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Glasses are the least risky. If you're using contacts however, you're taking more of a risk with your eyes than surgery.
by AdamN 7y ago
Glasses are the least risky. If you're using contacts however, you're taking more of a risk with your eyes than surgery.
- brokensegue 7y agocitation?
- dation 7y agohttps://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamaophthalmology/fullarticle/418674 https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamaophthalmology/fullartic... They calculated in 1/2000 lifetime chance of vision loss from contacts vs a 1/10000 chance for refractive surgery.
- JohnFen 7y agoI can't read the full article, so this might be incorrect. The summary seems to indicate that they're only considering vision loss, but most of the reports that I've heard of about lasik problems aren't vision loss as such, but the introduction of artifacts.