Laser Eye surgery

Call me old fashioned, but laser eye correction surgery sounds like a ridiculous and dangerous kind of unnecessary procedure. We live in a world where, no matter how good the technology is, people are always looking for bigger, better, and faster, and the thing with laser eye surgery is really no exception. It is not enough that people can have glasses, or even contacts that, when worn, make their vision perfect. Now they have to get unnecessary laser eye surgery to make it so that there vision is perfect all of the time. Now, this surgery costs many times as much as glasses, and like all surgery, it poses possible risks. Because it is so new, no one knows for sure what laser eye surgery will do in the long run, and it is possible that it may have no adverse consequences.

But it is also possible that, in a few years, the eyeballs of everyone who gets it will collapse with no warning. I am not suggesting that this is going to happen no matter what to anyone who has laser eye surgery, but what I am saying is that it is not worth the risk. Surgery is inherently dangerous and risky, with such possibilities as infection, tissue scarring, and innumerable other dangers which can afflict anyone who undergoes it. Is it really worth risking your health to have perfect vision when, in reality, you can see just fine with glasses and no laser eye surgery.

Personally, I am a big fan of the idea of 'good enough'. We have a society that practically worships the - next big thing - and so there is no stopping people from jumping on the latest technology when, in practice, it might not do them any good. I have been wearing glasses for years. I have actually had them since I was eight years old and, besides being teased a little bit in school, I can not see how they were ever that much of an inconvenience. They corrected my vision well enough, and began to look even fashionable as I got older.

Really, who needs surgery when we have a perfectly good technology to correct vision that has been available for over a hundred years? In all that time, before laser eye surgery, optometrists have had the chance to perfect glasses and develop contacts, so that now there is no almost anyone can use them to see clearly.

Article by G.B. Flintwood an independent writer for Healthy Help Files on Eye Health Issues.

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