Comments on: LASIK Flap Disintegrates Upon Lifting for Enhancement

By: batthy

batthy — Tue, 26 Jan 2010 07:46:13 +0000

oooh… I’m sure …
oooh… I’m sure that was a dead person’s eye..

By: truenorthcorn

truenorthcorn — Tue, 26 Jan 2010 07:46:13 +0000

All of you who did …
All of you who did lasik are so stupid.

In the new Z–Laser instead of a blade as in traditional LASIK, they don’t even touch the flap. Getting rid of the blade eliminates many of the main risks from LASIK, when formerly the flap was cut with a fine blade

Haha, technology has moved on. LASIK will disappear in 10 years and replaced .
Thanks for being the guinea pigs of early technology. It’s really appreciated by future generations.

By: rad0radish

rad0radish — Tue, 26 Jan 2010 07:46:13 +0000

stop doing it to …
stop doing it to people!!!

By: msable26

msable26 — Tue, 26 Jan 2010 07:46:12 +0000

he probably …
he probably completed the procedure , put on a bandage contact lens and the patient is fine. This sirmcgowington knows nothing about eyes. Can you honestly believe that this guy knows how deep the cut was? he says 130 microns thick? impossible to say looking at the video. Even if this wasnt a pure PRK, it will be treated as such and the patient should do fine.

By: motodoc8

motodoc8 — Tue, 26 Jan 2010 07:46:12 +0000

This is not a LASIK …
This is not a LASIK case. This is a surface ablation case (PRK) in which the outer layer of the cornea is purposefully removed prior to application of the layer. Prior to what you see, the surgeon had used a well filled with ETOh on the outer layer to loosen it for removal, but they may have flushed it too early causing it to take extra effort to remove. LASIK is not for everyone but this is obvious misinformation.

By: oldsk00l

oldsk00l — Tue, 26 Jan 2010 07:46:12 +0000

Ok, I’m trying to …
Ok, I’m trying to get my head around this…
Is this before a corneal graft? Corneal transplant? There is no info on this video for what happens to the eye afterward. It’s obvious they are into the stromal bed, but why? Was there epithelial ingrowth? Some sort of structural problem with the cornea (ie collapsing)?

This video is sorta just FUD if you don’t have more info.

Plus I think it’s disingenuous because circumstantially there may be way more factors in play here….

By: Absinthemakesdaheart

Absinthemakesdaheart — Tue, 26 Jan 2010 07:46:12 +0000

He thinks the new …
He thinks the new laser candidates wont be guinea pigs. The only way to get good vision is healthy eyes and that can only be achieved by behavoral optometry where you do eye excersise along side reduced prescriptions. Hopefull there will be more of those in the future as they are hard to find now, even lasik victims can return to normal eyesight but it may take a year or two dont lose hope, and dont undergo surgery to fix the damage.

By: sirmcgowington

sirmcgowington — Tue, 26 Jan 2010 07:46:12 +0000

It’s not a PRK …
It’s not a PRK proceedure in any way shape or form.

That circular pattern on that patient’s cornea is well into the stromal bed and way beneath the epithelium.

The circular pattern was created by a microkeratome or a Hansatome at a depth of about 130 to 160 micrometers about 90 days prior to this attempted retreat!

I should know. I worked with the VISX Excimer laser for 4 years and saw as many as 60 eyes zapped per day.

What you have here is a flipping nightmare.

By: torero34

torero34 — Tue, 26 Jan 2010 07:46:12 +0000

I think this video …
I think this video is a scam,.Thats a regular PRK prcoedure where the epitelium is removed before the laser applicaiton.

By: sirmcgowington

sirmcgowington — Tue, 26 Jan 2010 07:46:12 +0000

Look at the eye …
Look at the eye movements from 7:10 to 8:40! This person is in fear, as they should be.

That doc spent 8:40 destroying that patient’s eye.

Even good docs can ruin your God-given eyes. Look at what a bad one can do.

I know a doc who created an incomplete flap. He used his scalpel to cut it the rest of the way. I saw that with my own eyes. That patient didn’t get to keep their VHS tape.

I wonder how this one got out.