LASIK to replace contact Lens ?

Contact lenses that has been in use for correcting defective eye problems like long and short sightedness may be not be very safe after all, according to the news as published HERE.

It was said that "All eye doctors are aware of the potential dangers of contact lens infections. Tens of millions of Americans may be at risk of these serious infections for which there is no prevention. Basically everyone wearing lenses is at risk.

"Patients must remember that contact lenses are a medical devise and that you are placing a foreign body in your eye running the risk of an unpreventable infection," says Dr. Norman Saffra of Maimonides Hospital.

A Lancet study showed that people who wear daily contact lenses run the risk of 1 in 100 of developing a bacterial keretitis, an infection that can lead to a loss of vision. Patients who abuse contacts by wearing them overnight or improperly caring for their lenses have an even larger risk."

But now it has been confirmed that LASIK (an acronym for Laser-assisted In Situ Keratomileusis) has come to rescue of all contact lens wearers. It is reported a careful applications on properly selected patients is safer than wearing contact lenses. Surgeons who use the safest and most advanced lasers and who utilize the sophisticated screening technologies provide an unprecedented level of safety, said Drs. Joseph and Jeffrey Dello Russo. "The widely held belief that contact lenses are safer has been challenged," announced Dr. Walter Mathers, one of the study's researchers. Lens wearers are more likely to develop complications that lead to loss of vision than patients who underwent LASIK in 2006.

Therefore, contact lense users can now eaves a sign of relieve as the LASIK takes control of the correcting defective eyes.