It found that nearly half of the study participants reported new visual symptoms after surgery. One of the studies cited was a paper by the US FDA published in the JAMA Ophthalmology journal last year.
While studies have shown that the surgery is usually safe and effective, fresh concerns about its potential risks, including impaired vision and chronic pain, were raised in a recent New York Times article. There are no formal statistics on the total number of procedures performed across all centres in Singapore. The Singapore National Eye Centre (SNEC), which carries out one of the highest volumes of refractive surgeries here, has conducted over 50,000 Lasik procedures in the last 20 years. The global personalised Lasik surgery market is estimated to reach US$3.69 billion (about S$5 billion) by 2022, according to a new report by Grand View Research, Inc. Since then, the procedure has become one of the most popular elective ophthalmologic procedures in the world. Post-Lasik woes have surfaced hand-in-hand with the approval in the late 1990s of the first excimer laser for Lasik eye surgery by the United States' Food and Drug Administration (FDA). She has to be hyper-vigilant when driving at night and, three years ago, started wearing spectacles to correct her shortsightedness of over 200 degrees. During my post-treatment follow-up, the doctor said it would go away but it did not," said the communications specialist.Ī decade on, the 28-year-old is still living with the side effects. "I thought it was a temporary symptom after Lasik, like dry eyes. Right after the procedure, which permanently alters the shape of one's cornea, the clear covering of the front of the eye, Ms Wee developed night blindness and started seeing halos around light sources. The Lasik surgery put an end to her severe shortsightedness but led to other vision woes. She was tired of wearing thick glasses that made her eyes look "microscopic" and battling recurrent eye infections from contact lens wear.
SINGAPORE - When she was 18, Ms Aza Wee Sile shelled out over S$2,000 to correct her 1,000-degree myopia.
0 kommentar(er)
