Dentists

[Lucy]

Nice.

Like two half-eaten apples in a hanky.

HTH

[cailin maith]

Nice.

Like two good sized apples in a hanky.

Exactly like that!

[PAH]

That can happen, and was worse in its early days. One of the problems that can happen is that the pupil dilates beyond the laser ablation zone, at night, so you get shortsighted, or longsighted, depending on what you were, and might see halos/starbursts too.

Yeah she often saw stars when she was with me.

Not so much the halo.

[NotAllThere]

The cost of laser surgery and its effectiveness depends on the degree of short-sightedness (for example, it's completely useless for politicians). My wife still has some vision problems - highlighting and starbursts at night, but not enough to stop her driving me around - but the correction has remained 20:20. The surgeon warned that it could settle down to -3. This particularly surgeon specialised in very thin flaps, which, while needing more care in the early days, leads, he says, to better long term results. The guy was quite clearly mad; I'm sure I heard him say "And they call me crazy - bwhahahahahahah".

And it was about £2500 at the exchange rates then. And there was no-one in the UK who'd do it for close to that for her prescription.

Personally, though, I ain't lettin' no darn laser near my eyes.

[hyperD]

It's not unknown that when root canal surgery or something similarly expensive is required, to fly to Budapest, have the treatment, stay in a nice hotel etc. It's cheaper.

I'd agree with this BUT beware: make sure you are comparing like with like - my wife had implants and some high quality fake gnashers put in (private UK in the end) but some of the Hungarian dentists were not using the same high quality materials.

[TimberWolf]

The cost of laser surgery and its effectiveness depends on the degree of short-sightedness (for example, it's completely useless for politicians). My wife still has some vision problems - highlighting and starbursts at night, but not enough to stop her driving me around - but the correction has remained 20:20. The surgeon warned that it could settle down to -3. This particularly surgeon specialised in very thin flaps, which, while needing more care in the early days, leads, he says, to better long term results. The guy was quite clearly mad; I'm sure I heard him say "And they call me crazy - bwhahahahahahah".

And it was about £2500 at the exchange rates then. And there was no-one in the UK who'd do it for close to that for her prescription.

Personally, though, I ain't lettin' no darn laser near my eyes.

What was her prescription?

[Xenophon]

HTH

Fail

Exactly like that!

Win

[NotAllThere]

What was her prescription?

-9.5 in one eye, -8 in the other.

( I think that's the right sign for myopia )

[TimberWolf]

-9.5 in one eye, -8 in the other.

( I think that's the right sign for myopia )

Yep, -ve means a negative curvature (in the correcting lens), making it dispersive or less powerful. A positive lens (like a magnifying glass or the lens of the eye) is positive. Shortsighted people have a visual system that is too powerful, focussing rays in front of the retina, and a negaitive lens disperses these rays, increasing the focal length.

-9 is pretty shortsighted, and yeah you really need to go to the best with prescriptions like that. Regression is usually greatest in the first weeks and usually settles after 6 months or so, but any small amount of shortsightedness she might be left with can be useful. The thing to avoid is being made long-sightedness IMO, since this can be masked before the age of 45 'cos the lens of the eye will work like buggary to correct it while the patient thinks he/she has super vision.

[oracleslave]

-9.5 in one eye, -8 in the other.

( I think that's the right sign for myopia )

I am -6 in the one eye and thought that was bad!