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Refractive surgery sitesThe amount of information on PRK and LASIK is truly staggering and much of is is good quality. The best search engine that I have found is www.google.com and you can type in "lasik" (17,000 hits) or "lasik in the UK" ( 2110 hits) which will give you plenty to read. I have put in a few below, in no particular order or merit. Some have extensive links pages of their own. A lot of the information comes from the States. If you got this far on your own then I am sure that you can find more than enough information to keep you happy!
1. Lasik Institute- this is a very comprehensive American site on Lasik. It is funded by an educational grant from Summit Inc., one of the laser manufacturers, but seems to be independent of them. There is a particularly interesting discussion you can find via their links page between two groups of surgeons on the pros and cons of simultaneous bilateral lasik (the general norm in the USA) 2. "Surgical Eyes" - this is one of the "horror" sites, where all the patients with problems caused by surgery post their experiences. 3. British Society for Refractive Surgery - Professional body of Ophthalmologists and Optometrists in the UK. Good article on the state of refractive surgery in 2002 4.FDA - USA Food and Drug Administration site on LASIK - official government site 5. Eye
Surgery Education Council - an initiative
established by the American Society of Cataract and Refractive Surgery (ASCRS),
to which I belong, Like all American sources there is more about LASIK
than LASEK, although there is a swing back to surface ablation in the USA in
recent times. 6. All
About Vision - USA commercial site 7. Article
in "Eye News" by Andrew Brown (another UK ophthalmologist) on
lasik which is very good. 8. Personal pages by Lasik patients, Barry
Clark and Graham Wignall and "a
paranoid Lasik patient" - all from the UK 9. Home page of Simon
Levy - ophthalmologist in London who also performs Lasik. 10. Lasik
discussion group in the UK 11.
The
Royal College of Ophthalmology has a section
for patients on laser refractive eye surgery. This is excellent and unbiased,
and has just been updated (April 2003) 12. 13. www.lasik-eyes.co.uk/ - This is a UK site collecting various patients' experiences at different clinics.
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