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		<title>LASIK Re-treatment Rates; Post-op Dryness</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Jul 2010 13:34:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dave Allamby</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Anne, our enhancement rate is under 1% for short-sghted patients, and slightly higher for blended vision patients (distance plus reading correction). Our 20/20 or better rate is 99.4% for short-sight up to -9.00D.]]></description>
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<p>Anne asked:</p>
<blockquote><p>Hi Dave,<br />
I am in contact with your clinic re: having Lasik. I just have a couple of questions:</p>
<p>1/ What is your re-treatment rate?<br />
2/ How many dry eye cases are persistent/long-term?</p>
<p>Thanks, Anne</p></blockquote>
<p>Anne, our enhancement rate is under 1% for short-sghted patients, and slightly higher for blended vision patients (distance plus reading correction).<br />
Our &#8220;20/20 or better&#8221; rate is 99.4% for short-sighted patients up to -9.00D.</p>
<p>We have seen long-term dryness in a handful of patients, out of thousands of treatments. I find it is a rare problem when patients are properly screened, and treated pre-op if there is some dryness present. The way we keep these rates very low is by being vary careful on who we operate on, and excluding those with significant dry eye.</p>
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