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Fiction: Laser vision correction is so new that no one really knows if there are any long-term side effects.
Fact: Although laser vision correction became widely available in the United States in the mid-1990s, the technology was first developed in the early 1980s. The first patient was treated in the United States in 1987. To date, no long-term ill effects of the procedure are known.
This guy is an expert witness for LASIK, yet he doesn't know of any long-term ill effects of the procedure?
Here, Dr. Slade, just type in "lasik" and start reading.
www.pubmed.gov
I'm sure you have access to full texts, so read them, don't skim. You have a lot of catching up to do. There are 2,669 articles. Many of them discuss long-term ill effects, such as ectasia, retinal detachment, infection resulting in corneal transplant, DLK resulting in severe scarring or flap melt, irregular astigmatism resulting in loss of BCVA, etc.