Artigo Revisado por pares

Patient Preference-Contact Lens or Radial Keratotomy?

1992; Slack Incorporated (United States); Volume: 8; Issue: 4 Linguagem: Inglês

10.3928/1081-597x-19920701-14

ISSN

1938-2391

Autores

L Haverbeke,

Tópico(s)

Ocular Surface and Contact Lens

Resumo

Past clinical experience has suggested that patients are more satisfied after radial keratotomy than when wearing contact lenses.One-hundred patients who had worn contact lenses prior to receiving radial keratotomy compared subjectively these two methods for correcting myopia. The postoperative follow up ranged from 3 months to 13 years.The vast majority (93%) preferred radial keratotomy to the handling of contact lenses.The desire to be independent of optical correction is a sufficient indication for refractive surgery.

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