Yes, I finished my training in 1974 and embarked on a trip around the world to visit with some of the greatest surgeons of that era. While traveling the globe to meet the greatest surgeons, I learned about a new procedure in Moscow on how to correct nearsightedness called radial keratotomy. Yes, it's been 22 years since I began my quest to learn how to restore vision with refractive procedures, and I've learned a lot in those years. What we learned back then continues to help us now because refractive surgery isn't just one modality. Yes, that's right.
Laser is the latest development.
I compare the laser to the Pentium chip in comparison to RK, which is like the 286. In some instances, incisional keratotomy can be used to enhance and perfect laser surgery to give us a result that we can't achieve with either procedure alone. Yes, over the next few months and years you're going to hear a lot of hype about lasers. The laser companies have expensive machines they've sold to ophthalmologists, and ophthalmologists are going to have to do a large number of patients to make it pay. As an engineer who learned about lasers from the ground up, I can say that it's a wonderful device, but if not used properly there can be problems and complications.