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Should Laser Refractive Surgery Be Delayed? The Benefits in Deferring Laser Refractive Surgery Outweigh the Disadvantages
Arch Ophthalmol. 1998;116:667-668.
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THINK OF people you care about. Imagine them making an important economic decision on a subject they do not understand. Questions inevitably come to mind. Will the product they want to purchase be less expensive later? Does it have a good track history? Is it of high quality and durable? Will it soon be of higher quality and durability? Complicated answers will follow these questions. The only question with a simple answer, albeit deceptively simple, comes at the end of all the talk and confusion: Do you want to make the purchase now or wait?
The editors of the ARCHIVES specify a dilemma of this kind. Should someone have laser-based refractive eye surgery now or wait? Rather than answer that deceptively simple question yes or no, let's ask and then answer the more complex questions that precede the final decision. I will give those answers a cautionary spin as that . . . [Full Text of this Article] WILL THE COST OF SURGERY BE LOWER LATER?
TRACK HISTORY OF LASER PROCEDURES
ARE LASER-BASED PROCEDURES OF UNIFORMLY HIGH QUALITY?
ARE LASER-BASED PROCEDURES UNIFORMLY DURABLE AND STABLE?
WILL LASER-BASED PROCEDURES SOON BE OF HIGHER QUALITY AND DURABILITY?
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Should Laser Refractive Surgery Be Delayed?; There Is No Benefit to Deferring Laser Refractive Surgery
Robert K. Maloney and Ella G. Faktorovich
Arch Ophthalmol. 1998;116(5):669-672.
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