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...reality check. "LASIK is a surgical procedure with all the attendant risks of any surgical procedure," says Dr. Mark Mannis, a professor of ophthalmology at the University of California at Davis, who has performed the operation on a weekly basis for the past four years. "It is highly successful in the vast majority of well-chosen cases, but"--and here you have to pay close attention--"each of those words I said is very important." The best candidates, he emphasizes, are those adults whose sight is only moderately distorted, whose vision is stable and who have no other eye problems...
...THINK LONG AND HARD ABOUT WHY YOU WANT TO HAVE YOUR EYES LASERED. "This is surgery on the only pair of eyes you have," says Dr. George Waring, founder of the Emory Vision Correction Center in Atlanta. Only you can decide whether the benefits are worth the small but very real risk of irreversible damage to your eyesight. If you're satisfied with your glasses or contacts, then you're better off leaving well enough alone. You can always change your mind later, when you've had a chance to weigh the improvements that future technology will bring...
...tense. A searing sensation rips into my face. As the laser traces tiny spider veins across my cheek, zapping them into oblivion, I hear a faint pop, pop, pop. It begins to sting. Yeow, I swear silently. Is that burning flesh I smell? Hey, Doc? Owww. Yeowww! DOC! Dr. Harold Lancer, my Beverly Hills dermatologist, is laughing. He had warned me to take some Valium before the procedure (or risk scaring off his celebrity clients, no doubt). I can't stand any more. "Ye-ooowww!!" I yell out loud. Then it's over. I leave with a red Etch...
...Soleil tan will doubtless be turning even more to lasers, as the years go on, to try to reverse the damaging effects of sun. "What we're facing in American health is the problem of longevity, women living into their 90s, men to their 80s," says cosmetic-dermatologic surgeon Dr. Edward Lack, a board member of the American Academy of Cosmetic Surgery. Most of the 45-to-70-year-old laser-surgery patients Lack sees in his Des Plaines, Ill., office are seeking facial resurfacing, a laser procedure that can erase fine lines, sunspots and broken vessels while tightening...
...even these supposedly gentler lasers can sting and, in inexperienced hands, burn and scar if they penetrate too deep. Worse, up to 20% of CO2-laser patients (and possibly some Erbium ones as well) risk ending up with whitened skin one to two years after the procedure, according to Dr. Jay Burns, a laser specialist at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center...