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Patient preference--contact lens or radial keratotomy?
Refractive & Corneal Surgery
|July 1, 1992
Abstract
Background:
Past clinical experience has suggested that patients are more satisfied after radial keratotomy than when wearing contact lenses.
Methods:
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.
Results:
The vast majority (93%) preferred radial keratotomy to the handling of contact lenses.
Conclusions:
The desire to be independent of optical correction is a sufficient indication for refractive surgery.