It is the question on the mind of anyone considering
Lasik or any Lasik alternative; "What are my likely Lasik results?" Answers
may be found in the results of the USAEyes Competence
Opinion Relative to Expectation (CORE) patient survey.
The USAEyes CORE patient survey is our
organization's primary tool for the evaluation of surgeons who
seek patient outcome certification. We send the USAEyes
CORE survey to a Lasik doctor's patients and compare the
responses to their peers. If the patient responses are within
the 90th percentile, the doctor's patient results are eligible
for certification by our organization. See
Lasik doctor
certification for details.
Preliminary results of the
USAEyes CORE Lasik patient survery at the US Food & Drug Administration (FDA) Ophthalmic Devices Panel
(ODP), which was considering quality of life issues after
Lasik.
- 99% report quality of life as expected, better, or much
better
- 98% day vision as expected, better, or much better
- 98% no complications or issues are seldom problematic
- 98% would recommend surgery to family and friends.
- 97% would have surgery again, knowing what they know now
- 96% wear corrective lenses as often as expected, less, or much
less than
- expected
- 96% report postop vision without lenses as expected, better,
or much better
- than expected when compared to preop vision with lenses
- 96% report overall quality of vision as expected, better, or
much better than
- expected
- 91% no complications at any time
- 91% night vision as expected, better, or much better
- 7% complications seldom problematic
– 91% would have surgery again
- 2% complications frequent or always problematic
– 22% would have surgery again
The previous are detailed results of the USAEyes CORE
patient survey for patients who stated they had laser vision
correction, including all laser vision correction techniques
(conventional or
wavefront custom
Lasik,
All-Laser Lasik,
PRK,
LASEK,
Epi-Lasik,
NearVision CK,
RLE, or any
refractive surgery procedure), stated they had no prior surgery, and
stated they are at least six months postop or greater.
USAEyes CORE
laser vision correction patient survey sample.
For additional Lasik results details including charts of
individual adverse event reprots, please see page
two.
