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I think they'll have to come up with a less scary name for it though.

Yeah, but knowing the analagous name for lasik is 'slicing off your cornea then gluing it back on', this one is immediately more appealing.

Is it even glued on I thought it just put there and sticks through adhesive forces

it's placed into a flap that is cut into corneal tissue.

the flap size itself keeps the lens in place; the elasticity of the underlying tissue itself, until it heals into an encapsulation.

the surgery videos of that procedure make me squeamish unlike other surgery videos. Watching an eyeball get deflated/inflated with liquid pressure from the surgeon is just un-nerving to me; not as bad as watching a glaucoma surgery -- but up there.

The place I had it done cuts the flap in one room, then has you walk (suddenly legally blind) to another room for the actual correction. A very interesting experience that cannot be adequately captured on video.

That would be a huge red flag for me. How is that even sterile or safe? What happens if you fall and need hospital care on the walk from one room to the other? Are you now blind until the hospital care is complete?

Short walk to a connected room and someone held my hand. That said, was definitely a surprise to me.

More than "gently cooking your corneal proteins with an electric current until they fit"?

I heard about this research six years ago and at the time it was called "molecular surgery".

i mean the competition is lasik, which sounds like beaming a laser into you eye, doesn't really sound safe either

The long name (Laser assisted in Situ Keratomileusis) can sound a bit scary too... :p

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