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  2. LASIK - Wikipedia

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    In the United States, the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved LASIK for people 18 years of age and older, but the American Academy of Ophthalmology recommends people wait until age 21 because vision needs to stabilize. [11] [12] More importantly the patient's eye prescription should be stable for at least one year prior to ...

  3. Laser blended vision - Wikipedia

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    Laser blended vision is a laser eye treatment which is used to treat presbyopia (ageing eyes; [1] progressive loss of the ability to focus on nearby objects) or other age-related eye conditions. [1] It can be used to help people that simply need reading glasses, and also those who have started to need bifocal or varifocal spectacle correction ...

  4. Small incision lenticule extraction - Wikipedia

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    In LASIK, the surgeon performs a 270-degree, 20 mm long incision, while in SMILE the so-called "side cap cut", which is the incision through which the surgeon extracts the lenticule, is usually about 4 mm long. [5] Currently in the US the procedure is only approved for nearsightedness, but is used for hypermetropia too in other countries. [6]

  5. Refractive surgery - Wikipedia

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    The inlay is placed under a LASIK flap or in a stromal pocket. [18] [19] Using mid-IR and UV lasers for the treatment of presbyopia by scleral tissue ablation was first proposed and patented by J.T. Lin, Ph.D. in US patents #6,258,082 (in 2001) and #6,824,540 (in 2004).

  6. Health care prices in the United States - Wikipedia

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    The U.S. government intervenes less actively to force down prices in the United States than in other countries. Stanford economist Victor Fuchs wrote in 2014: "If we turn the question around and ask why healthcare costs so much less in other high-income countries, the answer nearly always points to a larger, stronger role for government.

  7. Dress Codes: Why Santa Claus wears a red and white suit - AOL

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    Thomas Nast, the Harper’s Weekly cartoonist who gave us donkeys for Democrats and elephants for Republicans, played an instrumental role in envisioning Santa.He first drew him in 1863, during ...