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USA TODAY
June 28, 2001

"If you promote it as if it's a haircut, then you're not being genuine. That's one of the reasons there are more lawsuits, simply because people's expectations are that it's low-risk," says Dr. Roy Rubinfeld of Chevy Chase, Md., who's had the procedure himself and performed it on his wife. "This is surgery. As with all surgeries, the results are dependent on the skills, experience, judgment and ethics of the surgeon."

"Somewhere between 50% and 70% of those patients [problems] I can greatly improve, " says eye surgeon Rubinfeld, who is part of a growing new sub industry: doctors who care for patients trying to correct laser eye surgery complications.

"There are a number of problems that can be helped a great deal or eliminated, " Rubinfeld says.

"A transplant will repair almost all LASIK problems, but it is not to be entered into lightly," Rubinfeld says. "It takes along time for vision to heal, about a year. And it has its own set of risks, of rejection and infection."