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stoy@lemmy.zip 2 days ago99% safe isn’t that safe, it just means that out of every hundred customer one will be injured.
So, looking at this page:
mariettaeye.com/…/lasik-eye-surgery-statistics/
1700000 lasik procedures are performed every year (estimate), and to give the treatment the best possible chances (and make it easier to do the math), let’s accept that it is 99% safe
This means that every year 17000 people are in some way injured by it.
That is not negligible…
Boomkop3@reddthat.com 2 days ago
It’s not 99% perfect 1% absolutely obliterated. That 1% is people with itchy or dry eyes for a bit afterwards. But yes, I could’ve pointed that out.
Heck, the 1% of the covid vaccine included people complaining they had to poop the next day :p
stoy@lemmy.zip 2 days ago
I see your point, but when you consider that eyeglasses have a 100% guarantee to not damage your eyes directly, that one percent risk becomes a huge extra risk.
Vedlt@lemmy.world 2 days ago
I mean, I’ve had my glasses break and scratch my cornea… The likelihood of that happening is probably less than 1%, but it’s definitely not 0%
stoy@lemmy.zip 2 days ago
That is why I specified “directly”, accidents happen, but the glasses won’t dammage your eyes just by wearing them