Summary Of All About Laser Eye Surgery

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In this article, "All About Laser Eye Surgery: Lasers? On your eyes? It Sounds More Dangerous Than It Is. Here's the scoop on laser eye surgery". Gerald D. Rogell claims "High blood glucose levels associated with poorly controlled diabetes can damage the retina, the thin sheet of tissue in the back of the eye that is like film in a camera"(50). Rogell discusses how people who decides to get laser treatment to know what diabetic eye disease is. He also talks about benefits and disadvantages of laser eyes so it is important to know about the history of retinopathy before the surgery. This source is helpful for my paper because it provides the historical context of the eye and stresses to people with vision impairment to do some research before

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