SciShow: Why We Started Shooting Lasers Into People’s Eyeballs

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Content of the Lesson: Your eyes might malfunction, but lasers can fix them. Here's how researchers developed those procedures. Hosted by: Michael Aranda SciShow has a spinoff podcast! It's called SciShow Tangents. Check it out at http://www.scishowtangents.org ---------- Support SciShow by becoming a patron on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/scishow ---------- Huge thanks go to the following Patreon supporters for helping us keep SciShow free for everyone forever: Bd_Tmprd, Jeffrey Mckishen, James Knight, Christoph Schwanke, Jacob, Matt Curls, Sam Buck, Christopher R Boucher, Eric Jensen, Lehel Kovacs, Adam Brainard, Greg, Sam Lutfi, Piya Shedden, Katie Marie Magnone, Scott Satovsky Jr, Charles Southerland, Charles george, Alex Hackman, Chris Peters, Kevin Bealer ---------- Looking for SciShow elsewhere on the internet? Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/scishow Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/scishow Tumblr: http://scishow.tumblr.com Instagram: http://instagram.com/thescishow ---------- Sources: https://www.aao.org/eye-health/diseases/cataracts-iol-implants https://journals.lww.com/co-ophthalmology/Abstract/2015/07000/Macroeconomic_landscape_of_refractive_surgery_in.4.aspx https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/j.1442-9071.2010.02227.x https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S016164208534054X https://www.eyeworld.org/article-addressing-the-post-rk https://www.aao.org/bcscsnippetdetail.aspx?id=2564c621-eb7d-40c0-83d8-2210ddc4602f http://cer-server.ucsd.edu/LMI/TUTORIALS/excimer-primer.pdf https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/2233101/ https://www.webmd.com/eye-health/news/20180727/lasik-know-the-rewards-and-the-risks https://www.aao.org/eye-health/diseases/what-are-cataracts https://www.nei.nih.gov/learn-about-eye-health/eye-conditions-and-diseases/cataracts https://www.bmj.com/content/366/bmj.l4768 https://patents.google.com/patent/US4744360A/en https://www.healio.com/news/ophthalmology/20190607/laserphaco-probe-inventor-patricia-bath-md-dies https://cfmedicine.nlm.nih.gov/physicians/biography_26.html https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6139750/ https://www.healio.com/news/ophthalmology/20120331/cold-ultrasound-mics-as-safe-as-laser-and-effective-as-standard-phaco-surgeon-says https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/20820198/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7004285/ https://emedicine.medscape.com/article/1222168-overview https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/7945032/ https://rexhamiltonmd.com/informational-content/radial-keratotomy/ https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamaophthalmology/fullarticle/413851 https://visioneyeinstitute.com.au/eyematters/radial-keratotomy-rk-vision-correction-laser-eye-surgery https://www.nature.com/articles/eye1988137.pdf https://web.stanford.edu/~palanker/publications/History_of_Ophthalmic_Lasers.pdf https://www.ajo.com/article/S0002-9394(14)00167-6/pdf https://eyewiki.aao.org/Lasers_(surgery) https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007%2F3-540-26667-4_2 https://boweneye.co.nz/bowen-eye-news/types-laser-eye-surgery-how-choose https://www.oclvision.com/help-centre/a-z-common-eye-surgery-terminology/ https://www.hopkinsmedicine.org/wilmer/services/cornea/conditions_we_treat/nearsight.html https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1420724/ https://emedicine.medscape.com/article/1210914-overview https://lemelson.mit.edu/resources/patricia-bath https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_rQBy8nKI0I https://cataractcoach.com/2018/07/21/why-did-we-get-a-phaco-wound-burn/ https://invention.si.edu/innovative-lives-right-sight-patricia-bath Image Sources: https://www.istockphoto.com/photo/human-eye-gm477676109-35789882 https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:MEL60-UOC.jpg Philos2000 https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:%D0%AF%D0%BA%D0%BE%D0%B2%D1%87%D1%83%D0%BA_%D0%92.%D0%92._%D0%B8_%D0%A4%D1%91%D0%B4%D0%BE%D1%80%D0%BE%D0%B2_%D0%A1.%D0%9D.jpg left, Яковчук Виталий Васильевич https://www.istockphoto.com/photo/eye-disease-gm472653010-63543827 https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Patriciabath.jpg https://www.storyblocks.com/video/stock/laser-vision-correction---ophthalmology-surgery-wthout-anesthesia-close-up-h6fkb0gnkeiz9gn72p https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0f03ZKjtuKM https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Excimer_laser_1.jpg IoOALP https://www.istockphoto.com/photo/optometry-corneal-topographer-showing-an-eye-and-cornea-on-screen-gm873339618-243898376


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