Thursday, October 9, 2014

Tech Article 10/10

Blindness could it be gone in the next 10 years?
  • All of our eyes deteriorate, in some way or another 
  • Of over 250 million people that suffer visual impairment around the world, however 4 in 5 cases preventable or curable
  •  280 million laser surgeries carried out to this date
  • The laser scans the eye indicating were little bumps are
  • These bumps could effect our vision 
  • They cut a flip in the cornea in surgery
  • Peel it back
  • A second laser is used to smooth down the bumps  

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