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<blockquote data-quote="SoonerP226" data-source="post: 3506257" data-attributes="member: 26737"><p>If you're talking about what I said, that's all about legal definitions, not medical definitions. In LASIK, at least as how it was presented to me, they cut a "flap" into the outer layers of your cornea, use a laser to reshape the cornea underneath, then lay the flap back down. To the state of Oklahoma, that doesn't (or, at least, didn't) constitute a surgical procedure, but if you're a-cuttin' on my eyeballs, it sure as shootin' does to me...</p><p></p><p>My only guess as to why it wasn't considered surgery is that the cornea is unique in that it gets its oxygen supply directly from the atmosphere rather than from the bloodstream, so there are no blood vessels cut during the procedure.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="SoonerP226, post: 3506257, member: 26737"] If you're talking about what I said, that's all about legal definitions, not medical definitions. In LASIK, at least as how it was presented to me, they cut a "flap" into the outer layers of your cornea, use a laser to reshape the cornea underneath, then lay the flap back down. To the state of Oklahoma, that doesn't (or, at least, didn't) constitute a surgical procedure, but if you're a-cuttin' on my eyeballs, it sure as shootin' does to me... My only guess as to why it wasn't considered surgery is that the cornea is unique in that it gets its oxygen supply directly from the atmosphere rather than from the bloodstream, so there are no blood vessels cut during the procedure. [/QUOTE]
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