I for one do. I have mentioned it before and will mention it again. Likley, a such technology will be based on orthoK or inherit key technology points from orthoK. It will attempt to minimize the inconvinences and shortcommings of orthoK and improve upon the benefits of orthoK. There has been clinical trials of "corneal molding" technology with results that last up to a month. Unfortunately some bugs were found and its back to the drawing board but once the bugs are resolved, itll be out for clinical trials again and if its a go, itll be ready for prime time! Theres at least 3 different alternatives to lasik in the "works", all of them safer than lasik in everyway. If any of you can wait a few short years, by all means do so! Lasik should have never been FDA approved or been available to the public because of all the bugs, problems, flaws and damage to every eye. Its thru greed that it got the "go ahead" Just like RK did and only once lasik replaced RK has the truth came out that RK was bad news! People are paying the price for it now with impaired vision, induced astigmatism, unstable fluctuating prescription thruout the day and hyperopic shift. Many RK patients are now in bifocals due to hyperopic shift and they cant see clearly at any distance! When the next best thing comes out, lasik will soon be swept under the rug, its flaws made public and admitted by lasik surgeons(some of those surgeons used to do RK, now they will tell you to stay away from RK!) For now, those surgeons will promote lasik as its highly profitable for them! In fact if you ask them if anything else is "comming" they will play dumb and say "not that I heard of" or perhaps "not anytime soon" Thats what they said when RK was the big thing and PRK was being privately expermented back in the late 1980s to early 1990s. I know a bunch of people who regretted getting RK and wish they had waited a few years more. I know one who wanted RK in 1992 and his optometrists were telling him to wait because better technology using lasers was soon due for prime time. History will repeat itself with new technology to dis/replace lasik. In the meantime, stick with glasses or get orthoK and sit tight!
