Informative On Lasik
Title: LASIK (laser assisted in situ-keratomileusis)
Specific Purpose: To inform my audience about the history, process, and advantage and disadvantage of LASIK.
Central idea: Although LASIK is a fairly new process, according to Dr. Stephen G. Slade; the surgery has been performed on more than 2 million patients in the United States alone.
Introduction
I. LASIK surgery is everywhere today; billboards, commercials, websites, and articles.
II. Majority are talking about it, who does not know at least one person who has inquired about the surgery to get rid of glasses and contacts.
III. But what is LASIK?
a. LASIK stands for laser assisted in situ keratomileusis.
b. Notice the word keratomileusis, which according to the Gale Encyclopedia of Surgery, is a surgical procedure when a thin segment of the cornea, which provides most of the eye's focusing power is sliced off with a microkeratome, is frozen, altered, and then replaced back on the cornea with a contact lens to hold it in place.
c. LASIK evolved from that procedure using excimer lasers to reshape the cornea instead of freezing it.
IV. Like half of you, I am fit to be a candidate for LASIK surgery.
a. I have worn glasses and contacts for 10 years now.
b. To reduce to dependency of glasses and contacts, LASIK can be considered a solution.
V. I would like to give you a brief overview on the history, process, and the advantages and disadvantages of LASIK.
Transition: Lets start with the history of LASIK.
Body
I. LASIK has a very interesting history.
A. LASIK has been performed internationally for 10 years.
1. Dr. Stephen Brint first performed it in the United States in 1991.
2. However, similar procedures used to reshape the cornea have been performed over 50 years ago.
B. Many pioneers contributed to the development of LASIK.
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