A FLAP
THAT NEVER HEALS:
This
flap never heals & 80% of the corneal nerves are permanently
damaged for the rest of your life.
WARNING:Are
you one of the "post lasik victims" that is being lied to by
your lasik doctor telling you: "that your eyes
healed differently, the dry eye throbbing pain is normal, the
double vision, starbursts, halos, loss of contrast, and
depression are also normal, and that you are one of those
unlucky patients in the 5% category, and that it wasn't the
doctor's fault?"
Then the 1st thing
you need to do is: Audio Tape your visit with each doctor lying
to you as this will come in very handy in court so that everyone
will see how they lie to protect each other...The 2nd thing you
need to do is get an attorney who has already won lasik cases
for patients. The 3rd thing you need to do, is NOT do
anymore procedures as each time you are risking thinning out
your corneas and this could result in a condition called "ECTASIA"
which could end up requiring a "Corneal Transplant..."
Dean Andrew Kantis exposes the lies of Lasik so you don't make
this mistake!!
Lasik Should Immediately Be Discontinued Because It Is
Deadly!!
The FDA, Physicians, & Medical Companies Are Lying To The Misinformed Public
& This Website Exposes The Truths & Lies About Their
Corruption...
Other Alarming Lasik News
Doctors Should Take The Time To Explain In Detail To Every
Patient:
An alarming 35+%
of eyeballs that had Lasik have many of the following systems &
60% of all of the people I have asked about their Lasik Procedure
told me that they had "dry eye syndrome" or that their "nighttime
vision is terrible along with the following:"
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This website is
dedicated to the innocent
victims below of Nick Caro, Saint George Vision Center out
of Chicago, IL, & to all of the other Lasik Victims that suffer daily,
because of such an "INHUMANE" procedure, a corrupt FDA
that doesn't even care & Medical Device Companies & Doctor's Greed for their own families wealth at the expense of
others...
Lying medical statistics, doctors giving patients 5 pieces of
Lasik Information from a 100 piece puzzle, an FDA who won't
discipline doctors nor take responsibility for all of the
petitions coming in from every state from hurt patients, and an
absolute "in humane" surgery called Lasik that doctors and the
medical companies know, creates permanent corneal nerve damage
(estimated at 80%), cutting through the most important
structural membrane known as Bowman's Membrane responsible for
maintaining the regular shape of ones eyes, and lastly the Lasik
Flap never heals...
Lasik Doctors: Don't
you think that these are important details to include in your
"sales pitch" so that you can sleep at night? Lasik Doctors: WE will spend every
available minute issuing valid complaints until a doctor is
brought down for due cause & then publicize it OVER, AND OVER,
AND OVER, to the maximum extent allowed by law until you lose
your license to butcher other innocent victim or patient!!
Dean
Andrew Kantis
"Exposing the REAL STORY and TRUTHS about why Lasik is the worst
known medical procedure ever invented...how the doctors do NOT
care about you, but rather only about your
wallet...unfortunately this is how it is. You've been
warned!"
About Us & Why This Website Was
Created...
Learn about why Dean Andrew Kantis started this website, why
he's under attack by the Lasik Industry, how his own Doctor Nick
Caro, ruined his vision, then tried to sue Dean Andrew Kantis for $2
million but lost!
1. Patients are not receiving
"true informed consent."
2. Patients are being told lie after lie after lie, by the
greedy Lasik Doctors that "it was their own eyes that healed
differently and that it wasn't the doctor's fault, or the laser
company's fault such as Visx or Alcon, and oh well...it may take up
to 7 years to fully heal"
3. Patients are suicidal as there is no known cure for Lasik.
4. Patients are being sued for websites such as this one that
exposes a rat and their lies.
5. Patients are being pushed outside the Statute of
Limitations to SUE each doctor because the doctors protect each other and
lie.
6. I believe the lasik flap never heals and is a permanent
problem for every patient's eyes killing 80% of your only corneal
nerves.
7.
-Find An Attorney To SUE Your Lasik Doctor
Before The 12 Month Statute of Limitations Runs Out On Your Only
Chance To Sue-
Here is an honest assessment written by an EX-LASIK SURGEON, who
remains anonymous, and wants to tell you the truths:
Preparing for the Surgery
Which light do I look at? The
Green one or the Red one during the procedure?? Below was
written by an Ex-Lasik Doctor
who refused to sell his soul to the Devil...This is a pretty good
idea of the truth if you are willing to read and listen...
Can you imagine a truthful LASIK seminar?
"Good evening ladies and gentlemen. On the day of your surgery, I
will first stretch your eye open with a metal device that has the
potential for causing nerve and goblet cell damage. Your goblet
cells make proteins that keep your eyes lubricated. Ladies, remember
how you were always told to be very gentle with the tissue around
your eyes? Forget that, I will stretch the daylights out of it. You
may have a sagging lid or eyes that don't close all the way when I'm
done.
Then I'll apply a huge amount of suction to pull up floaters and
potentially damage your retina and optic nerve! Next I will sever
your corneal nerves with a knife that often leaves metal debris
behind in your eye for the rest of your life. You will also have
permanent nerve loss with the potential of painful dry eye. I
usually tell people this is temporary, if I tell them about dry eye
at all - but that's sure not true for everybody and I know it. It is
just so hard to tell who will have dry eye problems, and if I were
honest about the risks nobody would have surgery. Sometimes even
really young males who are not in what we surgeons consider a
high-risk group get it. I don't understand this at all, but it
doesn't slow me down! You will experience some dry eye for sure, and
perhaps permanent dry eye. If not now, maybe later in life when you
get older, or go through menopause if you're female. Females are at
higher risk for dry eye anyway. I should probably tell them all
this, but that's bad for business too.
Oh, by the way...lots of junk gets left behind inside your flap. You
can get inflammation from this junk called DLK that could make you
go blind! After I have cut your corneal nerves, I will fry some more
of them with an imperfect, fluctuating laser device that isn't
really designed to treat something round like an eye. Your corrected
area will be smaller usually than I had hoped, especially if you
have astigmatism and/or a high correcton. But hey - they are your
eyes and not mine. Corrected area too small? Kiss your night vision
goodbye! Whenever it is dark, you will have some seriously bad
vision.
Prominent doctors have stopped doing LASIK because they realized it
has problems, but I don't know what else to do with myself right now
and I like the money. I REALLY started pushing LASIK hard when
medicare drastically cut the reimbursement I would receive to do
cataract surgery!
Where was I.... OH! After I fry your eyeball with the laser, I'll
put the flap back down and that's where random chance takes over.
Sure, ALL patients end up with a wrinkled flap that's sort of like a
Ruffles potato chip. But some people have VERY irregular healing
that screws up their vision a lot. It is impossible to tell with my
lame tools (an aberrometer at best) if your problem is underneath
the flap or in the flap itself... so some people are made WORSE in
retreatment. For this and other reasons.
Hey, did I tell you that LASIK creates imperfections in your eye
called higher order aberrations? We don't really understand their
impact on visual quality fully, aside from the fact that many of you
do have poor vision that is associated with these larger higher
order aberrations. Especially at night. We give you those starbursts
and halos that rob you of your enjoyment of evening forever, right
here in our clinic! If I tell you that wavefront or custom wavefront
doesn't increase these aberrations, on average - I'm LYING! Shame on
me! Yes, I know all about LASIK-induced aberrations, and was just
keeping it to myself because I know you would RUN SCREAMING if YOU
knew!
You won’t be hearing me tell you about loss of contrast sensitivity
(everything is sort of dimmer and less distinct) but there are
experts out there who say that all patients have this after LASIK. I
don’t measure your contrast sensitivity so that I can pretend it’s
not an issue. Good luck finding things in dark drawers and closets.
Also, your vision may be less ‘crisp’ after LASIK than before with
your glasses. For life. We think this is from the higher order
aberrations, but we like to keep this quiet, too. Shhhhhhhh.
If you have large pupils, thin corneas, a large correction ... watch
out. You are at higher risk for a poor outcome. You deserve to have
all of this explained to you clearly. But I may not warn you about
your personal risk profile because I want as much money as possible.
Again, the truth just seems to scare the customers away.
What I call an enhancement is really another surgery I sometimes
have to do because LASIK is imprecise and I'm just guessing what
kind of correction you will get. I have very little control over the
situation, but you'd never know it by my confident demeanor! I don't
have the guts to call a second surgery an 'enhancement' when I'm
with my colleagues because they know better. It's a special
euphemism just for patients, who don't.
Are you near 40? You may already be experiencing difficulty with
your close reading. Being nearsighted gives you the ability to see
close things later into life if you just take your glasses off, or
look under them. This late life 'gift' of myopia is something I will
take away. LASIK corrects your distance vision at the expense of
your close vision if you are over 40. Which do you do more, read and
look at the computer, and work with things that are close to you...
or do you spend most of your time golfing (someone else will have to
keep score) or in a tower looking off into the distance for forest
fires?
Remember me telling you that LASIK is imprecise? Even a slight
overcorrection can take years of comfortable close reading away from
you! Imagine suddenly not being able to read your watch, your cell
phone, even trim your nails or see your food clearly without finding
those darned reading glasses. This is why people over 40 are more
likely to be dissatisfied with their LASIK. I know this, and I could
easily demonstrate what it is like to lose your near vision with a
trial contact lens to help you make an informed decision, but 10
minutes of my time vs. a lifetime of regret for you? Well, my time
is valuable.
Since there is often some regression after LASIK (reversal of the
treatment) I sometimes overcorrect my patients slightly. If they
can't read their computer screen clearly for several months it
doesn't affect me! Your vision could take 6 months to stabilize, and
you will have to deal with whatever vision you end up with and the
changes that happen, perhaps with multiple pairs of glasses, usually
at your expense. If you end up having an (ahem) 'enhancement' later,
your changing vision could keep you busy, head-achy, bothered by eye
strain and broke from buying glasses for a couple of years. Maybe
longer. Does LASIK simplify your life? Maybe not.
I usually keep the post-op instructions away from you until it's too
late because they might scare you off. Also sometimes I may give you
your consent forms immediately before your surgery so that you will
feel rushed, pressured, and go through with a surgery you may
decline if you had proper time to study your materials.
If you are myopic, your cornea will be lumpy but flattened after
surgery, and it will be harder to keep your corneal surface healthy
and moist as a result. A healthy eye has a smooth, round surface.
Yours won't be like that. And forget about wearing regular soft or
hard contact lenses if you have a higher correction. Your corneal
surface will be WAY too flattened and oddly shaped for those. You
will have to do some hard work with an experienced hard lense fitter
to get specially shaped hard lenses and you may not be able to
tolerate the lenses anyway because, hey - I cut your nerves and
fried more of them. Remember? Those nerves control the comfortable
wetting of your eye. So you may be too dry. Just live with your bad
vision in this case, and don't expect any sympathy from me. I will
brush you off, abandon your continued care...even try to paint you
as irrational - I'll do anything I can to make you go away so that I
won't be bothered.
Oh, you say you are hyperopic? Your surgeries are much more
complicated and prone to failure. If you're not happy with your
vision and need to wear hard contact lenses to get back some visual
quality - bad news... the lens fitting process for you is even
harder than for former myopes.
Your cornea is not like a piece of skin that will heal back together
when it is cut. Your LASIK flap will only heal around the edges a
bit, and be covered over by a thin layer of epithelium. So it can
easily be lifted years later by a surgeon with a simple tool, or be
amputated accidentally by a finger poke, air bag, tree branch, or
sports accident. At any time, for the rest of your life. You will
always have a split cornea after LASIK!
Speaking of flaps, and vulnerable weak corneas... did I tell you
about the bulging part? Oh, this is priceless. You are going to lose
about 1/3 of the mechanical strength of your cornea with this
surgery! We surgeons disagree about how much tissue you need to
retain to be safe from eye bulging, or ectasia. We usually keep this
disagreement to ourselves, however, because again, we don't want to
scare the customers. Some people need a corneal transplant when
we're finished with them because their corneas are just too weak to
support the pressure from inside their eyes after surgery. Almost
all of us who have done a lot of surgery have patients like this,
but you can see by the lack of LASIK surgeon suicides in the
media.... that we can STILL LIVE WITH OURSELVES! Isn't that
remarkable???
Federal trade commission regulations specify that when we advertise
a medical procedure we must also list possible complications and
side effects. We ignore this rule because nobody is enforcing it.
Call us for an appointment!"
_________________
Let's tell patients the truth!
Dean
Andrew Kantis
"Exposing the REAL STORY and TRUTHS about why Lasik is the worst
known medical procedure ever invented...how the doctors do NOT care
about you, but rather only about your wallet...unfortunately this is
how it is. You've been warned!"
This website was created
by Dean Andrew Kantis Post Lasik Patients To Inform The Public About The Devastating
Problems With All Lasik Procedures Because
The Doctors Won't Tell
You The Truths About Lasik & What Many Are Calling...BLOOD
MONEY!!
Truth #1: The Lasik Flap Never Heals. Truth #2: Lasik Dr's Aren't Giving Informed Consent Truth #3: Lasik Dr's Are Suing Patients To Quiet Them Truth #4: Lasik Dr's Are Reusing Blades To Save Money Truth #5: The FDA Can't Discipline A Doctor Truth #6: Dept of Regulation CAN Discipline A Doctor
Truth #7: You Are Guaranteed To Have Dry Eye Truth #8: There Is NO KNOWN CURE To Help Fix Lasik
Truth #9: Many Patients Are Suicidal & Lives
Ruined Truth#10: Lasik Destroys 80% Of The Corneal Nerves
This Video
Showing Doctors & Medical Laser Companies Lying To
The Patients About False Success Rates:
Finally An
Honest Doctor Warning The World That Lasik Is NOT A Good
Idea: WATCH THIS & LEARN:
Many unethical doctors and their family members have tried
to quiet my tone for having this website, but were not found
successful by the Illinois Cook County Court Judge in June,
2006. The purpose of this website is to protect
everyone out there from Lasik, & the long term damages that
THEY DO KNOW about. In other words, this website was
created for educational purposes, so that you will know which questions to ask
your potential Lasik Doctor, both PRE and POST surgery.
This sounds fair right? Who are you going to hear the
truth from?
FDA &
Doctors Are NOT Informing You, So I Will:
Doctors "swear
a medical oath to do what's in the best interest of the patient
and not their pocketbook..." Google search more on the "Medical Oaths &
Ethics" that I and others like me should have received:
-Hippocratic
Oath - Classical and modern versions- LIES, LIES, & LIES!!
First & Foremost,
Lasik Is Never Going To Be Safe
& Doctors Need To Start Informing Each Potential Patient That The
Flap Never Heals & About Dry Eye Becoming An Issue For Just About
Everyone.
You are "electing" to cut the phone lines that go from
the Eye to the Brain, and most get damaged by Lasik and
never regain the connection, so now when your Eye sends
a message to your Brain "that your eyes are dry and for
your Brain to send some tears," your Brain doesn't
answer because there is now NO FULL CONNECTION
RESTORED!!
You are still dealing with an imprecise corneal or
aberration map, laser program, registration, alignment,
pulse delivery, tracking system, etc, etc. and the
variability of human tissue including biomechanical
response, hydration, healing response, etc...Most
doctors push Lasik because it is a fast 10 minute procedure that
is most PROFITABLE TO THE DOCTOR, & the Doctors know that it causes
more harm to the patient's Cornea!!
THE DOCTORS KNOW THAT MOST PATIENTS WOULDN'T WANT TO DO "PRK/TRANS-EPI/LASEK"
type of procedures because it would be so much "harder to
sell" to the patients & that the doctors know that most
patients would have to do (1) eye at a time over the course
of 1-2 years, & that would hurt their greedy wallets now
wouldn't it!! God forbid they have to drive a Honda!!
Think about the underlying values, ethics, & level of
integrity.
I
don't even know any of you, but I care that much about you
and your families! Dr. Nicholas Charles Caro, tried to
"quiet me" by trying to sue me to the tune of $2 million
dollars (
-Nick Caro
tries to quiet unhappy patient by suing his own patient for
$2 million AFTER patient complains to authorities!
) on September 20th, 2005 because I listed lawsuit
after lawsuit after lawsuit about this SICK man, & I sure would
have been interested to know these statistics (poor ones)
prior to having him perform any type of surgery on anyone I
know or love, not to mention for my own well being.
I
and many of thousands of others like me all over the world,
already know that Lasik is NOT good for you and we all are
actively spreading the news so that you know the truth.
But many doctors don't like the idea of this because it is
hurting their business profits & their "country club
lifestyles," in that the Lasik Doctors believe
it's okay to make money on misery.
In other words, some of these Lasik Doctors would rather "take the risk on
ruining your eyesight knowing what really happens," rather
than taking the time to tell you all of the facts, properly
change new blades for each eye and not reuse them on other
patients to save $60 bucks, & perform all of the right tests
so that every patient is treated the way the doctor would
want to have been treated, versus rushing patients through
the procedure in 10 minutes like a herd of cattle going
through the "slaughter house."
And NOT perform Lasik & start
encouraging other surgeons to do the right thing too!! Lead by
example!!
GREED IS NOT
GOOD HERE IN AMERICA, AND THIS IS TERRIBLE!!
Just because
one doctor wants to play "BIG SHOT" by running big Lasik
volumes through ones own practice to try to impress upon his
peers "HOW WELL HE'S DOING," is really demonstrating "HOW
MISERABLE OF A PERSON HE/SHE" is...
How someone can make a
"trade off" with the DEVIL is beyond my understanding and
integrity. But this is the case. On one hand you
have MONEY, and on the other hand you have ONE'S ENTIRE
FUTURE FILLED WITH BIRTHDAYS, WEDDINGS, SPECIAL EVENTS,
SIGHTS OF BEAUTIFUL, TRAVELS ABROAD & all done with your
only SET OF EYES...Don't ever deprive someone of this!! Unfortunately, many doctors in America know that most of us
are "gullible" & want the "magic pill" instead of doing the
tough things in life like suffer with "contacts or glasses."
Many of these Lasik Doctors FEED on this by making
promises of 20/15 vision, flat out lying to patients, spending more
time on swiping the patients credit card for $3,000 a pop, when they
should be spending the quality of time informing their patients
about the seriousness of the decision at hand in allowing a Lasik
Doctor to permanently damage the nerve tissues of one's own cornea &
creating a FLAP that never heals!!
Example: THE LASIK FLAP NEVER
HEALS & PERMANENTLY DAMAGES 80% OF THE CORNEAL NERVES FOR
LIFE...(DID ANY OF YOUR LASIK
DOCTORS COME OUT AND VOLUNTARILY POINT THIS OUT?) doctors are NOT properly
trained for "patient selection and screening," and that
there are KNOWN PERMANENT LONG - TERM EFFECTS from having Lasik, and that it's just a matter of time when they start
showing up for each individual person, such as DRY EYE
SYNDROME.
This is pretty much guaranteed at some time
in your life, a Post Lasik patient, will develop this...not
to mention the HOA's which stands for "Higher Order
Aberrations" which are mostly induced by Lasik...Don't
ever plan again on opening your eyes under water in a
chlorinated pool ever again!! -Lasik Chat Forums-
OR
-Lasik
Truths & History-...
Don't believe me?
Ask your Lasik Doctor to
measure your Tear Layer, by asking him/her to perform a
-Schirmers Score Test-,
both BEFORE & AFTER your Lasik procedure & you be the judge!
Then measure that each year and watch it go down the tubes.
Ladies, then wait until you hit "Menopause" so that you can
really begin to feel what "DRY EYE PAIN" feels like...
Secondly:
Lasik in my opinion, is the worst thing that you could do to
alter your virgin eye by electing to make it irregular...Any Lasik
Doctor that does this procedure on his own children, to me,
clearly does NOT understand what the detriments and long
term effects are regarding Lasik.
Is
this the FDA's Fault you ask? Probably so! The Lasik Epidemic is simple in that there are a lot of good Lasik
Doctors and that there are a lot of poor Lasik Doctors, but even then a
good doctor is going to have mistakes because the procedure
itself is WRONG, WRONG, WRONG!
Europe is ahead of the USA in terms of
Laser Refractive Surgery. Most of the best clinics do NOT offer Lasik anymore, but only do "surface treatments." Why is this you
ask...We "have had it" with the phony-greedy Nick Caro
Family's of the world that think it is okay to "lie, cheat and
steal" from patients, because they have a title called "MD or
Doctor."
But then these same doctors cry like a bunch of
babies and complain about websites
such as this one because we "expose" a "liar" for what they
truly are and then have them investigated by every department to the
maximum extent allowed by law, in each state!!. Lies
such as NOT telling each and every potential Lasik Patient that the
"FLAP NEVER HEALS & about ALL known long term problems!"
Dean Andrew Kantis
"Exposing the REAL STORY and TRUTHS about why Lasik is
the worst known medical procedure ever invented...how
the doctors do NOT care about you, but rather only about
your wallet...unfortunately this is how it is.
You've been warned!"