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Jan 2024
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Knock Knock Eye: When Is The Right Time ...

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This week on Knock Knock Eye, Will talks about how he started Glaucomflecken and what it takes to start your own social media platform, before getting into the main topic, Refractive Surgery or LASIK. Will talks about the history of refractive surgery, including the barbaric ways it used to be done and how LASIK and Photorefractive Keratectomy came to be safer practices. Will also talks about when is the right time to do LASIK and when you shouldn't do LASIK.

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