title: Patient preference--contact lens or radial keratotomy?
abstract: BACKGROUND
  Past clinical experience has suggested that patients are more satisfied after radial keratotomy than when wearing contact lenses.
  
  
  METHODS
  One-hundred patients who had worn contact lenses prior to receiving radial keratotomy compared subjectively these two methods for correcting myopia. The postoperative follow up ranged from 3 months to 13 years.
  
  
  RESULTS
  The vast majority (93%) preferred radial keratotomy to the handling of contact lenses.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  The desire to be independent of optical correction is a sufficient indication for refractive surgery.
authors.forename: L
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Haverbeke
mesh_terms: D003261:Contact Lenses; D005500:Follow-Up Studies; D006801:Humans; D007646:Keratotomy, Radial; D009216:Myopia / Q000601:surgery* / Q000628:therapy; D017060:Patient Satisfaction; D011183:Postoperative Complications; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires; D014792:Visual Acuity