it's a personal choice. But for me, nobody, I repeat, nobody is touching my eyes! It's very safe statistically but it's still an operation. A friend (kind of, never met in person, over the net) had LASIK (or LASEK) last November and she lost one eye sight and is waiting for cornea replacement now. Admittedly, this is very rare. She said that a lot of the eye doctors she saw wear thick glasses. Go figure!