Myopia: A Treatable Epidemic
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Dr. Lance Kugler |
TEDxOmaha
• November 2019
Glasses and contact lenses are prosthetics that cost us at a minimum $45K in our lifetime. With the exception of first responders, military and athletes, most of us choose to use prosthetics to correct our sight until those prosthetics fail us and we need cataract surgery. While surgery routinely corrects physical problems, and we clamor to get that corrective surgery, why do we ignore our sight? Why do we take the expensive lifetime option with annual tests, new prescriptions, risk of infection and injury, rather than the less expensive, more effective and efficient corrective surgery? Shouldn’t everyone, worldwide have the opportunity to be able to see without prosthetics? Dr Lance Kugler explores the real cost of eyesight, and makes the case for the global benefit, economic development, personal independence, career opportunities and life changing impact of reframing how we see sight, vision and our eyes.