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 any time you have surgery there is a risk factor
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 involved.
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 mean nothing that you. do in life is
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 without risk. Walking across the streets in downtown
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 Washington is not without rlsk_ but there are
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 have cataracts_ and they do the surgery end take out
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 the cataract and in many cases replace it with an
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 cause blurred vision?
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 places locks the serlal muscl,_s into place so that
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 you have the inability to focus on things that are
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