Dr Johnson,

Thank you for your participation on this Board and for inviting healthy skepticism. I have no doubt that you have helped some patients and have made some patients overjoyed. My healthy skepticism involves the success rate that you seem to be implying. I look forward to you clearing up any misunderstandings that I have. Most testimonials, positive and negative, on this board have been regarding Dr Geller's treatment. Dr Karikoff seems to turn down many more patients than Dr Geller or you. Yes, this is an unscientific poll, but enough individuals have reported disappointing results to make it hard to believe the 90% success rate that Dr Geller advertises. Unless you are claiming to have a technique or an ability beyond Dr Geller's, you must understand why I think your success rate must also be significantly lower than 90%. Also, your web site says that it is rare for you to see a patient whose bothersome floaters are too thin or transparent for you to treat. There are many on this board, myself included, who have related how their doctors could not see their floaters. Dr Geller could see some of my bothersome floaters and did zap them, but many that bothered me he could not see. I would tell him where they were, in general, but he did indicate to me that he was not seeing many of them. He zapped away in the general areas I complained about, but I don't think that was a good idea. I wonder if you, too, accept patients with many hard-to-see cobwebs and strands, which would more likely have disappointing results. Finally, you say the laser vaporizes the floater. I will accept this, but I think, to be fair, you need to be more precise, as you give the impression that if you zap a long floater strand with a laser the entire strand vaporize. Let's say you are zapping a floater in the central visual field where the laser is at its most focused and powerful: What is the diameter of the vaporizing action? If the floater is longer than this vaporizing diameter then what happens? I assume the floater vaporizes in the middle and splits in two. This is what happened to many floaters in my eye when Dr Geller zapped them. They would be broken and then they would gather closer to the edge of my vision where the laser was weaker (because it is less focused) and Geller could not get to them. If they just stayed there in the peripheral vision somewhat stationary, I would not mind, but they move around alot, and as many people on this board will attest to, floaters that move around alot are very bothersome.

Again, I do think there are floater sufferers who would benefit from your services and be extremely happy. But, I am sure there are others with floaters like mine who would be disappointed. It is very subjective, of course. When all was said and done, I blew about $3000 on these laser treatments. If I can spare a few people with eyes containing a hard-to-see "floater soup" like my eyes, this expense, I will at least feel I spent this money for some purpose.