Is using lasers on eye gunk worth it?
(AP)


<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/health/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070130/ap_on_he_me/eye_floaters"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/ap/20070130/capt.vajm10301300442.eye_floaters_vajm103.jpg?x=130&y=117&sig=V2U9ewbW9uo3sRi7oBIT7w--" align="left" height="117" width="130" alt="In this undated ophthalmic photograph released by Dr. John Karickhoff ,a patient's eye is seen after its ring shaped eye floater was removed. The floaters in both eyes had been preventing the musical conductor from seeing notes because they criss-crossed when he looked from the musical score to the orchestra and back to the score, the doctor said. (AP Photo/John Karickhoff)" border="0" /></a>AP - Some people call them floaters. Eye doctors call them "vitreous opacities." Emily Flynn called hers "a little fuzzball," and she flew halfway around the world to have it removed. After more than 100 pinpoint zaps from a laser beam during a half-hour visit to a northern Virginia office park, the fuzzball was gone, obliterated within the clear, gelatinous goo that fills the eyeball.</p><br clear="all"/>