Advanced Medical Optics (EYE)

CERTAIN FACTORS AND TRENDS AFFECTING AMO AND ITS BUSINESS

Our disclosure and analysis in this report contain forward-looking information about our company’s financial results and estimates, business prospects and future products that involve substantial risks and uncertainties. These statements constitute “forward-looking statements” within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. From time to time, we also may provide oral or written forward-looking statements in other materials we release to the public. Forward-looking statements give our current expectations or forecasts of future events. You can identify these statements by the fact that they do not relate strictly to historic or current facts. They use words such as “anticipate,” “estimate,” “expect,” “project,” “intend,” “plan,” “believe,” “will,” and other words and terms of similar meaning in connection with any discussion of future operating or financial performance. In particular, these include statements relating to future actions, prospective products or product approvals, future performance or results of current and anticipated products, sales efforts, expenses, interest rates, foreign exchange rates, the outcome of contingencies, such as legal proceedings, financial results, and the expected results and benefits of our acquisition of VISX, Incorporated. Among the factors that could cause actual results to differ materially are the following:

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We cannot guarantee that any forward-looking statement will be realized. Achievement of future results is subject to risks, uncertainties and inaccurate assumptions. Should known or unknown risks or uncertainties materialize, or should underlying assumptions prove inaccurate, actual results could vary materially from past results and those anticipated, estimated or projected. Investors should bear this in mind as they consider forward-looking statements.

We undertake no obligation to publicly update forward-looking statements, whether as a result of new information, future events or otherwise. You are advised, however, to consult any further disclosures we make on related subjects in our Forms 10-Q, 8-K and 10-K reports to the Securities and Exchange Commission. Our Form 10-K filing for the 2004 fiscal year and our Form 8-K filed on July 13, 2005 listed various important factors that could cause actual results to differ materially from expected and historic results. We note these factors for investors as permitted by the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. Readers can find them in Item 1 of the Form 10-K under the heading “Certain Factors and Trends Affecting AMO and Its Businesses” and in the Supplemental Information filed with the Form 8-K. We incorporate that section of that Form 10-K and Form 8-K in this filing and encourage investors to refer to it. You should understand that it is not possible to predict or identify all such factors. Consequently, you should not consider any such list to be a complete set of all potential risks or uncertainties.

CERTAIN FACTORS AND TRENDS AFFECTING AMO AND ITS BUSINESS

Our disclosure and analysis in this report contain forward-looking information about our company’s financial results and estimates, business prospects and future products that involve substantial risks and uncertainties. These statements constitute “forward-looking statements” within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. From time to time, we also may provide oral or written forward-looking statements in other materials we release to the public. Forward-looking statements give our current expectations or forecasts of future events. You can identify these statements by the fact that they do not relate strictly to historic or current facts. They use words such as “anticipate,” “estimate,” “expect,” “project,” “intend,” “plan,” “believe,” “will,” and other words and terms of similar meaning in connection with any discussion of future operating or financial performance. In particular, these include statements relating to future actions, prospective products or product approvals, future performance or results of current and anticipated products, sales efforts, expenses, interest rates, foreign exchange rates, the outcome of contingencies, such as legal proceedings, financial results, and the expected timing or results of our expected acquisition of VISX, Incorporated. Among the factors that could cause actual results to differ materially are the following: