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News and Updates
News
ABC News - "Is Lasik Surgery
Right for Me?"
Introduction: Patients presented their
comments about Laser Vision Correction or LASIK (Laser Assisted Intrastromal
Keratomileusis)
Positive Comments:
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Patients indicate that they are
happier with custom or wavefront treating lasers
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Doctors should reject poor candidates
that have prescriptions outside LASIK guidelines which are more
restrictive than with Surface Epi-Laser Guidelines
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Large prescriptions will tolerate halos at night, but
it is one of the best things he did for himself
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Allowed to watch surgery "best thing he has ever
done"
Negative Comments:
- Patients advise against having a flap cut in
their cornea
- Caution has been indicated for lasers that create
more nighttime glare and halos
- LASIK has predisposed patients to ectasia and has
reduced corneal biomechanics
- LASIK should be practiced as medicine, not as a
business and patients need more one on one with their treating
ophthalmologist
- Think long and hard before you have LASIK or
Laser Intrastromal surgery
- Some doctors and optometrists are opposed to
LASIK
Dr. Shealy's Comments:
"Patients having cutting or flap surgery with
traditional lasers tend to have nighttime glare and halos, structural
weakening of their cornea predisposing to ectasia, wrinkles in their cap or
flap, and reduced quality of vision, compared to new wavefront lasers where
the treatment is placed on the corneal surface without a flap. 90% of all
the complications are related to retreatments and making a cap or flap.
Surface Epi-Laser with the Allegretto Wavelight is
accurate 99.9% of the time and the quality of vision better than with
glasses and contact lenses 98% of the time. Patients can function without
bifocals 90% of the time. This new surface laser treatment has been made
possible with better pharmaceutical management and new temporary soft
contact lenses worn 2 1/2 to 3 1/2 days after surgery."
"Newer technologies and better medical management of
postop discomfort have allowed us to offer superior results with patient
safety in mind." - Ming Wang, MD, PhD, and Tracy S.
Swartz, OD, MS, FAAO.
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Other News
The
'O' Magazine article about Laser Vision Correction!
Anterior Segment Techniques;
Microkeratome vs. Femtosecond Laser
Advantages of Thin-Flap LASIK vs.
Femtosecond Laser Surgery
Epi-Laser vs. IntraLASIK; Three-month post-op
visual acuity is better with Epi-Laser
Epi-LASER; Better
Biomechanics than LASIK or PRK!
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Archival
Links
US Food & Drug Administration;
When is LASIK not for me?
ABC News - "Is Lasik Surgery Right for
Me?" FDA to Hold Public Meeting in June on
Contact Lenses
Following up on the keratitis outbreaks
of recent years, the FDA’s Ophthalmic Devices Panel is meeting June 10 to
discuss postmarket experience with various contact lens care products
contact lens care product development (including preclinical testing and
clinical performance measures) and labeling for contact lenses and lens care
products. The Academy is working with the Cornea Society and the Contact
Lens Association of Ophthalmologists to develop recommendations and
testimony on these issues for the meeting.
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Updates
Shealyeye.com is updated every Wednesday
from 1:00 to 3:00 pm Eastern Standard Time.
Notes from the Webmaster
May, 2008
My update from June, 2006 still holds true, this website is very much
alive. Dr. Shealy and I make changes to it weekly, and we have to -
the technology of laser vision correction is changing that quickly! It's
exciting! More new advances in optical, medical, laser, and computer
technology have made surface procedures even safer with better results.
Some are predicting a rebirth of corneal refractive surgery driven by new
technologies, like computer-controlled femtosecond lasers, that makes even
thinner flaps to enhance safety called Sub-Bowman's keratomileusis or SBK-LASIK.
Safer, better, faster - the future is
NOW! Is time for you to look into laser
vision correction?
June, 2006
Contrary to print media that goes to the
press and is therefore editable only to a certain point in the production
process, a website is constantly changing, always growing; in a sense, never
finished. As technology changes, not only in the website industry and the
way websites are designed, built and implemented but the in the technology
that the site represents as well, we webmasters have our work cut out for us
when it comes to keeping our sites current and up to date. A website can almost be thought of as a living thing. I'm
sure that all of you have been to a 'dead' website at one point - only 1/2
or none of the links work, the contact email returns a 'mailer daemon', the
phone number is no longer valid, etc. So why not one that's 'alive'?
This website is one of those sites - It's
alive!
Since April of 2005, when I first started
as the Webmaster here, technology has made great strides in the area of
laser vision correction. I am submersed in the data and information that is
compiled here and I am learning a lot about eyes, laser vision correction,
LASIK, Epi-Laser, surface procedures and more. And a lot
is happening - new tools and techniques are being invented and tested,
better, faster, more precise lasers are being produced, even advancements in
the computer and software industries are helping laser vision correction
technology to grow.
I have also been fortunate enough to see
the joy and elation on the faces of people who have just had the surgery and
minutes later are seeing better than ever in their lives.
If you've been told that you're not a
candidate for laser vision correction in the past, maybe it's time to take
another 'look' at it, so to speak - and yes, pun intended. Unless you keep
checking, you'll never know when technology has caught up and the problem
you have with your vision may be something that can be addressed now or in
the very near future. And the consultation is FREE! Maybe it IS time to get
rid of your glasses!
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