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| How to Choose Your LASIK Surgeon?
There are flashy LASIK ads everywhere attempting to lure the price-conscious consumer. It is important to note that LASIK is a lifetime investment and your surgeon should be chosen wisely.
Recently, PBS aired a special on refractive surgery titled Laser Vision, 20/10 by 2010? narrated by Walter Cronkite. Following this showing we have been inundated with calls from patients inquiring about "custom LASIK" and having LASIK using "custom ablation with wavefront mapping." What is the best treatment today for a person seeking LASIK surgery?
The most exciting news in laser vision correction in the past five years has occurred with the Food and Drug Administration's approval of VISX's Custom Vue TM wavefront-guided treatment for patients with nearsightedness and/or astigmatism.
For the first time in medical history, eye surgeons now have access to technology capable of revealing how the human body's entire optical system processes light The WaveScan System was developed by VISX, Inc. - the world's largest manufacturer of Excimer lasers - to provide eye doctors the most comprehensive picture of the eye ever developed, including more quantitative & qualitative data on irregular astigmatism and higher order aberrations. |
   
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