Se Habla Español
One of our patients said that she decided to have LASIK with us because Dr. Mark Schneider, MD spoke Spanish! At our practice we work really hard to make the appointment experience comforting, welcoming, respectful, and efficient. We never know what part of a person’s time with us will be the highlight, but the other day one…
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LASIK Excimer Laser, Part 2
While Christmas lights are typically not lasers, there is one very important part of the Holiday season that’s absolutely dependent upon lasers, and that is…shopping! So here we are, fresh off a blog on LASIK technology and laser vision correction, and I thought – in addition to LASIK being a perfect Christmas gift for someone…
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LASIK Excimer Laser
Our last blog we took a look at the IntraLase laser, used for the first step in LASIK treatment. The second step is performed with the Excimer laser, which does the laser vision correction. Described by patients as a miracle, LASIK is quite an elegant procedure. Taking less than 10 minutes altogether for two eyes, the…
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Stem Cells and Eyesight
Stem cell therapy is now being used to treat damage to the cornea, according to research published by the University of Sheffield, England, in December. The cornea is the transparent layer on the front of the eye. Damage to the cornea is one of the major causes of blindness. What may be less familiar than…
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LASIK Candidates
The word “candidate” usually evokes ideas and images about politicians, campaigns, and elections. The field of laser vision correction has its candidate selection process too, but it has nothing to do with politics! Although LASIK can be very successful when performed on the right patients, it may not be for everyone. Generally, the best candidates…
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LASIK Makes History, Part 2
Last week we left off “Part 1” reporting the historic moment for LASIK at the end of last year with President Obama’s awarding an IBM team of scientists who discovered how the excimer laser could be used for vision-correction surgery. Part of that discovery included the team of researchers demonstrating the precision and scale of…
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LASIK Makes History!
This week we get to revisit our beloved LASIK, with which we climaxed 2012. Just as we were really ramping up into the festivities of the Christmas season, on another celebrated calendar day, December 21st (winter solstice), 2012 – the day that life as we knew it was supposed to end – U.S. President Obama…
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LASIK Nutrition
While the general pre-operative-LASIK preparation for patients has become essentially traditional—for instance, if you wear contact lenses, you must switch to eyeglasses three weeks before your initial evaluation. Yet, for the post-operative-LASIK period, a more recent awareness has been developing, in the area of diet. Until, should we say, the 21st Century, nutrition in ophthalmology…
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My LASIK Generation!
There is little doubt, that in terms of vision correction, we are in the exciting LASIK Generation! In general terms, up to the early 20th century there was the horse and buggy generation, then the automobile generation. Silent film, “talkies,” Television, videotape, DVD, internet video, downloadable video. So now we’re going to skip a lot…
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LASIK for Presbyopia? Yes, It’s About Time!
Yes, presbyopia is about time, the passing of time, about 40 years of it, which causes the condition. While people wanting LASIK treatment for presbyopia may not be overly enthusiastic about how the condition gets its name, the source is at least visually interesting: PRESBUS. It’s Greek, and the Latin translation is senex, which leads us to…
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