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Just a quick bit of information I found….

NearVision CK® is a safe, minimally invasive procedure that involves no cutting of your cornea. And it’s performed using the ViewPoint® CK® System, the only FDA-approved technology for the temporary improvement of near vision. This makes it an ideal procedure for people over 40, for whom safety is often the most important factor in their decision to undergo a vision correction procedure.

How NearVision CK® works

NearVision CK® (Conductive Keratoplasty) is a quick procedure with no cutting involved. You don’t even have to go to an outpatient surgery center. In just three minutes, a doctor can perform NearVision CK in his or her office.

The Procedure

Using radiofrequency (RF) energy, NearVision CK® can change how the eye focuses light by reshaping the cornea to make it steeper. After the doctor has applied a topical anesthetic (eye drops), controlled RF energy is applied in a circular pattern to shrink the corneal tissue. This pattern is applied in the periphery of your cornea and therefore minimizes interference with your line of sight (i.e., pupil). A device called a “speculum” holds your eye open during the procedure.

Once finished, you don’t have to wear a patch and can usually return to work or normal activities the next day. Vision generally begins improving in about a week’s time. As with other procedures, the level of improved vision may be temporary. While NearVision CK® can turn back the clock on your vision, it cannot stop the clock entirely.

NearVision CK® can also help patients with farsightedness, or hyperopia, a condition in which the eye is too flat. CK® modifies the topographical (surface) curvature, making it steeper and therefore improving vision.

How many lasik surgeons do you think there are in New York? I’d say easily hundreds and perhaps thousands, so don’t just look for the best deal - they’re your only set of eyes

A team of researchers from Spain tracked LASIK surgery (laser in-situ keratomileusis) and its forerunner, PRK (photorefractive keratectomy). In both procedures, the cornea is reshaped so that light entering the eye focuses on the retina in the back of the eye, as it does in those with normal vision.

“Our findings are that both are safe after 10 years,” and the visual correction holds for the most part, says researcher Jorge Alio, MD, PhD, an ophthalmologist.

The study was presented at the joint annual meeting of the American Academy of Ophthalmology and the Asia Pacific Academy of Ophthalmology.

The 10-Year Study

The study evaluated 200 eyes with nearsightedness (myopia) or with myopia and astigmatism, an irregularly shaped cornea that blurs vision.

One hundred eyes were corrected with LASIK; the other 100 were corrected with PRK. Both procedures use lasers.

On average, patients were 29 when the surgeries were done in 1995 and 1996, Alio says.

The researchers measured each patient’s vision 10 years later and evaluated changes on the cornea, which reflect the stability of the procedure.

Most of the vision correction remained, he says. Ten years later, on average, “they read the line [on the eye chart] above what they used to read [immediately after the surgery].”

Put another way, he says, the vision of both groups regressed only slightly.

These patients were highly nearsighted to begin with, he says. After 10 years, the PRK patients’ nearsightedness and the LASIK patients’ vision regressed only slightly, Alio says.

“This is a very good study,” says James J. Salz, MD, a Los Angeles ophthalmologist and long-time vision correction surgery researcher. The results, he says, show that both eye procedures are “very stable” operations.”

While the patients got a bit more nearsighted — and the LASIK patients a bit more than the PRK patients — the results held fairly well, he says.

Dr. Farzad Yaghouti of Global Laser Vision San Diego wins the 2006 San Diego CityBEAT Readers’ Choice Award as the “Best Lasik Surgeon 2006″.
Every year, San Diego CityBEAT showcases the best and most unique people, places and things in San Diego, with the winners of a month-long on-line readers’ poll. Readers choose from a variety of categories and this year Global Laser Vision is proud to announce that the readers of San Diego chose them as the “Best Lasik Surgeons in San Diego” for the year 2006.

Dr. Farzad Yaghouti, Chief Refractive Surgeon, said, “We are honored that the people of San Diego chose us as the best Lasik surgeon in San Diego. At Global Laser Vision, our primary goal is to make our patients knowledgeable about their options so that they in turn can make informed decisions about the best possible solution to their visual needs”.