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• Eyes of the Tiger: Tiger Woods - LASIK laser eye surgery
  Tiger Woods received LASIK surgery to correct his vision and improve his game in changing weather conditions.


• Zapping the Eye
  Holly Williams got her first pair of eyeglasses in kindergarten. She graduated to hard contact lenses at 16, then moved to soft lenses two years later. But the 35-year-old senior VP for a New York market-research firm never felt contacts fit into her active lifestyle. On airplanes, her eyes would dry out.
  Article courtesy of Andrew I. Caster, MD, FACS of Beverly Hills, CA


• Vision Correction Surgeries: Past Techniques, Present Trends, Future Technologies
  The pursuit to make people see without glasses has been an ongoing endeavor for centuries. The techniques that evolved from this desire signify the ongoing improvement in technology as well as progressive understanding of the visual system of the human eye.
  Article courtesy of Arun C. Gulani, M.D., M.S. of Jacksonville, FL


• Laser Eye Surgery Injects Innovation Money Into Field
  For Stephanie Chalupka, the decision to pay $5000 to have her eyeballs sliced, first by knife and then by a laser, came after a day of terror on Typhoon Mountain. A storm caused an emergency evacuation at the Disney World water park, forcing the ill-sighted mom to rush her two kids to safety without her glasses, which were in a locker. It was chaos in a blur.
  Article courtesy of Ernest W. Kornmehl, MD, FACS of Wellesley, MA


• Predicting visual outcomes using wavefront diagnostics
  Arun C. Gulani. MD. supplied the following fast Fourier transform images showing some of the diagnostic potential of wavefront technology.
  Article courtesy of Arun C. Gulani, M.D., M.S. of Jacksonville, FL


• New Instrument for Revision Lamellar Refractive Surgery
  With the widespread acceptance and proven efficacy of the excimer laser, many refractive surgeons are now revising lamellar refractive procedures. This involves lifting the previously made corneal flap (or creating a new one with a microkeratome 6 months to 1 year postoperatively) and ablating the stromal bed.
  Article courtesy of Arun C. Gulani, M.D., M.S. of Jacksonville, FL


• Amniotic membrane lowers chance of pterygium recurrence
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  Article courtesy of Arun C. Gulani, M.D., M.S. of Jacksonville, FL


• Sutureless Cryopreserved Amnion Grafts: ProKera
  ProKera™ consists of a piece of AmnioGraft® (cryopreserved human amniotic membrane) clipped into a dual PMMA symblepharon ring system (see sketch left). Thus, ProKera™ can be used as a temporary amnion graft for suppressing inflammation and promoting corneal surface healing without sutures.
  Article courtesy of Arun C. Gulani, M.D., M.S. of Jacksonville, FL


• Therapeutic LASIK: A Case Report
  Phototherapeutic keratectomy is a valuable technique for treating corneal opacities, but its usefulness is limited to the anterior cornea. Traditionally, deeper scars have required lamellar or penetrating keratoplasty. I recently had an interesting case. A 26-year-old patient underwent hyperopic automated lamellar keratoplasty in September 1994, by another surgeon. His preoperative refraction was +4 +1.25 x60 right eye and +3.5 +3 x107 left eye, with best-corrected acuity of 20/20 in each eye.
  Article courtesy of Gary Kawesch, MD of San Jose, CA


• How to Perform Descemet's Stripping Automated Endothelial Keratoplasty
  Descemet's stripping automated endothelial keratoplasty (DSAEK) is an evolving technique that is rapidly gaining in popularity.


• Results With Newer Bladeless LASIK Equivalent To Standard Microkeratome LASIK
  A Mayo Clinic study comparing femtosecond (bladeless) and mechanical microkeratome LASIK surgeries has found equal results from both types six months post-surgery, using a variety of vision and eye health measurements. The study's findings were presented in three abstracts at the Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology meeting in Fort Lauderdale, Fla.


• Dougherty Laser Vision Joins Forces with Pacific Eye & Ear Specialists
  Los Angeles-February 15, 2006 -- Dougherty Laser Vision today announced that it has expanded into West Los Angeles (Brentwood) by teaming up with Pacific Eye & Ear Specialists. The expansion creates a total of five Dougherty Laser Vision offices throughout Los Angeles, Ventura and Santa Barbara Counties.
  Article courtesy of Paul J. Dougherty, MD of Los Angeles, CA


• Ophthalmologist's Vision Realized in Implantable Contacts
  Dr. Paul Doughtery carefully makes a 3-millimeter slit near the edge of the cornea of Rod Barshook's right eye and slides a rolled-up contact lens between the iris and the eye's own lens. After the lens unrolls itself, he gently tucks the edges under the iris. A few minutes later another contact is implanted in the other eye.
  Article courtesy of Paul J. Dougherty, MD of Los Angeles, CA


• LASIKed
  Laker's assistant G.M. Kurt Rambis, whose horn-rims inspired the copycat Rambis Youth during his playing days. Said now spectacle-free Rambis, "I would hope that I was known more for my heart and hustle than for my glasses."
  Article courtesy of Andrew I. Caster, MD, FACS of Beverly Hills, CA


• Dr. Caster In The Media
  
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  Article courtesy of Andrew I. Caster, MD, FACS of Beverly Hills, CA


• Hey, didn't you used to wear glasses?
  One of my nicknames when I played for the Lakers was Superman. Not because of my ability, but because of those big, black Clark Kent glasses. I wore them every time I played from the seventh grade through 14 seasons in the NBA. Without my glasses, if I was standing on a corner, I couldn't read a sign on the other side of the street.
  Article courtesy of Andrew I. Caster, MD, FACS of Beverly Hills, CA


• Moretsky and Cassidy Recognized as Model Laser Vision Correction Practice
  It has often been said that the eyes are the gateway to the soul. For centuries poets have lauded the eyes of their beloved, and through the modern day we have held both our eyes and the vision they provide with almost a reverent sense of protection. Those blessed with excellent vision can hardly appreciate the day-to-day challenges of those not so fortunate.
  Article courtesy of Sanford L. Moretsky, D.O. of Phoenix, AZ


• New Flap Instruments are Created as LASIK Goes Mainstream
  There are spatulas, flippers, cannulas, forceps, and instruments too unusually shaped to put into a category " all competing for the attention of the growing number of phthalmologists performing laser in-situ keratomileusis (LASIK).
  Article courtesy of Arun C. Gulani, M.D., M.S. of Jacksonville, FL


• Zooming in on vision correction
  Lasik is by far the most popular procedure that surgically corrects most kinds of nearsightedness, farsightedness and astigmatism, with both traditional and "custom" Lasik accounting for 90 percent of vision-correction surgery.
  Article courtesy of Paul J. Dougherty, MD of Los Angeles, CA


• Coming to heal, staying to play
  The economic impact of medical tourists, patients who come for extended treatment is quite noticeable, which is why both the regions hospitals and tourism bureaus are trying to paint the First Coast as a medical destination.
  Article courtesy of Arun C. Gulani, M.D., M.S. of Jacksonville, FL