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New
Vision Correction Technique Taught At The New York Eye and Ear Infirmary
New
Technique Considered an Advancement in Vision Correction Technology
New York (November 2002) -- Barrie
Soloway, M.D., Director of Vision Correction at The New York Eye and Ear
Infirmary, was the course director of the first United States course on
therapeutic wavefront guided vision correction.
The new system will allow for the most
personalized and accurate laser vision correction available, and placement of
this new technology at The New York Eye and Ear Infirmary is expected shortly.
Faculty for this course
included other world renowned experts, Drs. Daniel Durrie, Roger Steinert and
Shachar Tauber.
The freestanding wavefront
machine, known as LADARWave, directs low-intensity, non-damaging infrared
laser light into the eye while the patient focuses on a target. The scattered
light that bounces off the retina is then directed onto a series of lenses
that focus each section of the wavefront into an array of spots.
Comparing how a particular
spot pattern deviates from the pattern of a "perfect eye" shows
where the patient's aberrations are. This information can be captured on a
disk and input into the excimer laser to generate the ideal laser treatment
pattern for each patient. It may also be a useful diagnostic tool if a patient
does not have satisfactory vision after previous vision correction surgery.
"By using the wavefront
machine and the excimer laser together, we can now facilitate the achievement
of better uncorrected visual acuity than with standard LASIK alone," said
Dr. Soloway. "Not only will surgeons correct more existing aberrations
than with standard LASIK, they can help avoid induction of new ones."
Dr. Soloway has been The New York Eye and Ear Infirmary's principal investigator for using Vision Wavemap technology for
diagnostic purposes and is a permanent faculty member of the Excellence in
LASIK and Advancing Refractive Technology courses offered by Alcon.
For more information on
future courses, Dr. Soloway can be reached at (212) 758-3838 or vistaeye@aol.com.
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