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 CustomVision-- a better LASIK

A newer technology and laser surgery yields better vision...

Dayton, Ohio

      No two eyes are the same.  Every person has small distortions in their vision that even glasses and contacts can not correct.  It is these subtle differences that make your eyes completely unique to you.  New technology promises to correct these subtle imperfections and may improve the clarity of your vision as well as decreasing post-op complications.

    For years doctors have measure vision by having patients read letters on a standard Snellen Eye Chart.  Doctors consider your vision "normal" if you can identify the small letters on the 20/20 row from a distance of 20 feet.  Until now, laser vision correction, like glasses and contacts could only correct the visual distortions caused by nearsightedness, farsightedness, and astigmatism.  However, these three type of vision distortions only account for 85%-90% of the overall quality of your vision.  Now thanks to advanced Wavefront CustomVision technology, its possible to measure and address the other 10% to 15% of visual distortion.  With this advance in technology, Many patients now have the potential to not only see beyond 20/20, but to have clear, crisp vision never experienced before.

WHY ARE DOCTOR'S SO EXCITED ABOUT WAVEFRONT CUSTOMVISION?

     Wavefront guided customized treatments allow doctors to offer people the possibility of better vision than they have had with glasses or contacts, and allow doctors to solve the problems of patients who have had problems in the past.  Doctors have been eagerly awaiting this FDA approval for several years.  This is the technology they will be using for the next decade or more.  Dr. Stahl of Dayton, Ohio notes, "I have not seen this level of excitement since the advent of refractive surgery.  If doctors can communicate this excitement to their patients, it will really change how people think about refractive surgery.  Now you can say to someone that they have a 30% chance of seeing better than they every did before, a 90% chance of seeing 20/20, and 99% chance of seeing within one line of the 20/20 row on the eye chart.  With this added confidence in laser vision correction, patients are finally taking that step toward clear vision without contacts and glasses.  This is the technology we have been waiting for."

CustomVision Advantages:

• Greater chance of achieving 20/20 vision

• Greater chance of seeing BEYOND 20/20 vision

• Reduced chance of losing visual quality or contrast sensitivity

• Reduce chance of night vision disturbances and glare

More Information on this Topic on the Web:
"Why settle for 20/20", Business Week, 3/2003.