We
are doing spectacle reduction procedures from 1991.
LASER technology for freedom
from glasses and contact lenses.
Correction of nearsightedness, far-sightedness, astigmatism and presbyopia
(reading glasses). Designing & treating your own personal vision correction
profile.
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Advanced
CustomVue Procedure – fully USA - FDA approved.
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Highest
level of measurement & treatment accuracy - VISX
system with Iris Registration and Fourier Technology.
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Most
effective Laser corrective procedure available for
the broadest range of refractive conditions.
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Improves quality of vision in addition to correction of spectacle number. |
How
does the eye work?
The eye acts
like a camera with two focusing components, the cornea
and the natural crystalline lens. Clear image viewing
is dependent on the light bending properties of these
structures. The retina acts like the film of the camera,
receiving the focused light rays.
When light
is ideally focused, an eye may see 6/6 or 20/20. Conversely,
when light rays are not optimally focused, images may
appear blurry. This is called a "refractive error." The
eye can have one or a combination of refractive errors,
including myopia, hyperopia, presbyopia, and astigmatism.
 Myopia
(Nearsightedness)
Nearsighted
individuals typically have problems seeing
well at a distance and are forced to wear glasses
or contact lenses. The nearsighted eye is usually
longer than a normal eye, and its cornea may
also be steeper. Therefore, when light passes
through the cornea and lens, it is focused
in front of the retina. This will make distant
images appear blurred.
There are several refractive surgery solutions available to correct
nearly all levels of nearsightedness.
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Hyperopia
(Farsightedness)
Farsighted
individuals typically develop problems reading up close
before the age of 40. The farsighted eye is usually slightly
shorter than a normal eye and may have a flatter cornea.
Thus, the light of distant objects focuses behind the
retina unless the natural lens can compensate fully.
Near objects require even greater focusing power to be
seen clearly and therefore, blur more easily.
LASIK, Refractive Lens Exchange and Contact lenses are a few of the options
available to correct farsightedness.
 Astigmatism
Asymmetric
steepening of the cornea or natural lens causes
light to be focused unevenly, which is the
main optical problem in astigmatism. To individuals
with uncorrected astigmatism, images may look
blurry or shadowed. Astigmatism can accompany
any form of refractive error and is very common.
Astigmatism can be corrected with glasses, contact lenses, corneal
relaxing incisions, laser vision correction, and special implant
lenses.
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Presbyopia
Presbyopia
is a condition that typically becomes noticeable for
most people around age of 40-42. In children and young
adults, the lens inside the eye can easily focus on distant
and near objects. With age, the lens loses its ability
to focus adequately.
Although presbyopia is not completely understood, it is thought that the
lens and its supporting structures lose the ability to make the lens longer
during close vision effort. To compensate, affected individuals usually find
that holding reading material further away makes the image clearer. Ultimately,
aids such as reading glasses are typically needed by the mid-forties.
Besides glasses,
presbyopia can be dealt with in a number of ways. Options
include: monovision and multifocal contact lenses, monovision
laser vision correction, and new presbyopia correcting
implant lenses.
Vision
Correction Options
Today there
are many options for vision correction ranging from eyeglasses
and contact lenses to laser vision correction and lens
implants. Dr. Jeevan Ladi at DLEI has been performing
spectacle reduction surgery from 1991.
Vision Correction Options generally fall into four broad categories:
A fifth
category that significantly contributes to eye health
and improved vision is nutrition and vitamin supplements.
This fifth category is a long term commitment and it
is harder to measure its effectiveness on a specific
vision problem. To determine the current state of your
vision you need to visit your eye doctor for a Comprehensive
Eye Exam. This will provide your physician with the
information needed to recommend vision correction options.
Clear vision requires that light rays pass through the eye's cornea, pupil
and lens, and focus directly on the retina. If the cornea's curvature is
not perfect, light rays focus either in front of, or behind the retina, resulting
in nearsighted, farsightedness or astigmatism.
Myopia
or nearsightedness, Hyperopia or farsightedness, Astigmatism
and Presbyopia or aging eye are collectively referred
to as refractive errors, and the various surgical approaches
for correcting these are collectively referred to as
refractive surgery.
Lens Implants
Corrective
artificial lens implants give people the option of
living without glasses. This vision correction choice
offers different options for the under 40 and the over
40 age groups.
Under
40 years of age
The Implantable Collamer Lens or ICL, sometimes called the Implantable Contact
Lens, marketed by Staar Surgical in Monrovia, California, received U.S. Food
and Drug Administration approval in late December 2005. More than 40,000
Visian ICL’s have already been implanted worldwide.
Over
40 years of age
The choice of lens implants for this age group is larger and more established,
like Clear Lens Exchange (CLE) .
