Dishler Laser - Blog

Death, taxes, and needing bifocals when you get older are the three things that that you just cannot avoid. Well, maybe we can help with the last one soon. A company in California called Revision Optics has developed a special small lens that is implanted into the front surface of the eye which builds a bifocal into the vision and for many patients could be a future without the dreaded bifocals. This little plastic lens is about twice the size of the period at the end of this sentence and being so small, it does not make much of an impact on the distance vision. Yet for vision up close, it can make all the difference in the world. We are about to begin an FDA clinical trial on this implant along with four other centers throughout the United States. In Europe it already has the CE mark and will soon be implanted in several locations. It is exciting to be a part of such an elegant solution to an age old problem. As to death and taxes, well we can't help you with those.

Whether blue, brown or Hazel, the pupil is the entrance to our vision. At Dishler Laser Institute we are continuously upgrading our technology both for research and for patient care. Our most recent acquisition is the Neuroptics pupillometer. This small handheld piece of equipment has an amazing amount of technology packed into a small package. We are all familiar with the concept of the pupil of the eye and it is similar to the aperature of a camera. It is the opening which admits light into the eye that we use for our vision. Any light outside of this entrance pupil is blocked by the iris, or the colored portion of the eye. It is only this tiny pencil of light which is so critical and can make the difference between excellent sight and blurry vision. The size of this pupil becomes important to measure in vision correction surgery and prior to the Neuroptics device we had fewer options. Our prior measurement device which is widely used is the Colvard pupillometer. Although similar in outside appearance to the Neuroptics, it requires the user to guess the pupil size based on a ruler on the screen. This was an improvement from the previous method of holding a ruler up to the eye, but is not nearly as accurate at the Neuroptics device. This is one more example that there is a lot more differences between LASIK centers than one might at first imagine.

Goldline Research is an independent consumer market research firm who picks the top 10 in a variety of professional service firms and then publishes their results in Forbes Magazine. In the November 2009 issue we have been honored as one of the ten LASIK centers selected by their research as the best in the United States. We have been told by their research department that Goldline has identified approximately 10,000 LASIK providers in the USA and from this large group narrowed down their research to a potential group of 1000 LASIK providers. Finally, based on criteria of experience, technology, patient reviews, and their own proprietary methods, we were notified that we made the cut and were included in their designation which is published this month in the prestigious Forbes magazine in the "Most Powerful People" issue. We are very appreciative of this honor and will work even harder to make the experience of all of our patients world class.