Almost everyone today has heard about Lasik eye surgery, but it wasn’t long ago that it was viewed as a brand new and revolutionary innovation. Lasik is actually an acronym that stands for laser assisted in-situ keratomileusis. It was development thanks to several advances in ophthalmologic technology, the first of which was the microkeratome blade [...]
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The History LASIK Surgery
January 27th, 2010 
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November 9th, 2009 admin For over 25 years, Turner Eye Institute has been providing vision correction and LASIK surgeries to residents of San Francisco and the Bay Area. Their distinguished record of excellent results assures their patients of receiving the highest quality of personalized medical care from a highly trained and experienced team.Turner Eye Institute has provided eye care [...]
Posted in Articles Tags: Baseball Announcer, Cataract Surgery, Corrective Lenses, Dr Turner, Eye Care Patients, Eye Institute, Eye Physicians, Ksfo Radio, Laser Eye Surgery, Lasik Eye Surgery, Lasik Surgery, Medical Background, Melanie Morgan Ksfo, Radio Personality, Robert Buan, Stephen Turner, Surgical Outcomes, Thin Flap, Vision Centers, Visual Freedom No Comments »5 Lasers Commonly Used in Ophthalmology
August 20th, 2009 admin When in 1946 a German ophthalmologist named Gerd Meyer-Schwickerath used the focused light beam from a xenon arc lamp to perform a retinal coagulation on a human eye, his procedure completely revolutionized the world of ophthalmology. Light is noninvasive when it comes to reaching internal eye structures. That’s why, when Theodore Maiman tested the first [...]
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