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away with glasses, and asking, 'How do I get
this?'" They're increasingly drawn to facilities
that invest in such game-changing devices as
femtosecond lasers and intraoperative aberrometry.
• Femtosecond laser surgery. Laser platforms
let surgeons make accurate and repeatable
capsulorhexis — the large circular incision in
the anterior lens capsule — without taking a
blade to the patient's eye.
Karl G. Stonecipher, MD, director of the
Laser Center in Greensboro, N.C., is a big proponent of the technology. "In my experience,
it provides safer, predictable outcomes
because of more effective lens positioning."
When the FDA approved presbyopia-correcting IOLs 7 years ago, Mr. Dawes's surgeons were among the first in the country to
offer the vision upgrades to their patients.
"We were simply excited to offer improved
outcomes, regardless of the financial benefits
we realized," he says.
So when femtosecond laser cataract surgery hit the market, he evaluated the technology with his physicians and decided it
would help them deliver improved refractive
outcomes. When deciding to allocate significant investment dollars in the laser platform, he looked at how much the technology would cost and
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changes with my practice.
"When there have been
technology changes that
I've wanted to make, they
have been available to me
through Sightpath Medical."
"I am a
Sightpath
Surgeon."
Richard Phinney, MD
Eye Surgeons Associates
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