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Doctors figure out how to reduce repeat LASIK visits
… adjust their vision after their initial LASIK (laser-assisted in-situ keratomileusis ..... a dramatic drop in farsightedness among LASIK patients. In a recent study where MacRae ..... 3%) were slightly farsighted after LASIK . He compared this to results from a previous …
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Femtosecond Laser Plays Microkeratome Role in Lasik
… uses the Pulsion FS (femtosecond) laser to create the corneal flap in the first step of the laser in situ keratomileusis ( LASIK ) procedure. The company plans to use a $22 million financing round to begin commercialization of the IntraLASIK system …
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Abbott free to sell iFS femtosecond laser for US cataract surgeries
… shaped or curved arcuate incisions in corneal surgery, including cataract surgery. The iFS laser is currently used to create LASIK flaps and other corneal incisions in the eye and is the fifth-generation of Abbott's IntraLase technology, which has been …
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Laser medical device developer AMO acquired by Abbott in $2.8B deal
… leader in ophthalmic care. AMO holds the number one position in LASIK laser vision correction surgical devices , the number two position ..... driven by advances in refractive surgery technologies, including LASIK , and an aging global population." Population growth and demographic …
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Corneal transplantation
… femtosecond lasers are currently used to do surgical corneal flap dissections in laser-assisted in-situ keratomileusis ( LASIK ) surgery for the correction of refractive errors. These femtosecond surgical lasers are able to create precise vertical …
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Carl Zeiss Meditec Announces a US Clinical Trial of a New Minimally Invasive, All-Femto Laser Vision Correction Method; US FDA conditional approval received to initiate a clinical trial of the ReLEx® ...
… vision correction for the first time - all in a single system: the VisuMax Femtosecond Laser from Carl Zeiss Meditec. While in LASIK procedures the excimer laser vaporizes tissue, the ReLEx smile method generates a refractive lenticule in the intact cornea …
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Abbott Receives U.S. FDA Clearance for Cataract Surgery Laser
… shaped or curved arcuate incisions in corneal surgery, including cataract surgery. The iFS Laser is currently used to create LASIK flaps and other corneal incisions in the eye and is the fifth generation of IntraLase technology, which has been used in more …
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FDA Approves iFS Advanced Femtosecond Laser by Abbott
… bow-shaped or curved accurate incisions in corneal surgery, with cataract surgery. Presently, iFS Laser is used to make LASIK flaps and other corneal incisions in the eye. Almost 3 million patients opt for cataract surgery in the U.S. each year …
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PHOTONIC FRONTIERS: APPLICATIONS OF ULTRAFAST LASERS - Ultrashort pulses write sharp, tiny features and perform microsurgery
… is in a niche opened by the spread of the LASIK approach to refractive surgery. The advantage of LASIK over the older photorefractive keratectomy ..... cutting those flaps cause most complications in LASIK patients. Click here to enlarge image To …
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NASA licensing wavefront sensing technology from the Webb Telescope
… said Dan Neal, research fellow at Abbott Medical Optics (Albuquerque, NM). "To date 10-12 million eyes have been treated with Lasik procedures in the U.S. alone. As technology improves, so does the quality of these procedures."
