nseye.com

Macular degeneration is a widespread eye condition that causes loss of central vision in patients.  Typically, macular degeneration is an eye problem of advancing age and is more typical in fair skin and light eyed patients.  Macular degeneration runs in families and tends to occur slowly; therefore regular eye examinations are important.  The eye doctors at North Shore Eye Care in Smithtown new york in Long island examine many patients with this eye problem and typically see drusen or calcification in the macula, which is the center of the retina, as the first sign.  Patient complain of metamorphopsia which describes distortion of a visual image.  There are treatments for macular degeneration including eye vitamins, laser and possible injections for wet macular degeneration.  Macular degeneration is dry when there is no bleeding under the retina and wet when new blood vessels form and start to bleed under the retina.  As patients age, cataracts develop as well.  A cataract is a clouding of the natural lens of the eye.  When a cataract develops in a patient with macular degeneration, it can be difficult to determine whether vision loss is attributed to the cataract or the damage to the retina.

At North Shore Eye Care, our board certified cataract surgeons attempt to make sure that cataract surgery in the setting of macular degeneration will be helpful to our Long Island patients.  We have the retina evaluated by a retinal specialist and use highly technologic tests like OCT. Our cataract doctors do counsel our patients to make sure that expectations can be achieved.  We help our macular degeneration patients to understand that cataract surgery will have certain visual benefits, but may be limited based on retinal disease.  At times, we are pleasantly suprised with the visual performance after cataract surgery.  If you have macular degeneration and are told that you have cataracts as well, contact the cataract specialists at North Shore Eye Care in Smithtown New York for an eye evaluation.

In Long island new york in suffolk and nassau counties, we see patients from smithtown, nesconset, saint james, kings park, centereach, selden, coram, middle island, riverhead, ridge, stony brook, setauket, port jefferson, miller place, mt. sinai, rocky point, shoreham, wading river, yaphank, shirley, mastic, moriches, patchogue, medford, bellport, bayport, brookhaven, bluepoint, manorville, cutchogue, calverton, jamesport, mattituck, southold, eastport, remsenburg, westhampton, east hampton, quogue, hampton bays, southampton, sag harbor, montauk, amagansett, and many other towns.

A stye or hordeolum is a boil or pimple on the skin of your eyelid. It usually happens when there is an infection in the root of the eyelash or a meibomian gland. A meibomian gland is a gland in your skin that produces an oily material which helps to moisten and protect your eyes  by preventing the water layer on your eye surface from evaporating.

Symptoms of a stye are redness, pain and swelling on your eyelid. You may see white, pus-filled spot with a head on it close to the edge of your eyelid and it may be very tender as well. When left untreated it can become a chalazion. Once the initial inflammation has gone, you may be left with a bump that is painless on the underside of your eyelid. The most common cause of a stye is a bacterial infection. It is estimated that close to 90%  of styes are caused by staphylococcal bacteris, which is usually found  on your skin and inside your nose and mouth. Commonly  associated with styes is a process called blepharitis. Blepharitis is a chronic inflammation of your eyelids. People who have blepharitis are much more likely to get styes.

For the most part, styes can go away by themselves within a few days with minimal treatment. If your stye does not go away,  there are several treatments available. A hot compress is a simple, treatment for a stye. Use a face towel soaked in hot water to make a compress, it should not be scalding hot. Place the compress against the area of your eyelid for five to ten minutes. This will warm and open the pores on your eyelid helping them to drain. This should be repeated  four to eight  times a day until it clears up. Antibiotic treatments in the form of drops or ointments usually are employed for faster and easier recovery. Sometimes oral antibiotics are needed as well. If medical treatment fails, styes may need to be removed by your ophthalmologist. Usually, the doctor will open the head of the  stye from the underneath your eyelid with a blade. This will allow the proper cleaning of trapped fluid and debri to be released and promote the lid to heal.

At North Shore Eye Care, our board certified eye doctors, Dr. S. Martin, Dr. Zweibel, Dr. J. Martin, and Dr. Mauro see many patients with all types of eye infections including styes and blepharitis. In Long Island New York in Suffolk and Nassau Counties, we see patients from huntington,  massapequa, brentwood, smithtown, nesconset, st james, kings park, fort salonga, centereach, selden, coram, stony brook, setauket, port jefferson, miller place, mt sinai, rocky point, nissequogue, head of the harbor, old field, belle terre, poquott, sound beach, westhampton, southampton, east hampton, sag harbor, hampton bays, jamesport, mattituck, southold, cutchogue, commack, northport, centerport, greenlawn, dix hills, melville, plainview, woodbury, syosset, bethpage, cold spring harbor, deer park, and many other towns.

 

 

Long Islanders have trusted the board certified eye doctors and eye surgeons at North Shore Eye Care in Smithtown New  York in long Island for many years.  Dr. Sidney Martin started North Shore Eye Care in 1962 back when  there were no office buildings in Smithtown in Long Island.  Quite a bit has changed since then and Smithtown is now a busy surburban town close to new york city.  Dr. Sidney Martin started with general eye care of patients with glaucoma, macular degeneration, cataracts, dry eye, diabetes and diabetic retinopathy and grew later to encompass the latest in lasik and laser eye surgery.  His son, Dr. Jeffrey Martin, along with Dr. Larry Zweibel and Dr. John Mauro round out the current board certified team of lasik surgeons and lasik doctors.  We do the very best in lasik laser eye surgery including ilasik, which is the most advanced way possible to have lasik. With ilasik, we use Intralase, a blade-free laser to make a superficial flap in the cornea.  This is the safest and most precise way to make a flap.  We then use Customvue by Visx and use a wavescan to make a waveprint or wavemap of your unique vision.  This is then placed on the cornea using automatic tracking and centering as well as iris registration.  Iris registration is a way that the laser uses the landmarks of each patient's iris to precisely place the laser vision correction ablation.  Ilasik is the state of the art way to perform lasik and the only way that our eye doctors would consider.

For their commitment to excellence in eye care, Dr. Jeff Martin and dr.Larry Zweibel have been voted "Top doctors: New York metro area" by Castle Connolly.  This award is given to the top ten percent of practicing doctors by region and by specialty.  We are thrilled to be part of the family of top doctors. 

In long island in suffolk and nassau counties, we see patients from smithtown, nesconset, saint james, kings park, fort salonga, islip, islandia, hauppauge, lake grove, ronkonkoma, bohemia, holtsville, holbrook, sayville, bay shore, babylon, commack, northport, stony brook, setauket, port jefferson, and many other towns.

North Shore Eye Care has been a leader in cataract surgery for many years.  The board certified eye doctors and eye surgeons at our smithtown new york office in long island are always trying to improve upon the state of the art outpatient surgery.  Cataract surgery is performed through a 2 millimeter incision using eye drops for anesthesia.  Our patients stay in their own clothes and return home the very same day.  We use IV sedation to keep our smithtown long island patients comfortable and our cataract surgeons perform cataract surgery in just a few minutes.  We specialize in premium implants that are designed to reduce or eliminate the need for glasses and contact lenses such as accommodating lenses like crystalens and the Acrysof Toric implant for the reduction or elimination of astigmatism.  We also use multifocal implants designed to make our suffolk county patients glasses independent.  The multifocal lens implants are the restor, rezoom, and tecnis multifocal. 

Some of our patients use blood thinners such as aspirin, coumadin, plavix or vitamin E for certain health problems.  These medications can be beneficial to blood flow and heart health, but they will make a patient bleed more freely.  In cataract surgery, there is usually no blood loss and therefore, stopping blood thinning medication is not a necessity.  However, our board certified eye doctors feel comfortable with stopping blood thinners if possible because there is always a small risk of bleeding.  That being said, Dr. Jeffrey martin, Dr. larry zweibel and dr. john mauro have performed cataract surgery on many patients on full anticoagulation without a problem.  It is important that you discuss blood thinners with your primary care doctor before stopping the use of these medications.

In long island in suffolk and nassau counties, we see patients from smithtown, nesconset, saint james, kings park, huntington, cold spring harbor, commack, northport, centerport, greenlawn, dix hills, melville, deer park, massapequa, lindenhurst, sayville, bay shore, babylon, farmingdale, plainview, bethpage, syosset, woodbury, roslyn, jericho, westbury, rockville center, garden city, east meadow, merrick, manhasset, glen cove, great neck, manhattan, bronx, brooklyn  and queens.

Laser vision correction has been popular in Long island new york for over a decade.  The board certified eye doctors and eye surgeons at north Shore Eye Care in smithtown new york have been leaders in lasik and advanced surface ablation for years and continue to offer the very best in lasik laser eye surgery.  Our lasik surgeons and lasik doctors use the best techniques including bladeless custom lasik or ilasik.  In ilasik, a blade-free flap is made in the superficial layers of the cornea using Intralase.  Intralase is a laser that makes the safest and most precise flap in the cornea in lasik.  The Visx laser then uses Customvue, which creates a detailed map of your eye called a waveprint or wavemap.  The wavescan creates this fingerprint of your vision and then uses that to correct vision.  This type of custom lasik uses automatic centering and automatic tracking for the very best results and we also use iris registration in all cases possible so that exact centration and placement of the laser vision correction is possible. 

Dr. Jeffrey Martin and Dr. Zweibel have been included in "Top Doctors: New York Metro Area" by Castle connolly for years and have enjoyed the eye care field of practice.  Dr. Sidney Martin, the founder of the eye care practice and Dr. John Mauro, our newest associate also enjoy the latest in bladeless custom lasik and advanced surface ablation.  We offer zero percent financing for two years through Care Credit for those patients that wish to spread the payment over time.  We also encourage flex spending which allows employees of a company to enjoy lasik eye surgery tax free.

In long island new york in nassau and suffolk county, we see patients from smithtown, nesconset, saint james, kings park, centereach, selden, coram, middle island, ridge, riverhead, stony brook, setauket, port jefferson, shoreham, wading river, miller place, mt sinai, port jefferson, patchogue, medford, brookhaven, bellport, bayport, farmingville, farmingdale, holtsville, yaphank, shirley, mastic, moriches, manorville, calverton, eastport, westhampton,hampton bays, quogue, southampton, east hampton, montauk, amagansett, jamesport, cutchogue, mattituck, southold, greenport and many other towns.

Diabetes is a condition where the body does not produce adequate  insulin or cannot use insulin properly. Insulin is a hormone that breaks down glucose (sugar) so that it can be used by the body. The body's problem with in not making enough insulin causes the level of glucose in the blood to rise. This can cause a wide range of complications, including retinopathy, neuropathy and nephropathy. People with diabetes are at risk of developing a complication called diabetic retinopathy. Diabetic retinopathy affects the blood vessels supplying the retina – the seeing part of the eye.  The vessels in the retina of the eye can become blocked, start to leak and/or grow abnormally like weeds.   This damage eventually can lead to permanent damage to the retina if left untreated.

Diabetic retinopathy is a common amongst diabetics and is one of the leading causes of blindness in adults under the age of 65. It is estimated that approximately 25% of people with type 1 diabetes will have some form of diabetic retinopathy five to ten years after their symptoms develop. If diabetic retinopathy is diagnosed and treated in a timely manner, the prognosis is good. Early stage diabetic retinopathy can usually be treated by bringing your diabetes under better control. More advanced diabetic retinopathy can require medical and/or laser surgery to prevent further damage to the eyes.

It is important to keep blood glucose, blood pressure and cholesterol levels under control. This drastically reduces the risk of developing retinopathy.  But, your best protection against retinopathy is having your eyes examined regularly, with photography when you are first diagnosed and then every year.

At North Shore Eye Care, our board certified eye doctors, Dr. S. Martin, Dr. Zweibel, Dr. J. Martin, and Dr. Mauro see many patients with diabetes.  In Long Island (Suffolk and Nassau Counties), we see patients from smithtown, nesconset, saint james, kings park, centereach, selden, coram, middle island, riverhead, ridge, stony brook, setauket, port jefferson, shoreham, wading river, miller place, mt sinai, rocky point, patchogue, medford, farmingdale, farmingville, bellport, bayport, blue point, yaphank, brookhaven, shirley, mastic, moriches, manorville, calverton, jamesport, cutchogue, mattituck, southold, eastport, westhampton, east hampton, southampton, sag harbor, montauk, amagansett, hampton bays, kings park, islandia, islip, hauppauge, lake grove, bohemia, ronkonkoma, holtsville, holbrook, sayville, commack, stony brook, setauket, port jefferson, nissequogue, head of the harbor, old field, poquott, belle terre, fort salonga huntington,  northport, cold spring harbor, dix hills, melville, deer park, centerport, greenlawn, plainview woodbury, syosset, bethpage, massapequa, lindenhurst, sayville, bay shore, babylon, roslyn, great neck, manhasset, east meadow, merrick, rockville center, garden city, mineola, and many other towns including queens, brooklyn, manhattan.

 

 

Cataract surgery  involves replacing the natural lens within the eye with a new  a new artificial lens.  While most people think this is an operation for only the elderly, a surprising number of people are candidates for this procedure even as early as when they enter their forties.  Trauma, diabetes, steroid antiinflammatory medication, and heredity are often the cause for early cataract formation.  Often patients are confused as to when cataract surgery is appropriate for them.  A term often used by patients when questioning their surgeons is "are my cataracts ripe enough."  This term however, can lead to confusion  since it is somewhat arbitrary as to just when the cataract became "ripe."  A more realistic way of judging the appropriateness for surgery is when you notice increasing difficulty performing daily activities such as reading or driving a car.

Once you have made the decision that cataract surgery is right for you it is very important that you pick the right surgeon.  Not only does he need experience in all the latest techniques, but in consultation you should feel that he is caring and willing to spend the time with you so that you feel all your questions have been answered.  The surgeons at Norh Shore Eye Care in Smithtown, Long Island all have extensive experience with cataract, microsurgery.   Sidney Martin was the first surgeon in Smithtown to perform cataract surgery approximately 50 years ago.  Presently performing cataract surgery at Northshore Eye Care are Lawrence Zweibel who was the first person in Smithtown to simultaneously implant an intraocular lens at the time of cataract surgery in 1976, Jeffrey Martin who is Dr. Sidney Martin's son, and John Mauro who is also well known as an ocular immunologist.  All of the above surgeons are board certified physicians.

At  Northshore Eye Care we serve patients from all over Long Island including the 5 burroughs of New York.   In western Long Island we serve the townships of Manhasset, Port Washington, Great Neck, Hewlet, Garden City, Lawrence, Merrick, Mineola as well as other townships in Nassau County.  In Suffolk County we serve  Melville, Dix Hills, Huntington and Cold Spring Harbor, Norhport, Dix Hills, Commack, Smithtown, Stony Brook, Islip, Brentwood, Port Jefferson, Patchogue, Riverhead, the Hamptons, Sag Harbor, Jamestown, Mattituck as well as many other villages and townships in Suffolk County.

 

 

North Shore Eye Care has been at the forefront of cataract surgery for many years.  Cataract surgery is a quick and painless outpatient procedure in most cases.  Our Smithtown new York patients are able to stay in their own clothes and return to the comfort of their home the very same day.  Cataract surgery is performed through a microscopic incision using gentle computer controlled ultrasound called phacoemulsfication.  After the cloudy lens of the eye or cataract is removed a small intraocular lens or IOL is placed to restore vision.  Dr. Jeffrey Martin, Dr. Larry Zweibel and Dr. John Mauro are all board certified and specialize in advanced cataract surgery including premium implants.  We specialize in accommodating implants like crystalens and are a National Crystalens Cataract Surgery Center of Excellence.  Our board certified eye doctors and eye surgeons constantly strive for excellence and continually advance technique and technology.  Dr. Jeff Martin and Dr. Zweibel have both been included as Top Doctors in the New York Metro Area by Castle Connolly for the past few years.

In patients that take Flomax, it is important that the cataract surgeon know that information.  Flomax is a prostate medication that relaxes the muscle of the prostate allowing men to have more regular urinary flow.  The muscle of the iris of the eye has very similar receptors to those in the prostate.  The significance of this is that patients on flomax often do not dilate well for cataract surgery and can even lose their dilation in the middle of the cataract surgery.  If the cataract surgeon is not prepared, it can make the surgery more difficult and more dangerous.  Our eye doctors are experts in cataract surgery with flomax and rountinely use devices that ensure adequate dilation during cataract surgery.  This makes even a flomax cataract surgery completely routine.  Our Long island patients are lucky to have such a state of the art eye care practice so close to home.

In Long Island in nassau and suffolk counties, we see patients from smithtown, nesconset, saint james, kings park, islip, islandia, hauppauge, lake grove, bohemia, ronkonkoma, holtsville, holbrook, sayville, lindenhurst, commack, northport, huntington, stony brook, setauket, port jefferson, centereach, head of the harbor, nissequogue, poquott, belle terre, old field and many other towns.

 

Glaucoma is the second leading cause of blindness in the United States. It is one of the  leading causes of blindness among African-Americans, and the leading cause of PREVENTABLE blindness in the United States. It's estimated that over 2 million Americans have glaucoma, and at least half of them are not aware they have the disease. Glaucoma is the name given to an eye disease in which the optic nerve at the back of the eye is slowly destroyed by damage due to an increased pressure inside the eye. Usually a result of blockage of the circulation of the fluid inside the eye called aqueous humor. It may also occur due to inadequate drainage. In some patients the damage may be caused by a weakness in the structure of the optic nerve, and/or a problem in the blood supply to the vital optic nerve fibers.  Damage usually progresses very slowly and destroys vision gradually, starting with the peripheral vision. Usually, early damage can be masked because one eye covers for the other, and the person may remain unaware of any problem until a majority of nerve has been damaged, and a large part of vision has been destroyed. This damage is irreversible. Glaucoma can be progressive and usually relentless unless treated appropriately. Treatment cannot recover what has been lost but can arrest, or at least slow the progression.

Glaucoma can occur at any age but occurs more frequently during advancing years. It is very important to detect the problem as early as possible, to be able to start treatment with as little damage to the vision as possible. Individuals who are at more risk to develop glaucoma include: family history of glaucoma, diabetes, farsightedness, previous eye injuries, high blood pressure and chronic use of steroids. Annual eye exams are the standard in early detection. Various tests such as optic nerve examination, visual field assessment, eye pressure check, scanning of the optic nerve and corneal thickness examination are usually performed for diagnosis and to monitor disease progression.

Treatment is initiated with medication in the form of drops that must be used regularly and/or laser therapy (called SLT). There are surgical treatments as well, but these are usually reserved for patients who either do not respond to medical therapy, are not compliant with there treatment regimen or have advanced disease.

At North Shore Eye Care, our board certified eye doctors, Dr. S. Martin, Dr. Zweibel, Dr. J. Martin, and Dr. Mauro see many patients with glaucoma. In Long Island (Suffolk and Nassau Counties), we see patients from smithtown, nesconset, saint james, kings park, centereach, selden, coram, middle island, riverhead, ridge, stony brook, setauket, port jefferson, shoreham, wading river, miller place, mt sinai, rocky point, patchogue, medford, farmingdale, farmingville, bellport, bayport, blue point, yaphank, brookhaven, shirley, mastic, moriches, manorville, calverton, jamesport, cutchogue, mattituck, southold, eastport, westhampton, east hampton, southampton, sag harbor, montauk, amagansett, hampton bays, kings park, islandia, islip, hauppauge, lake grove, bohemia, ronkonkoma, holtsville, holbrook, sayville, commack, stony brook, setauket, port jefferson, nissequogue, head of the harbor, old field, poquott, belle terre, fort salonga huntington,  northport, cold spring harbor, dix hills, melville, deer park, centerport, greenlawn, plainview woodbury, syosset, bethpage, massapequa, lindenhurst, sayville, bay shore, babylon, roslyn, great neck, manhasset, east meadow, merrick, rockville center, garden city, mineola, and many other towns including queens, brooklyn, manhattan.

 

North Shore eye care was founded in 1962 by Dr. Sidney Martin, a board certified eye surgeon that was raised in the new york metro area.  Dr. Martin started his practice in smithtown new york to take care of Long Islanders with glaucoma, macular degeneration, diabetes and diabetic retinopathy, cataracts, dry eye, uveitis and other eye care problems.  North Shore Eye Care grew with Long Island and eventually Dr. Martin was joined by Dr. Lawrence Zweibel and later his son, Dr. Jeffrey Martin.  Today, Dr. John Mauro is the latest member of the eye doctors and eye surgeons at our eye care practice. 

With the advent of Laser vision correction and lasik, North Shore Eye's lasik surgeons and lasik doctors have lead the way in laser eye surgery in Suffolk and Nassau County in Long Island.  We perform only the best in lasik including bladeless custom lasik with Intralase and Customvue.  The significance of ilasik is that Intralase is a laser that makes the safest flaps and most precise flaps as the first step of lasik.  There are no more blade machines at North Shore Eye Care.  We then use Customvue with automatic centering and tracking that includes iris registration.  With customvue, the laser gets a waveprint which is like a fingerprint of your vision.  That laser vision is precisely placed on your cornea using your particular iris landmarks.  This leads to the very best results for all of our patients.

In Long Island new york in suffolk and nassau counties, we see patients from smithtown, nesconset, saint james, kings park, fort salonga, huntington, commack, northport, centerport, greenlawn, dix hills, melville, lindenhurst, bay shore, babylon, massapequa, merrick, plainview, farmingdale, farmingville, woodbury, syosset, bethpage, cold spring harbor, garden city, rockville center, east meadow, roslyn, great neck, muttontown, mineola, levittown, new york city, manhattan, brooklyn, queens, and many other towns.

Spring time is coming and that spells flower buds, blooming trees — and for the many people who have springtime allergies, it means runny nose, sneezing, congestion, eye irritation, tearing and itching. Seasonal allergies occur during certain times of the year from exposure to certain airborne substances (pollen), particularly the spring, summer, or fall—depending on the particular allergy.  

Symptoms usually involve  the membrane lining the nose, causing allergic rhinitis, and  the membrane lining the eyelids and covering the whites of the eyes (conjunctiva), causing allergic conjunctivitis. In the spring, wind-borne pollen from trees such as alder, birch, juniper, oak, maple, elm come across frequently. As Spring finishes and turns to Summer, different types of grasses play a key role, such as orchard, bermuda, timothy, johnson, and weeds such as English plantain and Russian thistle. As Fall comes around, ragweed is the key culprit. Signs and symptoms of allergies tend worsen on  hot, dry or windy days when there is significant  pollen and mold in the air. Treatment can include but is not limited to, antihistamines, decongestants, and corticosteroids. These may either be in the form of eye drops, nasal sprays or oral medications. It is important to remember that avoidance of certain triggers can be your best friend.

There are a few things that you can do to reduce your exposure to your allergy triggers. Limit your pets access to your bed as pollen sticks to animal fur. If you are doing outside chores, such as gardening or mowing the lawn, wear a dust mask. Dry windy days as mentioned before are worse than a good rainy day which helps remove pollen from the air. Checking local news or radio stations for pollen counts help as well. Its always recommended to use a micron allergy grade filter in the house ventilation system if applicable. We tend to advocate using a high-efficiency particulate air (HEPA) filter in the bedroom. Carpets unfortunately while much more comforting when you get out of bed on a cold winter morning, tend to carry a crop load of dust, dirt and various potential allergens. It is recommended that they be vacuumed and cleaned regularly.

 At North Shore Eye Care, our board certified eye doctors, Dr. S. Martin, Dr. Zweibel, Dr. J. Martin, and Dr. Mauro see many patients with allergies all year round. Every patient responds differently to certain treatments and that is why a full eye exam can help diagnose underlying allergic eye disease. In Long Island (Suffolk and Nassau Counties), we see patients from Smithtown, nesconset, saint james, kings park, centereach, selden, coram, middle island, riverhead, ridge, stony brook, setauket, port jefferson, shoreham, wading river, miller place, mt sinai, rocky point, patchogue, medford, farmingdale, farmingville, bellport, bayport, blue point, yaphank, brookhaven, shirley, mastic, moriches, manorville, calverton, jamesport, cutchogue, mattituck, southold, eastport, westhampton, east hampton, southampton, sag harbor, montauk, amagansett, hampton bays, kings park, islandia, islip, hauppauge, lake grove, bohemia, ronkonkoma, holtsville, holbrook, sayville, commack, stony brook, setauket, port jefferson, nissequogue, head of the harbor, old field, poquott, belle terre, fort salonga huntington,  northport, cold spring harbor, dix hills, melville, deer park, centerport, greenlawn, plainview woodbury, syosset, bethpage, massapequa, lindenhurst, sayville, bay shore, babylon, roslyn, great neck, manhasset, east meadow, merrick, rockville center, garden city, mineola, and many other towns including queens, brooklyn, manhattan.

Laser vision correction has become very popular over the past decade.  The eye doctors and eye surgeons at North Shore eye Care in Smithtown New York in long island have been at the forefront of lasik laser eye surgery during that time.  Our lasik doctors and lasik surgeons use only the best techniques including bladeless custom lasik or ilasik.  With ilasik, our board ceritified eye surgeons use Intralase, a blade free flap laser, to create a flap in the superficial layers of the cornea.  We then use Visx Customvue to do the laser vision correction.  With Customvue, we use a wavescan that creates a custom fingerprint of your vision which then automatically centers and tracks eye movements during the lasik procedure.  We also use iris registration in every case so that the lasik laser eye surgery is placed precisely where it should be.  With this method of Intralasik, the results are the best that they can be.

Some of our lasik patients are now reaching the age where cataract surgery is becoming necessary.  With cataract surgery, we use a small incision to remove the cloudy of defective lens of the eye and replace it with an intraocular implant or IOL to restore vision.  Dr. Martin, Dr. Zweibel and Dr. Mauro specialize in cataract surgery and use the most advanced techniques including no-stitch, no-patch, no-needle cataract surgery.  We use state of the art implants such as crystalens, restor, rezoom, and tecnis multifocal that are designed to give the best near and far vision without using glasses in many cases.

After lasik, the cornea has been changed.  The formulas that we use to calculate intraocular lens power is based on an unaltered cornea.  It is very important that your cataract surgeon know that you have had lasik and that he or she knows how to alter the formulas so that the implant power adjustment can be used to get the best result.  The eye doctors at North Shore Eye Care in long island new york have vast experience in making sure that our lasik patients are just as successful with cataract surgery.

In long island new york in suffolk and nassau counties, we see patients from patchogue, medford, bayport, bellport, yaphank, shirley, mastic, moriches, brookhaven, centereach, selden, coram, middle island, ridge, riverhead, shoreham, wading river, miller place, mt sinai, rocky point, stony brook, setauket, port jefferson, manorville, calverton, jamesport, cutchogue, mattituck, southold, eastport, westhampton, quogue, east hampton, hampton bays, amagansett, montauk, sag harbor, quogue, and many other towns.

Cataract surgery has been performed at North Shore Eye Care in Smithtown New York on Long Island since Dr. Sidney Martin founded the practice in 1960. Today, North Shore Eye Care is a modern eye care practice that specializes in advanced cataract surgery and laser vision correction. Technology has revolutionized cataract surgery making it a safer, more successful surgery. Dr. Lawrence Zweibel, Dr. Jeffrey Martin and Dr. John Mauro all use state of the art cataract surgery and laser vision correction procedures. In cataract surgery, the cloudy lens of the eye or cataract is removed using phacoemulsification or computer controlled high speed ultrasound through a small incision that seals without stitches. No eye patch is necessary in most cases and needles around the eye are also not necessary. Our patients return home the very same day and experience no pain in most cases. Our board certified eye doctors and eye surgeons, Dr. Zweibel, Dr. Martin, and Dr. Mauro all specialize in intraocular implant technology including accommodating lenses like the Crystalens and the Crystalens HD. We also use multifocal implants like the Restor and the Tecnis multifocal lens. The Acrysof Toric implant reduces or eliminates astigmatism in most cases and our patients with these premium implants are able to see well without the need of glasses or contact lenses. 

 

How do I find a good eye surgeon?  It is important when finding a cataract surgeon to look at several things. The cataract surgeon should specialize in cataract surgery and perform many cataract surgery operations each year. The cataract surgeon should be current in his/her knowledge and be using the latest and best techniques. A patient should make sure that the cataract surgeon uses small incisions, usually without stitches. Most modern cataract surgeons no longer use needle injections around the eye routinely. Most modern cataract surgeons do not use an eye patch routinely following surgery. Cataract surgery should be completed without pain and quickly, routinely lasting about 10 minutes or so. There are always more complicated situations, but we are speaking of the routine standard cataract surgery. Lastly, I believe that a patient should feel very comfortable with their doctor/surgeon. Bedside manner, personality, kinfness, respect are absolutely necessary.  This is what we believe is essential for building relationships for life.

In Long Island (Suffolk and Nassau Counties), we see patients from Smithtown, nesconset, saint james, kings park, centereach, selden, coram, middle island, riverhead, ridge, stony brook, setauket, port jefferson, shoreham, wading river, miller place, mt sinai, rocky point, patchogue, medford, farmingdale, farmingville, bellport, bayport, blue point, yaphank, brookhaven, shirley, mastic, moriches, manorville, calverton, jamesport, cutchogue, mattituck, southold, eastport, westhampton, east hampton, southampton, sag harbor, montauk, amagansett, hampton bays, kings park, islandia, islip, hauppauge, lake grove, bohemia, ronkonkoma, holtsville, holbrook, sayville, commack, stony brook, setauket, port jefferson, nissequogue, head of the harbor, old field, poquott, belle terre, fort salonga huntington,  northport, cold spring harbor, dix hills, melville, deer park, centerport, greenlawn, plainview woodbury, syosset, bethpage, massapequa, lindenhurst, sayville, bay shore, babylon, roslyn, great neck, manhasset, east meadow, merrick, rockville center, garden city, mineola, and many other towns including queens, brooklyn, manhattan.

North Shore Eye Care was founded in 1962 by Dr. Sidney Martin in Smithtown New York in Long Island's Suffolk county.  Dr. Martin, a board certified eye doctor and eye surgeon started his eye care center to take care of Long Islanders with glaucoma, cataracts, macular degeneration, dry eye, uveitis, diabetes and diabetic retinopathy as well as laser eye surgery later in the 1970s.  The eye care practice grew quickly and Dr. Martin took on Dr. Larry Zweibel and later, his son Dr. Jeffrey Martin.  Recently, the eye care practice took in Dr. John Mauro, a comprehensive ophthalmologist who specializes in uveitis and intraocular inflammation.  North Shore Eye Care has been a leader in cataract surgery with their board certified cataract surgeons and cataract doctors for many years.  We perform cataract surgery by an advanced technique including no stitches, no needles and no eye patch.  We use IV sedation and numbing eye drops to relax our patients, who are able to stay in their own comfortable clothes and return home the very same day.  We use gentle ultrasound or phacoemulsification to remove the defective lens or cataract and then replace the cloudy lens with an intraocular lens implants.  The new implants have been a wonderful addition to our armamentarium including the premium implants that reduce the need for glasses and contact lenses.  We use the accommodating lens, crystalens as well as the multifocal lenses, restor, rezoom, and tecnis multifocal.  These lenses help patients to see far and near without the use of glasses or contact lenses.  We also use standard implants in many patients that desire good distance vision without glasses. 

Sometimes, the capsule that holds the new implant becomes cloudy over several months.  This is a normal part of healing.  Some patients heal and the capsule remains clear and others become only slightly hazy.  If the capsule clarity interferes with the quality of vision, we suggest Yag Capsulotomy.  With yag capsulotomy, we use a gentle laser right in the office to open up the central part of the capsule.  This is painless and takes about one minute.  About one third of patients that have cataract surgery require a yag capsulotomy.  If it is necessary, patients return to  normal activity immediately after the day of the laser.

In long island new york in suffolk and nassau county, we see patients from smithtown, nesconset, saint james, kings park, islip, islandia, hauppauge, lake grove, bohemia, ronkonkoma, sayville, lindenhurst, commack, northport, stony brook, setauket, port jefferson, centereach, nissequogue, head of the harbor, old field, poquott, belle terre, sound beach, fort salonga, and many other towns.

Laser eye surgery has been one of the most successful outpatient procedures in recent times.  With bladeless custom lasik or ilasik, our smithtown new york patients in suffolk and nassau counties of long island benefit from the best lasik technology in the world right here in their home town.  The board certified eye doctors and eye surgeons at North Shore Eye Care specialize in the best in lasik laser vision correction and they have been recognized for their commitment to excellence.  Dr. Jeffrey Martin and Dr. Lawrence Zweibel have been awarded Top Doctor status by Castle Connolly, a medical research company for the last several years.  Our board certified lasik surgeons have vast experience and use only the best technology.  We use all blade-free lasik using Intralase to make the most precise and safest flap possible.  We then use Visx Customvue with Iris Registration for the best result possible.  The laser automatically tracks and automatically centers and in that way, provides the best in lasik laser eye surgery.  There are less advanced lasik procedures, but at North Shore Eye Care, we do only the best.

Paying for lasik can be difficult for patients, especially in this economy.  That is why we offer zero percent financing through Care Credit for all of our laser vision correction patients.  You can apply over the internet right in our office.  Our surgical coordinators help our patients through the application process and we do the best we can to get you approved.  Many patients love the fact that with financing, they can pay the laser vision correction off over time without incurring expensive financing fees.

In long island new york in suffolk and nassau counties, we see patients from cold spring harbor, huntington, commack, northport, dix hills, melville, deer park, centerport, greenlawn, massapequa, lindenhurst, bay shore, babylon, plainview, bethpage, woodbury, syosset, manhasset, jericho, merrick, east meadow, rockville center, garden city, roslyn, manhattan, new york city, brooklyn, bronx, queens, and many other towns.

Uveitis is inflammation anywhere in lining of the eye, known as the uvea, or uveal tract. The inflammation is named according to its location, as anterior uveitis, intermediate uveitis, posterior uveitis, or panuveitis (or inflammation that affects the entire uveal tract). Sometimes, uveitis is referred to by the name of the specific part that is inflamed—for example, iritis (inflammation of the iris), choroiditis (inflammation of the choroid), or chorioretinitis (inflammation that involves both the choroid and the overlying retina). Uveitis can occur because of infection, autoimmune disorders (which causes the body to attack its own tissues), or for unknown reasons.

Examples of autoimmune disorders include; Anklosing Spondylitis, Antiphospholipid Syndrome, Addison’s Disease, Hepatitis, Behcet’s Disease, Pemphigoid, Crohn’s Disease, Dermatomyositis, Lupus, Fibromyalgia, Grave’s Disease, Juvenile Arthritis, Multiple Sclerosis, Myasthenia Gravis, Polyarteritis Nodosa, Polymyalgia Rheumatica, Psoriasis, Reiter’s Syndrome, Rheumatoid Arthritis, Sarcoidosis, Scleroderma, Sjogren’s Syndrome, Temporal Arteritis/Giant Cell Arteritis, Ulcerative Colitis, Wegener’s Granulomatosis. Infections include tuberculosis, syphilis, Lyme disease, herpes simplex virus, shingles (varicella-zoster virus), toxoplasmosis, and cytomegalovirus.

Symptoms of uveitis including eye pain and aching, eye redness, sensitivity to bright light, flashing lights, loss of peripheral vision, or blurred vision and floaters are typical. A eye physician may be able to see prominent blood vessels on the surface of the eye or cornea, white blood cells floating in the fluid that fills the front part of the eye (aqueous humor), and deposits of white blood cells on the inside surface of the cornea.

An eye physician makes the diagnosis and treatment based on the symptoms and a complete physical examination. Depending on suspicion for diseases that also affects other organs, appropriate tests are done. Uveitis is a serious eye disease and can rapidly damage the eye. It can cause long-term, vision-threatening complications, such as glaucoma, and cataracts. Many people have only one episode of uveitis. Others may have periodic recurrences over months to years. All patients with a history of autoimmune disorders should be seen regularly by an eye doctor.

The ophthalmologists at North Shore Eye Care  have consistently been recognized in Castle Connelly's book of Top Doctors. All of the surgeons are board certified by the American Board of Ophthalmology.  More recently Dr. John Mauro has joined the practice and is well recognized for his work in ocular immunology and inflammation, allergic disease and auto-immune disorders.

In Long Island (Suffolk and Nassau Counties), we see patients from Smithtown, nesconset, saint james, kings park, centereach, selden, coram, middle island, riverhead, ridge, stony brook, setauket, port jefferson, shoreham, wading river, miller place, mt sinai, rocky point, patchogue, medford, farmingdale, farmingville, bellport, bayport, blue point, yaphank, brookhaven, shirley, mastic, moriches, manorville, calverton, jamesport, cutchogue, mattituck, southold, eastport, westhampton, east hampton, southampton, sag harbor, montauk, amagansett, hampton bays and many other towns.

 North Shore Eye Care was founded by Dr. Sidney Martin in 1962 in Smithtown New York in Long Island.  As a board certified eye doctor and eye surgeon, he opened his eye care practice to care for patients with cataracts, macular degeneration, diabetes and diabetic retinopathy, glaucoma, dry eye, and lid problems.  He built the practice based on the principles of commitment to excellence in eye care and eye surgery.  Today, North Shore Eye Care is located in Suffolk County of Long Island and includes three more board certified cataract and lasik surgeons, Dr. Jeffrey Martin, Dr. Larry Zweibel, and Dr. John Mauro.  All of our eye doctors are committed to the very best in cataract surgery and lasik laser eye surgery.  Dr. Martin and Dr. Zweibel have been voted as Top Doctors in the New York Metro Area by Castle Connolly ltd and North Shore Eye Care has been deemed a Crystalens National Center of Excellence by Bausch and Lomb.

 

The cost of cataract surgery is considerable, but in most cases insurance companies and Medicare cover the majority of the cost.  A cataract surgery takes a few minutes in skilled hands and our patients do not have needles around the eyes, stitches or an eye patch.  Our board certified cataract surgeons have been on the cutting edge of technology and technique for years and Dr. Jeff Martin teaches cataract surgery to resident eye doctors at the Va hospital at Northport.  If you decide to have a premium intraocular implant with cataract surgery so that you do not need glasses for near or far, our doctors specialize in these implants.  We use Crystalens, the accommodating implant as well as Acrysof Toric to reduce or eliminate astigmatism.  Also available are multifocal implants like rezoom, restor, and tecnis multifocal.

 

In Long Island New York in Suffolk and Nassau Counties, we see patients from Smithtown, nesconset, saint james, kings park, centereach, selden, coram, middle island, riverhead, ridge, stony brook, setauket, port jefferson, shoreham, wading river, miller place, mt sinai, rocky point, patchogue, medford, farmingdale, farmingville, bellport, bayport, blue point, yaphank, brookhaven, shirley, mastic, moriches, manorville, calverton, jamesport, cutchogue, mattituck, southold, eastport, westhampton, east hampton, southampton, sag harbor, montauk, amagansett, hampton bays and many other towns.

 

Lasik surgery has acheived new levels of success with most patients achieving 20l20 vision often exceeding the vision they had wearing their best correction either with glasses or contact lenses.  This is due largely to the advances in lasik, coined ILasik.  Perhaps one of the most important of the innovations is known as customvue which offers a unique and individualized way of analyzing and treating the correction that each eye requires.  Using space age technology such as what was used with the Hubble telescope that took such remarkable pictures in deep space, light rays reflected from the eye are analyzed and then treated using fine laser spots that reshape the cornea of the eye. This is all done under a flap that allows for extremely fast healing, so fast in fact, that most people see 20/20 or better the very next morning.

So come to North Shore Eye care located in Smithtown, Long Island where the laser experts  will be happy to explain the procedure to you with a no fee consultation.  This consultation is not only informative  but also allows you to know if you are a good candidate for the procedure since a comprehensive screening process is offered at the time of the visit.  The surgeons at this facility have been performing lasik for will over 10 years having performed thousands of cases.  All of the surgeons are board certified by the American Board of Ophthalmology and Drs. Zweibel and Martin have consistently been recognized in Castle Connelly's book of Top Doctors.  More recently Dr. John Mauro has joined the practice and is well recognized for his work in ocular immunology and inflammation.

At Northshore Eye Care we serve patients thruout Long Island, from the most Eastern areas of the Hamptons including Riverhead, Speonk and other areas of the north shore such as Mattituck and Jamesport to the middle of the Island including Stoney Brook, Smithtown, Huntington, Babylon, Melville, Cold Spring Harbor, Kings Park to the westernmost areas of the isand such as Port Washington, Manhassat, Roslyn, Lawrence, Merrick, Wantagh, Hewett, Long Beach and still further west into New York City.

 Lasik has been a popular outpatient laser eye surgery procedure for many years.  The most modern form of lasik is the only form of lasik provided by the board certified lasik doctors and lasik surgeons at North Shore Eye Care in Smithtown New York in Long Island.  Our eye doctors and eye surgeons do all bladeless custom lasik or ilasik.  The lasik laser vision correction part of the procedure is custom using wavefront for the most accurate result.  We use a Wavescan to create a waveprint or wavemap.  This custom pattern automatically centers and automatically tracks your eye movements and also uses iris registration for the most precise centration.  The great thing about wavefront with lasik is that it corrects all of the visual irregularities from the front of the eye to the back.  Before wavefront, we only corrected the prescription in your glasses such as nearsightedness, farsightedness, and astigmatism, but not the higher irregularities of your vision called trefoil, comma, and spherical aberration.  The wavescan has many small lenses that shine into your eye and get a reflection back from the back of the eye and by passing through the entire eye, it picks up all of the visual patterns.  By doing this along with iris registration, the lasik laser vision correction results in our Long Island new York patients is better than ever.

 

Dr. Jeffrey Martin and Dr. Larry Zweibel have been voted Top Doctors in the New York Metro Area by Castle Connolly ltd.  Only the top ten percent of doctors in each region are represented in the list put out by this medical research company.  It shows North Shore Eye Care's commitment to excellence in the fields of eye care and eye surgery.

 

In Long Island New York in Suffolk and Nassau Counties, we see patients from smithtown, nesconset, saint james, kings park, islandia, islip, hauppauge, lake grove, bohemia, ronkonkoma, holtsville, holbrook, sayville, commack, stony brook, setauket, port jefferson, nissequogue, head of the harbor, old field, poquott, belle terre, fort salonga, and many other towns.

Cataract surgery has been a very successful outpatient procedure for years.  A cataract is a clouding of the natural crystalline lens of the eye.  As the lens of the eye becomes more cloudy with age, patients complain of glare with headlights at night, glare with sunlight and general blurred vision.  When the cataract get to the point that it is interfering with quality of life, our board certified cataract doctors and cataract surgeons suggest cataract surgery.  Cataract surgery is performed at our Long Island New York eye surgical center.  Our patients from Smithtown and surrounding towns are able to stay in their own comfortable clothes and receive IV sedation to relax.  Our eye doctors and eye surgeons use eye drops for anesthesia and rarely use eye patches or stitches.  There are usually no needles around the eyes and patients are able to return home the very same day.  When the cataract is removed, we replace the defective lens with an intraocular implant or IOL.  This implant can be the standard type of a premium implant that allows for far and near vision without glasses.  Our long island patients have enjoyed accommodating implants like the crystalens and multifocal lenses like the restor, rezoom and tecnis multifocal.  We also use Acrysof toric implants to reduce or eliminate astigmatism.  To help with the cost of these more expensive implants, we offer zero percent financing for two years through Care Credit.

Recovery from cataract surgery is quite easy in most cases.  We have our patients use eye drops to prevent infection and reduce inflammation for a couple of weeks.  We tell our patients that they can return to normal activity after a few days, but can do almost anything right away.  Some of the premium implants take some time to get used to like a new pair of glasses, but our patients have been quite happy with the improvement in vision they have with Crystalens and toric.  Dr. Jeffrey Martin and Dr. Larry Zweibel have been voted Top Doctors: New York Metro Area by Castle Connolly ltd and North Shore Eye Care has been deemed a National Crystalens Center of Excellence by Bausch And Lomb.

In Long Island New york in suffolk and Nassau counties, we see patients from smithtown, nesconset, saint james, kings park, huntington, commack, northport, cold spring harbor, dix hills, melville, deer park, centerport, greenlawn, plainview woodbury, syosset, bethpage, massapequa, lindenhurst, sayville, bay shore, babylon, roslyn, great neck, manhasset, east meadow, merrick, rockville center, garden city, mineola, and many other towns including queens, brooklyn, new york city, manhattan, and many other towns.

At North Shore Eye Care in Smithtown New York in Long Island, we offer the best in laser vision correction.  Our board certified lasik doctors and lasik surgeons have been performing bladeless custom lasik or ilasik for years and have always been in the forefront of laser vision correction.  When Dr. Jeffrey Martin and Dr. Larry Zweibel starting doing lasik years ago, the procedure was not yet refined to the degree it is today.  Today, in lasik, we make our flaps with Intralase, a blade free laser that makes the most accurate and safest flaps possible.  We then do Visx Customvue to correct nearsightedness, farsightedness, and astigmatism.  Our Visx laser automatically centers, automatically tracks and uses iris registration for the best results possible.  Iris registration is a process that uses the patient's unique iris landmarks to exactly place the laser eye surgery ablation.  These custom and bladeless lasik laser eye surgery procedures are enjoyed by our Long Island patients every week. 

Some patients do not qualify for custom lasik for a number of reasons.  As  a matter of fact, about 30 percent of our patients have one of several types of advanced surface ablation.  Surface ablation is the same custom laser vision correction without the flap part of the procedure.  Patients with advanced surface ablation such as PRK, epilasik, or lasek, patients get the same exact excellent visual result, but do need to wait a bit longer for the final result.  There is also more discomfort in the first couple of days healing.  Our patients that have thin corneas, irregular corneas, or high prescriptions tend to be better candidates for surface laser vision correction.  On your free lasik consultation, we do the appropriate testing including corneal topography, pachymetry and wavefront analysis and then discuss your options with you.

In Long Island New York in Suffolk and Nassau Counties, we see patients from smithtown, nesconset, saint james, kings park, centereach, selden, coram, middle island, ridge, riverhead, calverton, manorville, shirley, mastic, moriches, brookhaven, yaphank, bellport, bayport, patchogue, medford, jamesport, cutchogue, mattituck, southold, shoreham, wading river, stony brook, setauket, port jefferson, miller place, mt sinai, rocky point, eastport, westhampton, southampton, hampton bays, sag harbor, east hampton, amagansett, montauk, and many other towns.

Cataract surgery is a very popular outpatient procedure and North Shore Eye Care is the place in long island new york that has been a leader in cataract surgery for many years.  Our patients from smithtown new york and beyond are made comfortable in our professional and warm environment from the first day that they arrive.  We fully examine your eyes and discuss your options and if cataract surgery is warranted, our board certified cataract doctors and cataract surgeons do the very best in cataract surgery.  We perform cataract surgery at a state of the art eye surgical center.  Our patients stay in their own clothes and receive IV sedation for comfort.  The cataract surgery takes a few minutes and we do not use stitches, eye patches or needles around the eyes.  Our board certified eye doctors and eye surgeons use eye drops to numb the surface of the eye and use small incisions to remove the cataract or sloudy lens.  This is done with gentle computer controlled ultrasound called phacoemulsification.  After the cataract is removed, we place an intraocular implant or IOL to restore your vision.  We use several premium implants including crystalens, restor, rezoom, tecnis multifocal, and acrysof toric.  These premium implants are designed to reduce the need for glasses and contact lenses for all activitied including near and far vision.  For those patients that desire premium implants, we offer zero percent financing for two years if it is desired.

So when is it time to consider cataract surgery?  The symptoms of cataract include glare with oncoming headlights at night, glare with sunlight, blurred vision, decreased contrast in vision or clarity and general reduced vision.  These symptoms tend to build slowly and eventually when the symptoms begin to bother our patients and their quality of life, we decide to do cataract surgery.  Although Dr. Jeffrey Martin, Dr. Larry Zweibel and Dr. John Mauro do many cataract procedures each year, it is the patient that decides when the cataract is bad enough for them.  Depending on your visual demands, cataract surgery is performed at different times in the development of cataract. 

In long island new york in suffolk and nassau counties, we see patients from smithtown, nesconset, saint james, kings park, islip, islandia, hauppauge, lake grove, bohemia, ronkonkoma, holbrook, holtsville, sayville, bay shore, babylon, commack, centereach, stony brook, setauket, port jefferson, nissequogue, head of the harbor, old field, sound beach, belle terre, poquott, and many other towns.

Laser vision correction has been a successful laser eye surgery procedure for years and has become safer and more advanced over the years.  The eye doctors and eye surgeons at North Shore Eye Care in Smithtown New York in Long Island have been perfecting and lasik procedure and currently do all bladeless custom lasik  or ilasik.  The great thing about lasik today is that we use Intralase, a blade free laser to make our flaps in lasik.  This is the safest and most precise way to make a flap.  We use Customvue by Visx for our laser eye surgery corrections.  This uses Wavescan to get a custom fingerprint of each patient's vision called a waveprint or wavemap.  This is placed on the patients eye using iris registration, automatic centering and automatic tracking.  Ilasik is the most precise and safest way to have lasik and our long island patients benefit from that.

In some cases, doing laser vision correction without the flap or on the surface of the eye is the best way to do it.  With prk, lasek, or epilasik, the laser vision correction is still custom, but there is no flap.  With advanced surface ablation, healing time is a bit longer and there is usually more discomfort for a couple of days.  However, the final visual result is the same.  Our patients that have thin corneas, irregular corneas, or high prescriptions sometimes benefit from surface laser vision correction because it can be safer in those clinical situations.  Also, some patients with severe dry eye can benefit from surface laser vision correction.  In your free lasik consultation with one of our board certified lasik surgeons and lasik doctors, we will discuss your specific ocular situation in your eye examination to best inform you of your options.

In Long island new york in suffolk and nassau counties, we see patients from smithtown, nesconset, saint james, kings park, fort salonga, cold spring harbor, huntington, commack, northport, greenlawn, centerport, deer park, dix hills, melville, sayville, babylon, bay shore, islip, bethpage, plainview, woodbury, syosset, garden city, east meadow, merrick, wantagh, mineola, great neck, jericho, manhasset, new york city, queens, brooklyn, manhattan, farmingdale, farmingville, brookville, hicksville, roslyn, levittown, westbury, massapequa, lindenhurst, glen cove, muttontown, and many other towns.

Diabetes is a leading killer in the United States and is reaching epidemic proportions.  This is largely due to our increasingly aging population, but other factors are significant such as obesity and sedentary life styles.  More and more of us are in a rush  to get our meals down.  This,  combined with the relative inexpense of fast food restaurants has led to their popularity, which are well known for their highly caloric meals, especially when supersized.  Large screen TV's, fast computers, and high tech computer games  are major contributors to our lack of exercise.

Because diabetes has become such a major health issue it behooves all of us to get routine screening blood tests by the time we have reached middle age.  The best tests to have your Doctor perform are fasting blood sugars as well as HgA1c  testing which tests the amount of blood sugar attached to your blood cells over several months.  Should levels approach the danger level, the filrst line of defense would be to consider losing weight, getting a good nights sleep, and a healty exercise schedule.  If treatment becomes necessary monitoring of blood sugar, blood pressure, and kidney function are paramount.

Diabetes damages tissues and organs by damaging blood vessels and the easiest place to see this is in the eye.  An ophtalmologist can detect this in a number of ways.  By direct visualization with an opthalmoscope one can see abnormal caliber of the blood vessels, microaneurysms which are small blow outs in the blood vessel walls of tiny blood vessels known as capillaries, hemorrhages within the retilna, and protein leakage known as exudates.  Other changes such as abnormal blood vessel formation, known as neovascularization can lead to devastation complications.  More sophisticated testing such as flourescein angiograms and ocular computerized tomography may also be required.

The good news is that many treatment options are available ranging from laser which has been in use for approximately 50 years to ocular injections which have recently become available.  The eye experts at North Shore Eye Care are well versed in the diagnosis and treatment of diabetic retinopathy.  Dr. Sidney Martin, the founder of the practice is still seeing patients after approximately 50 years.  He can also be seen slalom waterskiing every weedend in the summer on the Great South Bay.  He has been joined in practice by Lawrence Zweibel and his son Jeffrey Martin both who have been consistently recognized in Castle Connelly's book of Top Doctors in the Long Island Metro area.  More recently Dr. John Mauro has joined the practice.  Dr. Mauro is recognized as an ocular immunologist.  All four Doctors are board certified ophthalmologist.

 

 

 

Everyone knows someone that has had successful cataract surgery.  The eye doctors and eye surgeons at North Shore eye care in smithtown new york see many patients each day that require cataract surgery.  A cataract is a natural aging of the lens of the eye that causes the lens to cloud up and cause blurred vision and glare.  Many of our Long Island patients complain of glare with oncoming headlights while driving at night and glare with sunlight.  Things that used to be easy to see become difficult like reading a book or seeing traffic signs.  When these symptoms become significant enough to cause a compromise in quality of life, the cataract surgeons and eye surgeons in our Long Island New York eye care practice suggest cataract surgery. 

Cataract surgery is performed by our board certified cataract surgeons, Dr. Jeffrey Martin, Dr. Larry Zweibel and Dr. John Mauro.  We perform cataract surgery through microscopic incisions using eye drops for anesthesia which allows us to avoid needles around the eyes.  We do not use eye patches or stitches during cataract surgery and our average cataract surgery takes a few minutes and is relatively painless.  We have worked hard to develop a cataract treatment that is so easy for our patients to go through.  Dr. Martin and Dr. Zweibel have been voted Top Doctors: New York Metro Area by Castle Connolly ltd and North Shore Eye Care has been deemed a Crystalens National Cataract Surgery Center of Excellence by Bausch and Lomb.  It is important that your cataract surgeon have vast experience and use the best in techniques and technology.  In our Smithtown New York eye care practice, we use the best in intraocular implant technology including Crystalens, Restor, Rezoom, Tecnis Multifocal, and Acrysof Toric.

In long Island new york in suffolk and Nassau county, we see patients from smithtown, nesconset, saint james, kings park, centereach, selden, coram, middle island, ridge, riverhead, stony brook, setauket, port jefferson, miller place, mount sinai, rocky point, shoreham, wading river, patchogue, medford, brookhaven, yaphank, mastic, moriches, bellport, bayport, shirley, manorville, calverton, jamesport, cutchogue, mattituck, southold, eastport, westhampton, east hampton, hampton bays, quogue, sag harbor, southampton, amagansett, montauk, and many other towns.

Lasik has been a very popular elective corrective eye surgery over the past 15 years.  Lasik laser eye surgery has improved quite a bit over that time and today, the eye doctors and eye surgeons at North Shore Eye Care perform all bladeless and custom lasik.  Dr. Jeffrey Martin, Dr. Larry Zweibel and Dr. John Mauro are all board certified and are very experienced in all aspects of laser vision correction.  When you come in for your free lasik consultation in our Smithtown New York office in suffolk county, we will do all the appropriate testing including corneal topography, pachymetry, wavescan and thorough eye examination.  We will explain our use of Intralase, a blade-free laser that makes the safest and most precise flap as the first step of lasik.  We then do all Customvue lasik vision correction using Wavescan, wavemap, waveprint technology that automatically centers, automatically tracks, and uses iris registration.  Ilasik is the term used to describe the most advanced lasik laser eye surgery that our board certified lasik doctors and lasik surgeons use every time we do corrective eye surgery.

There are always questions about risk in lasik laser vision correction.  We discuss all of the most common problems associated with lasik, lasek, and epilasik even though the risk of any complication in lasik is less than 1 percent.  There is a possibility of infection, imperfect flap, under and overcorrection, as well as ectasia, but with today's more improved laser platforms and our ability to avoid borderline cases, we have made lasik one of the safest procedures performed today.  We also aggressively treat dry eye and ocular surface conditions so that our patients recover quickly and see the best that can be.  When people speak about risk compared to contact lenses, our doctors have seen more eye problems from contact lenses than lasik.  There is significant risk of infection and corneal problems with overwearing contact lenses and contact lens abuse.  Once our patients have lasik, the risk of contact lens complications goes away.

In long island in suffolk and nassau counties, we see patients from smithtown, nesconset, saint james, kings park, islip, islandia, hauppauge, bohemia, ronkonkoma, holtsville, holbrook, sayville, farmingdale, farmingville, commack, stony brook, setauket, port jefferson, and many other towns.

Cataract surgery has changed dramatically over the last 20 years. In 1962 when Dr. Sidney Martin, a board certified eye doctor and eye surgeon, cataract surgery was performed through a large incision. The cloudy lens of cataract was removed through the incision in one piece and then the incision was sutured. There were no intraocular implants or IOLs so patients had to get very thick glasses called aphakic glasses so that they could see better. These glasses were so thick that there was significant distortion of vision and patients were never really that happy with their functional vision. Because cataract surgery was difficult to get through, patients would wait until they were essentially blind before considering cataract surgery. Today, the board certified cataract doctors and cataract surgeons at North Shore Eye Care in Smithtown New York in Long Island in Suffolk County are able to complete cataract surgery through a 2 millimeter incision without the use of stitches, an eye patch or a needle around the eye. Deep sedation is not necessary today. Our patient get IV sedation and eye drops to numb the surface of the eye. Cataract surgery takes a few minutes and after the cloudy lens or cataract is removed, an intraocular implant or IOL is used to restore vision. We use several implants including premium implants that are designed to provide near and far vision without glasses or contact lenses. We sue accommodating implants like Crystalens and multifocal implants like Restor, Rezoom, and Tecnis Multifocal. We also use Acrysof Toric to reduce or eliminate astigmatism. This leads to the best possible vision and the best possible result. In Long Island New York in suffolk and Nassau County, we see patients from smithtown, nesconset, saint james, kings park, fort salonga, huntington, commack, northport, centerport, greenlawn, dix hills, melville, deer park, plainview, bethpage, woodbury, syosset, massapequa, lindenhurst, sayville, bay shore, babylon, farmingdale, manhasset, rockville center, garden city, east meadow, merrick, roslyn, jericho, brookville, new york city, manhattan, bronx, brooklyn, queens, and many other towns.

Laser vision correction has been popular in the smithtown long island area for over ten years.  A lot has changed over the years and the lasik laser eye surgery procedure has improved dramatically.  Our lasik doctors and lasik surgeons at North Shore Eye Care in Suffolk County of New York have always been at the forefront of the improvements and change in lasik laser eye surgery.

In the beginning, we used microkeratome blade machines to make the superficial flap that is the first step in lasik.  These blade machines were good, but complications could be serious and vision threatening and did happen.  Microkeratomes improved over the years and the risk of complications became less.  In the last few years, our eye doctors and eye surgeons switched completely to bladeless or blade-free lasik with Intralase.  Intralase is a laser that uses no blades to make the flap in lasik.  Intralase uses a laser to gentle form the flap in full view of the surgeon.  If the flap does not look perfect, we simply don't lift it and do it again a week later.  The incidence of complication with Intralase is less than 1 percent and serious complication is very rare.  Dr. Jeffrey Martin, Dr. Larry Zweibel and Dr. John Mauro have enjoyed the state of the art Intralase.

When it comes to the vision correction part of lasik, we do ilasik today which includes custom lasik with automatic centering, automatic tracking and iris registration.  In the beginning, our board certified eye surgeons would manually input the numbers of your prescription into the laser and that was placed on the eye.  In this way, everyone with the same prescription received the exact same correction.  As we know, everyone's visual system is unique like their fingerprint.  With the advent of Customvue, the Wavescan reads each patient's eyes and creates a custom wavemap or waveprint.   This custom pattern is unique for each patient and has improved the results of lasik dramatically.  At North Shore eye care, we do all bladeless custom lasik.

In Long Island in Suffolk and Nassau Counties, we see patients from smithtown, nesconset, saint james, kings park, centereach, selden, coram, middle island, ridge, riverhead, stony brook, setauket, port jefferson, miller place, mt sinai, rocky point, shoreham, wading river, patchogue, medford, brookhaven, yaphank, shirley, mastic, moriches, bellport, bayport, manorville, calverton, jamesport, cutchogue, mattituck, southold, eastport, westhampton, east hampton, sag harbor, hampton bays, quogue, and many other towns.

North Shore eye care in Smithtown New York in Long Island has been a cataract surgery leader in suffolk county for decades.  Dr. Sidney Martin, a board certified cataract doctor and cataract surgeon founded North Shore Eye Care in 1962.  Back then, cataract surgery was more invasive and more difficult for patients to experience.  Today, Dr. Jeffrey Martin, Dr. Larry Zweibel and Dr. John Mauro use the latest in cataract surgery technique and technology.  Our eye doctors and eye surgeons perform cataract surgery through a small incision using eye drops to numb the ocular surface.  Our patients receive IV sedation and remain in their own clothes.  There are no injections around the eyes, no eye patch and no stitches used in most cataract operations.  The cataract treatment takes about 10 minutes on average and our patients return home the very same day.  North Shore Eye Care helps close to one thousand patients each year with cataract to see better.

Many patients want to know what symptoms to expect as a cataract worsens.  We find that glare with oncoming headlights while driving at night is a very common symptom.  Patients complain that they can not drive at night like they used to drive when they were younger.  Glare with sunlight can be significant as well.  Patients often complain of blurred vision or loss of contrast.  Things do not look as clear as they remember.  At times, symptoms progress slowly to a point that patients do not recognize these differences.  Changes in eyeglass prescription can be a significant sign of cataract as well.

In Long Island New York in Suffolk and Nassau Counties, we see patients from smithtown, nesconset, saint james, king park, islandia, islip, hauppauge, lake grove, bohemia, ronkonkoma, holtsville, holbrook, commack, stony brook, setauket, port jefferson, sayville, bay shore, babylon, and many other towns.

North Shore Eye Care was founded in 1962 by board certified eye surgeon and eye doctor, Dr. Sidney Martin.  He founded the eye care practice to care for patients with glaucoma, macular degeneration, diabetes and diabetic retinopathy, dry eye, cataracts and later laser vision correction.  The eye care practice grew and eventually Dr. Larry Zweibel, Dr. Jeffrey Martin, and Dr. John Mauro joined to make the current group of board certified lasik surgeons and lasik doctors.  Our board certified eye surgeons do only the best in laser eye surgery including all blade free custom lasik in every case possible.  Our Smithtown New York doctors located in Long Island in Suffolk County do all of their pre and post-operative exams as well as the surgery.  We do not delegate important aspects of the surgery to others.  From the moment you walk through the doors of our smithtown new york office, you will be greeted warmly and treated as family.  Our lasik consultation is free and in it, we do all of the appropriate testing like corneal topography, automatic refraction, pachymetry, and examination of the ocular surface.  You will discuss your laser vision correction options with one of the board certified lasik doctors and then see our surgical coordinator.

Because we do all custom and all bladeless lasik, the price can be significant.  To help our patients, we offer zero percent financing for two years through Care Credit.  You can apply right in our office and know whether you are approved.  Our surgical coordinators, Christine and Rosemary, are very helpful in the process and help to get you comfortable in your payment options.  We help you with financing as well as flex spending if it is available at your place of business.  Flex spending allows you to use pre-tax dollars to pay for the lasik laser eye surgery.  We also offer several discounts through insurance companies if we participate with their laser vision correction panel.  When you are ready to have lasik, come see the lasik specialists at North Shore Eye Care

In Long island in suffolk and nassau counties, we see patients from smithtown, nesconset, saint james, kings park, commack, northport, huntington, cold spring harbor, deer park, centerport, greenlawn, dix hills, melville, bethpage, plainview, woodbury, syosset, massapequa, bay shore, babylon, massapequa, lindenhurst, sayville, garden city, east meadow, merrick, jericho, manhasset, great neck, queens, brooklyn, new york city, manhattan, wantagh, brookville, and many other towns.

The cataract surgeons and cataract doctors at North Shore Eye Care in Smithtown New York in Long Island are leaders in the field of cataract surgery.  A cataract is a clouding of the natural lens of the eye.  This occurs in most people as they age, but sometimes occurs earlier in life and can even be congenital.  When a cataract gets to the point that it is interfering with vision and making activities of daily living difficult, the board certified eye doctors and eye surgeons at our Long Island New York Metro Area office will suggest cataract surgery.  Cataract surgery takes a few minutes on average and is performed through a small incision using gentle ultrasound or phacoemulsification.  We do this using topical or eye drop anesthesia while using IV sedation for relaxation.  Our patients are able to stay in their own comfortable clothes and are able to return to the comfort of their home the very same day.  There is no need for needles around the eyes, stitches, or even an eye patch and our patients are not put under general anesthesia.  Dr. Jeffrey Martin, Dr. Larry Zweibel and Dr. John Mauro specialize in premium implants or intraocular lenses that are designed to reduce the need for glasses or contact lenses in most cases.  There are accommodating implants like crystalens and multifocal implants like the restor, rezoom, or tecnis multifocal.  We also specialize in acrysof toric implants that reduce or eliminate astigmatism.

In one out of three cataract patients, a Yag Capsulotomy may be necessary.  A cataract is like a grape.  We open the skin of the grape, remove the fruit and then place the new implant in the skin of the grape.  The skin of the grape is called the capsule of the lens and it then holds the implant for the rest of your life.  The capsule shrink wraps around the implant.  If the capsule clouds up, we use a gentle laser right in the office to open up the center of the capsule.  This takes a few minutes and is painless.

In Long island new york in suffolk and nassau counties, we see patients from smithtown, nesconset, saint james, kings park, centereach, selden, coram, middle island, ridge, riverhead, miller place, mount sinai, rocky point shoreham, wading river, stony brook, setauket, port jefferson, patchogue, medford, brookhaven, bellport, bayport, yaphank, moriches, mastic, shirley, manorville, calverton, jamesport, cutchogue, mattituck, southold, eastport, westhampton, east hampton, southampton, hampton bays, sag harbor, quogue, amagansett, montauk, and many other towns.

Lasik surgery has emerged as one of the most common elective eye surgical procedures done today.  At North Shore Eye Care in Smithtown New York in Long Island, our board certified lasik surgeons and lasik doctors have been very successful with lasik laser eye surgery mainly because of their vast experience, but also because they use only the very best technology and technique.  Our board certified eye doctors and eye surgeons do all blade free lasik and all custom lasik.  In lasik, a thin flap is made in the superficial layers of the cornea.  This flap is only made with Intralase in our Suffolk County Long Island practice.  Intralase is a laser that makes the safest and most accurate flap possible.  We then use Customvue which is a way that the Visx laser takes a wavemap or waveprint of your visual system that allows Dr. Jeff Martin, Dr. Larry Zweibel and Dr. John Mauro to correct your vision in a custom way.  This custom laser vision correction automatically centers, automatically tracks and uses iris registration to exactly place the laser eye surgery correction.

The recovery from lasik is quite simple in most cases.  Our patients are able to drive, work, and return to normal activities the very next day.  For those patients that need advanced surface ablation such as PRK, lasek, or epilasik, the recovery takes a few days.  Lasik patients are always pleased that the recovery is so easy.  After the laser eye surgery procedure, we have our patients keep their eyes closed for a few hours after lasik.  There is some mild burning and tearing which usually ends in about three hours.  We have our lasik patients use eye drops for about a week and that is about it.

In Long Island New York in Suffolk and Nassau Counties, we see patients from Smithtown, nesconset, saint james, kings park, hauppauge, lake grove, islip, islandia, holbrook, holtsville,  bohemia, ronkonkoma, sayville, commack, stony brook, setauket, port jefferson, and many other towns such as farmingville and farmingdale.

Cataract surgery involves replacing the natural lens which has lost it's clarity with a new clear artificial lens.  These lenses are biocompatible and are made of either acrylic or silicone material.  These lenses are not only well tolerated, but they are also non-degradeable.  Therefore these lenses never need to be replaced.  Furthermore, since they are contained within the eye patients are not aware of their presence, unlike a contact lens.  While cataract surgery has become extremely sophisticated requiring the use of microscopes and high tech instruments utilizing computer controlled ultrasound machines, the intraocular lenses used to replace the cataract have also continued to evolve.  Presently patients can pick from a variety of lenses such as accommodating lenses that allow focus to change from distance to near.  Multifocal lenses are also quite popular and allow patient simultaneous near and far vision as well.  All of these lenses are available in aslpheric designs that allow for improved optical clarity, especially at night when the pupil of the eye is well dilated.  For those patients with large amounts of astigmatism, toric lenses are also available.

The cataract experts are well versed in the use of all of these lenses.  Anyone contemplating cataract surgery should be sure to discuss not only how the surgery will be performed, but what lens is best suited for them.  Performing cataract surgery at North Shore Eye Care are Doctors Lawrence Zweibel and Jeffrey Martin, both of whom have been consistently recognized in Castle Connelly's book of top doctors.  Recently they have been joined by Doctor John Mauro.  Also still practicing is Doctor Sidney Martin who founded the practice.  All four Doctors are Board Certified.

At Northshore Eye care we serve people from all over Long Island, from Riverhead, the Hamptons, and Mastic to the westernmost areas of the Island including Rosalyn, Port Washington and Great Neck.

North Shore Eye Care was founded by Dr. Sidney Martin, a board certified eye doctor and eye surgeon, in 1962.  At the time, Dr. Sid Martin started his eye care practice in suffolk county of long island to take care of eye patients with glaucoma, macular degeneration, diabetic retinopathy, diabetes, cataracts, dry eye, as well as laser eye surgery as laser became available.  Over the years, Dr. Larry Zweibel, Dr. Jeffrey Martin, and Dr. John Mauro joined Dr. Sidney Martin, who still practices ophthalmology part time at 80 years of age. 

Cataract surgery is done in the most modern way at our eye care practice and takes about 10 minutes.  Our board certified cataract doctors and cataract surgeons use small incision cataract surgery and do not use stitches, eye patches or needles around the eyes.  Our patients stay in their own clothes and return home the very same day.  There is little to no discomfort and our patients see right away.  Our eye surgeons specialize in intraocular implants or IOLs that are designed to reduce or eliminate the need for glasses or contact lenses.  There are accommodating IOLs like crystalens that moves slightly in the eye with focus which increases depth of vision.  We also use multifocal implants like the restor, rezoom, and tecnis multifocal.  We also use Acrysof Toric implant to reduce or eliminate astigmatism in patients with astigmatism.  Dr. Martin and Dr. Zweibel have been voted "Top Doctors: New York Metro Area" by Castle Connolly ltd and North Shore Eye Care has been voted a National Crystalens Cataract Surgery Center of Excellence by Bausch and Lomb.

We start eye drops three days before cataract surgery because we feel that it gives our patients the best chance at a great result.  We use an antibiotic and an anti-inflammatory eye drop.  Following cataract surgery, we continue eye drops, also adding a steroid eye drop for several weeks following cataract surgery.  The eye drops are probably the hardest part about cataract surgery due to the fact that you have to use them for weeks. 

 

In long island new york in suffolk and nassau counties, we see patients from smithtown, nesconset, saint james, kings park, fort salonga, cold spring harbor, huntington, commack, northport, greenlawn, deer park, centerport, dix hills, melville, massapequa, lindenhurst, bay shore, babylon, plainview, woodbury, syosset, bethpage, merrick, rockville center, garden city, manhasset, jericho, great neck, east meadow, manhattan, new york city, queens, brooklyn, and many other towns.

Laser vision correction has been popular for over 10 years in the long island new york area and the board certified eye doctors and eye surgeons in Smithtown at North Shore Eye Care have led the way in laser eye surgery advancements.  Ilasik describes bladeless custom lasik, the very best and most advanced way to perform laser vision correction.  With ilasik, Dr. Jeffrey Martin, Dr. Larry Zweibel and Dr. John Mauro use Intralase, a blade free laser platform to complete the first step of lasik, the flap.  This is the most advanced way and safest way to make a flap.  We then use Visx Customvue to do the custom laser vision correction with automatic centering and automatic eye tracking.  We also iris registration which is a way to exactly place each laser vision correction according to the landmarks that make each iris unique.  By doing only ilasik, our lasik surgeons and lasik doctors give the very best results with the least adverse side effects.  Our patients know that they are getting the best in lasik laser vision surgery.  Dr. Martin and Dr. Zweibel have both been named Top Doctors in the New York Metro Area by Castle Connolly for their achievements in laser vision correcting and general eye care.

 

For those patients that might not qualify for lasik due to a thin cornea, irregular cornea or high prescription, we also offer custom advanced surface ablation that is also called PRK, epilasik, or lasek.  These surface laser vision correction procedures give the same great results.  The healing time is a little longer, but the final result is the same, great vision.

 

In Long island new york in suffolk and nassau counties, we see patients from smithtown, nesconset, saint james, kings park, centereach, selden, coram, middle island, ridge, riverhead, stony brook, setauket, port jefferson, shoreham, wading river, miller place, mount sinai, rocky point, patchogue, medford, brookhaven, yaphank, shirley, mastic, moriches, manorville, calverton, jamesport, cutchogue, mattituck, southold, eastport, westhampton, quogue, southampton, east hampton, sag harbor, hampton bays, montauk,  farmingville, bayport, bellport, and many other towns.

Cataract surgery is an elective outpatient procedure that helps over 1 million patients each year in the United States to see and function better.  At North Shore Eye Care in Smithtown New York in Long Island, our board certified cataract doctors and cataract surgeons specialize in the latest techniques in cataract surgery including small incision cataract surgery without using painful local needle injections.  Our board certified eye doctors and eye surgeons use eye drops for anesthesia and IV sedation for comfort.  Our patients stay in their own clothes and are able to return home the very same day.  Our cataract surgery technique does not require stitches or even an eye patch.  Since the eye is not covered, our patients are able to see right away and start the important postoperative eye drops.  Dr. Jeff Martin, Dr. John Mauro and Dr. Lawrence Zweibel specialize in premium intraocular lenses that reduce the need for glasses or contact lenses for all activities. An implant or IOL is always placed after the cataract or cloudy lens is removed using phacoemulsification or gentle computer controlled ultrasound.  The premium implants include the Crystalens, an accommodating lens as well as the multifocal lenses such as Tecnis Multifocal, Restor, and Rezoom.  We also use Acrysof Toric to reduce or eliminate astigmatism.

We do cataract surgery on many patients that also have glaucoma.  Glaucoma can occur as narrow angle or open angle.  With narrow angle glaucoma, cataract surgery can be more challenging due to the fact that there is less room to work with in the front of the eye.  Eyes with narrow angles tend to be smaller.  Our cataract surgeons are experienced with narrow angle cataract surgery and we take special steps to ensure the safest and best result.  Patients with open angle glaucoma usually are no different than normal eyes as far as cataract surgery is concerned.  At times, cataract surgery does cause a drop in the intraocular pressure to some degree without any further intervention.  In more severe glaucoma, we may elect to do a glaucoma procedure at the time of cataract surgery to further lower the intraocular pressure. 

 

In Long island new york in suffolk and  nassau county, we see patients from smithtown, nesconset, saint james, kings park, commack, northport, huntington, cold spring harbor, deer park, centerport, greenlawn, plainview, woodbury, syosset, bethpage, dix hills, melville, bay shore, babylon, massapequa, sayville, manhasset, garden city, east meadow, jericho, merrick, rockville center, new york city, queens, brooklyn, and many other towns.

Lasik is a great way for those people with glasses or contacts lenses to see well and be free of visual aids.  Laser vision correction has been popular for over ten years and the board certified eye doctors and eye surgeons at North Shore Eye Care in Smithtown New York in Long island have been a leader in lasik laser eye surgery since the beginning.  Our board certified lasik surgeons and lasik doctors see you as their patient before and after lasik laser eye surgery as well as taking you through the surgical day.  Our doctors, Dr. Jeffrey Martin, Dr. Larry Zweibel and Dr. John Mauro are all board certified and have great experience with the best in lasik including bladeless custom lasik or ilasik.  Ilasik is the most advanced way to perform lasik and includes Intralase, which is the blade free custom laser that makes the thinnest and most accurate flaps possible in lasik.  We use custom Visx Customvue lasik correction in every patient with automatic centering and automatic tracking.  We use iris registration in every case which lines up the vision correction procedure with the unique landmarks of your eyes.  This makes the results the absolute best that they can be. 

Dr. Jeff Martin and Dr. Larry Zweibel have been included in "Top Doctors: New York Metro Area" by Castle Connolly for several years which further highlights their committment to excellence. 

 

In Long Island New York in Suffolk and Nassau Counties, we see patients from Smithtown, Nesconset, saint james, kings park, islip, islandia, hauppauge, lake grove, bohemia, ronkonkoma, holbrook, holtsville, commack, northport, stony brook, setauket, centereach, head of the harbor, old field, poquott, belle terre, port jefferson,  and many other towns.

Cataracts have become an increasingly safer operation over the past decade. As vision fades due to cataracts, patients have to make the decision whether surgery is now in they’re best interests and one of the main concerns is safety. With new innovations as well as with surgeon experience this surgery ranks amongst the safest of procedures. In fact in the hands of the right surgeon complications rank at less than 1% in otherwise healthy eyes.

The surgeons at North Shore Eye Care, who have been recognized in Castle Connellyl’s Top Doctors for over 10 years have been doing cataract surgery for 50 years and were amongst the first surgeons in Suffolk County to implant intraocular lenses to replace the natural lens back in 1975. In those days most everyone had to wear thick cataract glasses in order to see, something many young people are unfamiliar with. Presently we have a whole host of different lenses that can be implanted in patients depending on their specific needs. These lenses offer ultraviolet light filtration which are present in all lenses for protection of the retina. Other optional features include blue light filtration, aspheric lenses for enhanced night vision and better contrast sensitiviy, and toric lenses, which have become very popular for the correction of astigmatism. By reducing astimatism, a focusing problem which can be significant in many patients, the need for spectacles can be significantly reduced. To further reduce dependence on spectacles one can choose between multifocal and accommadative intraocular lenses that enhance near as well as offering excellent distance vision.

Dr. John Mauro has recently joined Drs. Sidney Martin, Lawrence Zweibel, and Jeffrey Martin at North Shore Eye Care. All physicians in the practice are board certified by the American Board of Ophthalmology.

At Northshore Eye Care we serve patients from Riverhead and the Hamptons to mid and western suffolk, even extending well into Nassau County.

Refractive surgery is a term used to describe the array of options available in laser vision correction. Refractive surgery simply means surgery that will correct the need for glasses or contact lenses. There are several types of refractive surgery and even more historically. Refractive surgery was first performed with sharp blades that cut deep into the cornea to change its shape. This was called RK or ALK. Some eye doctors and eye surgeons still use a type of incisional refractive surgery along with cataract surgery called astigmatic keratotomy. At North Shore eye Care in Smithtown New york in Long island, we no longer use incisional refractive surgery and now use only all laser blade free laser vision correction. Our board certified lasik surgeons and lasik doctors do ilasik or bladeless custom lasik most commonly. With ilasik, we use intralase, a blade free laser to make a thin flap in the superficial layers of the cornea. Intralase replaced the blade microkeratome in our practice. It is simply safer and more accurate. We then use customvue by visx to make a waveprint or wavemap of your cornea which automatically centers and automatically tracks. We use iris registration on every patient to further ensure precision in our results. Some patients that can not have lasik can still have advanced surface ablation such as lasek, epilasik or prk. These surface ablations have the same results as lasik, but the healing time and time it takes to get to that final vision is longer. Patients with thin corneas, irregular corneas, or high prescriptions are sometimes better served by surface laser vision correction. Dr. Jeffrey Martin, Dr. larry Zweibel and dr. John Mauro are the board certified lasik surgeons at North Shore Eye Care in Suffolk County of Long Island and are committed to the very best refractive surgery options for their patients.

In Long Island New York in suffolk and nassau counties, we see patients from smithtown, nesconset, saint james, kings park, centereach, selden, coram, middle island, ridge, riverhead, mount sinai, miller place, rocky point, stony brook, setauket, port jefferson, shoreham, wading river, patchogue, medford, bellport, bayport, yaphank, shirley, mastic, moriches, farmingville, manorville, calverton, jamesport, cutchogue, mattituck, southold, montauk, amagansett, westhampton, southampton, east hampton, hampton bays, sag harbor, quogue, eastport, and many other towns.

Cataract surgery helps many people each year to see better, reduce unwanted visual side effects and reduce dependence on glasses and contact lenses. The eye surgeons and eye doctors at North Shore Eye Care in Smithtown New York in Long island specialize in cataract surgery. Dr. Jeffrey Martin, Dr. Larry Zweibel and Dr. John Mauro, all board certified cataract doctors and cataract surgeons, do many successful cataract operations each year and use the very best techniques available. Cataract surgery at North Shore Eye Care in Smithtown New York in Long island is done through a small incision using computer controlled ultrasound called phacoemulsification and is done without stitches, an eye patch or needles in most cases. When the cataract or cloudy lens of the eye is removed, it is replaced by an intraocular lens or IOL. The standard implants reduce the need for distance glasses except in those patients with astigmastism. Patients with astigmatism have a more oval shaped cornea and need an astigmatism correcting toric implant to reduce the need for glasses. Many patients that do not mind wearing glasses are very happy with a standard implant. For those patients that desire to reduce or eliminate the need for glasses for near and far, they can choose an accommodating lens like the crystalens. Crystalens works by moving slightly in the eye which gives better range of vision. We also use multifocal implants like the restor, rezoom, and tecnis multifocal that have rings or near and far for simultaneous near and far vision. Depending on your visual needs, our board certified cataract surgeons tailor your implant to you. North Shore eye Care has been named a crystalens National Center of excellence by bausch and lomb and Dr. Martin and Dr. Zweibel have been named Top doctors in the new york metro area by Castle Connolly.

In long island new york in suffolk and nassau counties, we see patients from smithtown, nesconset, saint james, kings park, islandia, hauppauge, lake grove, islip, bohemia, ronkonkoma, holbrook, holtsville, sayville, stony brook, setauket, port jefferson, commack, and many other towns.

Laser vision correction has been around for over 10 years and it has never been more precise or safer than it is today. The board certified eye surgeons and eye doctors at North Shore eye care in Smithtown New York in Long Island pride themselves in only giving their patients the best in bladeless custom lasik laser eye surgery. From the moment you meet the board certified lasik doctors and lasik surgeons at North Shore eye Care, you know that you have chosen a leader in lasik laser eye surgery. Dr. Jeffrey Martin, dr. Larry Zweibel and dr. John Mauro are committed to the very best results whether it be ilasik, lasek, epilasik or prk. The eye doctors personally examine your eye and choose the best laser vision correction procedure for you. Lasik is ok for about 70 % of patients, but those patients with thin corneas, irregular corneas or high prescriptions are sometimes better served with a type of advanced surface ablation. Occassionally a patient should not have laser vision correction at all, but in current times, we use all thin blade free Intralase flaps. By making flaps in lasik so precise and thin, we are often able to treat patients with lasik that we could not treat just a few years ago. We also use all Visx Customvue with waveprint wavemapping. With this lasik technique, the ablation is completely customized to your eye like your fingerprint. It automatically centers and tracks for the very best results and uses iris registration for exact placement.

For their committment to excellence, Dr. Martin and Dr. Zweibel have been chosen as Top Doctors in the New York Metro Area by Castle Connolly. Only the top ten percent of eye doctors and eye surgeons are awarded this honor.

In Long Island New York in Suffolk and nassau Counties, we see patients from smithtown, nesconset, saint james, kings park, cold spring harbor, fort salonga, commack, northport, greenlawn, centerport, huntington, dix hills, melville, deer park, massapequa, lindenhurst, sayville, bay shore, babylon, plainview, bethpage, syosset, woodbury, east meadow, rockville, center, farmingdale, garden city, mineola, manhasset, merrick, lynbrook, and many other towns.

North Shore Eye Care has specialized in cataract surgery since 1960 when Dr. Sidney Martin founded his eye care practice in Smithtown New York in Long Island. A lot has changed since the early years and now Dr. Jeffrey Martin, board certified eye doctor and eye surgeon along with Dr. Larry Zweibel and Dr. John Mauro, both board certified cataract doctors and cataract surgeons perform the very best and safest in cataract removal. Our eye doctors do many cataract operations each year and use small incisions as well as no stitch, no needle, no patch cataract surgery. Our patients stay in their own clothes are able to return home the very same day without pain and seeing right away. We like the no patch technique because patients are able to begin the important postoperative eye drops the very same day.

Many patients think that cataract surgery only involves the removal of a film or covering of the eye. The actual cataract operation involves the removal of the cloudy lens of the eye or cataract using computer controlled fine ultrasound called phacoemulsification. We then place a new implant or intraocular lens to restore vision and help our patients see without glasses or contact lenses. We specialize in premium implants such as the accommodating lens, the crystalens, and the multifocal lenses like the restor, rezoom, and tecnis multifocal. These lenses act by different mechanisms but have the same goal of allowing distance and near vision without having to use glasses or contact lenses. We even provide lasik laser eye surgery to fine tune our results if necessary to get the very best result possible. For those patients that want it, we also offer zero percent financing for two years to help pay for these implants.

In Long island new york in suffolk and nassau counties, we see patients from smithtown, nesconset, saint james, kings park, centereach, selden, coram, middle island, ridge, riverhead, stony brook, setauket, port jefferson, miller place, mt sinai, rocky point, shoreham, wading river, yaphank, shirley, mastic, moriches, calverton, manorville, brookhaven, patchogue, medford, bellport, bayport, farmingville, eastport, westhampton, southampton, east hampton, sag harbor, quogue, hampton bays, jamesport, cutchogue, mattituck, southold, and many other towns.

North Shore eye Care was founded by Dr. Sidney Martin, a board certified eye doctor and eye surgeon, in 1962. At the time, Dr. Martin and his wife formed the eye care practice in smithtown new york in long island to take care of patients with glaucoma, macular degeneration, cataracts, dry eye, diabetic retinopathy, and other general eye diseases. Dr. Martin was part of the first wave of laser eye surgery that came to the New York Metro Area. Laser vision correction has been a specialty at North Shore eye Care for over ten years and board certified lasik doctors and lasik surgeons, Dr. Jeffrey Martin, Dr. Larry Zweibel and Dr. John Mauro, have been successful using the very best in lasik surgery like ilasik or bladeless custom lasik. We pride ourselves in doing only the best in lasik using Intralase to make every lasik flap because it is safest and most precise. We use customvue custom lasik with iris registration because it makes a wavemap or waveprint that is lasered using automatic centering and tracking.

With bladeless custom lasik, our board certified eye doctors and eye surgeons can treat myopia or nearsightedness, hyperopia or farsightedness, and astigmatism. Astigmatism means that a cornea is more oblong or football shaped instead of spherical or basketball shaped. We have been correcting astigmatism for about 10 years and today, the correction of astigmatism is customized for each patient. We are able to do custom intralasik and astigmatism is as easy to correct as hyperopia and myopia. For their committment to excellence, Dr. Jeff Martin and Dr. Larry Zweibel have been included in “Top Doctors: New York Metro Area” by Castle Connolly ltd for the past few years.

In Long Island New York in Suffolk and Nassau County, we see patients from smithtown, nesconset, saint james, kings park, islip, islandia, hauppauge, lake grove, holtsville, holbrook, ronkonkoma, bohemia, sayville, bay shore, babylon, commack, stony brook, setauket, port jefferson.

North Shore Eye Care has been a leader in cataract surgery for over 50 years. Dr. Sidney Martin, a board certified cataract doctor and cataract surgeon, founded the Smithtown New York eye care practice in 1960. The goal of Dr. Martin initially was to take care of eye patients with a wide variety of pathology including glaucoma, macular degeneration, cataracts, diabetes and diabetic retinopathy, dry eye, and many other eye problems. His son, Dr. Jeffrey Martin along with Dr. Larry Zweibel and Dr. John Mauro make up the current board certified eye doctors and eye surgeons at North Shore Eye Care. The practice strives for the excellence in eye care that Dr. Martin had as his mission in the old days. Dr. Jeff Martin and Dr. Larry Zweibel have been deemed “Top Doctors: New York Metro Area” by castle Connolly ltd and North Shore Eye Care has been named a National Crystalens Cataract surgery Center of Excellence by Bausch and Lomb. These awards further highlight our eye care practice as committed to the best in cataract care and cataract surgery.

The cost of cataract surgery is covered by health insurance and medicare in almost all cases. For those without insurance, we offer zero percent financing for two years and we try to keep our cost down for those patients that do not have the finances to pay for cataract surgery. We perform cataract surgery with no stitches, no eye patch, and no needles around the eyes. Our patients stay in their own clothes and return to their home within a couple of hours.

For those patients that wish to have vision free of glasses and contact lenses, we offer premium implants such as crystalens, restor, rezoom, tecnis multifocal, and acrysof toric. These lenses are designed to help patients see without glasses. There is an added cost for these implants, but we do help you with zero percent financing and payment plans. Many of our happiest patients are those with accommodating or multifocal implants.

In Long Island New York in Suffolk and Nassau Counties, we see patients from cold spring harbor, huntington, northport, commack, greenlawn, deer park, centerport, dix hills, melville, smithtown, nesconset, saint james, kings park, fort salonga, farmingdale, lindenhurst, massapequa, bay shore, babylon, plainview, bethpage, woodbury, syosset, rockville center, garden city, east meadow, manhasset, merrick, woodmere, great neck, roslyn, and many other towns.

Laser vision correction is one of the most popular elective procedures performed in the United States. At North Shore Eye Care in Smithtown New York in Long Island, our board certified lasik doctors and lasik surgeons perform many lasik and prk or advanced surface ablation procedures each year. We use only the best technology including blade free Intralase, which is the safest and most precise way to make a flap in lasik. What is lasik? Lasik describes the method of laser vision correction when the eye doctor or eye surgeon makes a thin flap in the superficial layers of the cornea. We do that with Intralase only and no blade microkeratomes. The custom Visx customvue laser vision correction is placed under this flap and it automatically centers and automatically tracks as well as uses iris registration for the very best centration of the ablation. Recovery is quick. Our lasik patients are able to drive to see us the next day and there is very little discomfort.

For those patients with thin corneas, irregular corneas or high prescriptions, lasik is sometimes not safe enough and for a lot of those patients, surface ablation which is also called lasek, epilasik or prk is perfectly reasonable. The reason that surface ablation is safer in these cases is that with prk, we do not go as deeply into the cornea because there is no flap. With surface ablation, the laser eye surgery is placed right on the surface of the cornea. Healing takes a bit longer and blurred vision as well as discomfort can last a few more days. With that, about 30 % of the laser vision correction at North Shore Eye care in Smithtown new York is of the surface variant. For their committment to excellence in laser vision correction, Dr. Jeffrey Martin and Dr. Larry Zweibel have been named as Top Doctors in the New York Metro Area by Castle Connolly ltd for the last several years. Dr. John Mauro also performs all forms of laser vision correction.

In Suffolk and Nassau Counties of Long island new york, we see patients from smithtown, nesconset, saint james, kings park, centereach, selden, coram, middle island, riverhead, ridge, stony brook, setauket, port jefferson, shoreham, wading river, patchogue, medford, bellport, bayport, farmingdale, farmingville, miller place, mount sinai, rocky point, eastport, westhampton, quogue, east hampton, southampton, hampton bays, sag harbor, jamesport, cutchogue, mattituck, southold, yaphank, shirley, moriches, mastic, manorville, calverton, brookhaven, and many other towns.

Cataract surgery has developed into one of the most successful ambulatory surgery procedures that is currently performed. At North Shore Eye Care in Smithtown new york in Long island, our board certified eye doctors and eye surgeons perform close to one thousand cataract surgery procedures each year. Our cataract doctors and cataract surgeons are cutting edge with technology and technique using small incisions without the need for stitches, an eye patch or needles around the eyes. Cataract surgery takes a few minutes, is painless in most cases and our patients return home to the comfort of their home the very same day. We use IV sedation to relax our patients and then numbing eye drops for comfort. Our board certified cataract surgeons specialize in premium implants designed to reduce the need for glasses and contact lenses. We use accommodating implants like the crystalens and have been deemed a national crystalens center of excellence by Bausch and Lomb. We also use multifocal lenses like the restor, rezoom, and tecnis multifocal. These lenses act as bifocals or make a patient able to see far and near without glasses in most cases. We also use the Alcon toric implant that reduces or eliminates astigmatism in most cases.

Recovery from cataract surgery is straightforward in almost all cases. Following surgery, our patients relax and have a bite to eat prior to leaving the surgical center. We tell our patients to relax the day of surgery and start their eye drops right away to help ward off any chance of infection or inflammation. The nice thing about not using an eye patch is that you can start the important postoperative eye drops that same day. For the week after cataract surgery, we have you limit strenous activity, but by the following week, our patients are back to full activity.

In Long Island New York in Suffolk and Nassau County, we see patients from smithtown, nesconset, saint james, kings park, islandia, islip, hauppauge, lake grove, holbrook, holtsville, bohemia, ronkonkoma, bay shore, babylon, commack, stony brook, setauket, port jefferson, centereach, and many other towns.

Choosing a lasik doctor or lasik surgeon to perform your laser vision correction is a big decision. It is hard for someone without medical experience to know who is the right eye doctor or eye surgeon. North Shore Eye Care in Smithtown New York in long island makes sure that the three board certified lasik doctors and lasik surgeons are three doctors that you would choose to do your ilasik or bladeless custom lasik. When it comes to a lasik surgeon, he or she must be experienced. The doctors at North Shore eye Care have been performing lasik for many years, since the beginning of laser vision correction on long island. We use only the best technique, which is very important. Dr. Jeff Martin, Dr. Larry Zweibel and Dr. John Mauro do all bladefree or bladleless lasik using Intralase to make the thinnest, most precise and safest flap possible. We then use all custom Visx Customvue to do the lasik laser eye surgery. With Customvue, the laser constructs a custom fingerprint of your vision called a waveprint or wavemap. This automatically centers, automatically tracks and uses iris registration so that centration and positioning of the laser vision correction ablation is as perfect as possible. Many lasik doctors are still using blade microkeratomes and non-custom procedures, but never at North Shore Eye Care. When it comes to high quality lasik, the best procedure possible is absolutely necessary.

When you walk through the doors of North Shore Eye Care, you are greeted by our professional and warm staff. The technicians do a variety of tests including pachymetry, corneal topography, refraction, pupilometry, and then the eye doctor and eye surgeon meets with you to discuss your options. When you leave our office from your free lasik consultation, you will know if you are a good candidate for lasik, lasek, epilasik, or prk and why.

In Long Island new york in suffolk and nassau counties, we see patients from cold spring harbor, huntington, commack, northport, centerport, greenlawn, dix hills, melville, smithtown, nesconset, saint james, kings park, fort salonga, deer park, bethpage, plainview, woodbury, syosset, massapequa, bay shore, babylon, farmingdale, farmingville, lindenhurst, brentwood, sayville, and many other towns.

Glaucoma is an eye problem that can cause vision loss and is very prevalent in long island new york as much as the rest of the world. Glaucoma describes an increase in pressure in the eye that can cause damage to the optic nerve of the eye which in turn causes peripheral vision loss. There are many types of glaucoma including narrow and open angle types. Most forms of glaucoma are not painful and this is why it is so important to get regular eye exams because glaucoma is picked up in normal eye exams. When is comes to cataract surgery, our board certified eye surgeons and eye doctors are very careful to give every patient the best cataract surgery possible. In some types of glaucoma, our cataract doctors and cataract surgeons will alter their technique to bring a quicker and less traumatic result. In narrow angle types of glaucoma, our board certified cataract surgeons often use techniques for pupil enlargement if necessary and we also have techniques to make the front of the eye hold volume or size because in some of these cases, the front of the eye or anterior chamber can be quite narrow. If there was previous glaucoma surgery done, there can often be laxity of the structures in the eye and instability of the anterior chamber or front of the eye. In most cases, cataract surgery in glaucoma patients is quite routine. We are also careful to monitor the intraocular pressure following cataract surgery to prevent increases in intraocular pressure following cataract surgery.

Most patients with glaucoma are still able to get premium implants or IOLs following cataract surgery so that there is less of a dependence on glasses or contact lenses. We use accommodating lenses such as crystalens as well as multifocal lenses like the rezoom, restor, and tecnis multifocal. There intraocular lens implants allow patients to see far and near. North Shore eye Care has been named a National Crystalens Cataract surgery Center of Excellence by Bausch and Lomb and Dr. Jeff Martin and Dr. Larry Zweibel have been named Top Doctors New York Metro Area by castle Connolly for the last several years.

In Long Island's Suffolk and Nassau County, we see patients from smithtown, nesconset, saint james, Kings park, centereach, selden, coram, middle island, riverhead, ridge, stony brook, setauket, port jefferson, shoreham, wading river, miller place, mount sinai, rocky point, patchogue, medford, bellport, bayport, brookhaven, yaphank, shirley, mastic, moriches, calverton, manorville, cutchogue, jamesport, mattituck, southold, eastport, quogue, westhampton, southampton, east hampton, hampton bays, sag harbor, montauk, farmingdale, farmingville, amagansett, and many other towns.

Many of our patients at North Shore Eye Care in Smithtown New York in Long Island want to know if laser vision correction or lasik is able to correct astigmatism. Many are under the belief that astigmatism is not corrected by ilasik and laser eye surgery. When laser vision correction was first fda approved, it was approved for only nearsightedness or myopia. About one year later, astigmatism correction became possible and later farsightedness or hyperopia was approved. The only type of correction that the board certified eye doctors and eye surgeons in Smithtown New York are not truly able to fix is presbyopia. Presbyopia is when your distance needs a different power of glasses than your near vision and this represents an aging change. Some patients use monovision or using one eye for distance and one eye for near to get around presbyopia, but there is not a true lasik correction for far and near through each eye. Astigmatism is described as the eye not being perfectly spherical like a basketball, but more oblong like a football. Astigmatism causes blurred vision at near and at far, but is fully correctable by laser eye surgery such as lasik, lasek, prk, or advanced surface ablation. Astigmatism often exists with myopia or hyperopia so when our board certified lasik doctors and lasik surgeons correct your entire prescription, they are correcting myopia, hyperopia and astigmatism.

Dr. Jeffrey Martin, Dr. Larry Zweibel and Dr. John Mauro all perform the very best in lasik including bladeless custom lasik or ilasik. All of our flaps are made blade free with Intralase, the safest and most precise way to make a flap. We then use all custom laser vision correction using Visx Customvue which lasers your custom waveprint or wavemap which is like to your visual fingerprint.

In long island new york in suffolk and nassau counties, we see patients from smithtown, nesconset, saint james, kings park, islip, islandia, hauppauge, lake grove, bohemia, ronkonkoma, holtsville, holbrook, sayville, commack, stony brook, setauket, port jefferson, centereach, bay shore, babylon, farmingdale, farmingville, and many other towns.

Improving vision so that glasses are longer necessary is becoming increasingly more widespread and accepted, so much so that the three branches of the military have wholeheartedly embraced laser vision correction. This is because of the high levels of satisfaction along with the very low risk associated with the procedure. Laser vision correction is often performed in military members that require excellent vision to successfully perform their duties. This can include landing high speed jets aboard aircraft carriers both day and night, scuba diving, parachuting, and using state of the art equipment. Furthermore, this procedure has allowed for deployment in areas such as Iraq and Afganistan where use of contact lenses is prohibited since casualties have been shown to be reduced. To date more than 325,000 laser vision procedures have been performed in the United States military including the army, navy, and the air force and it is approved for all aspects of the military including aviation, astronauts, and special operation forces. Safety and acceptance are extremely high. In a questionnaire given to naval aviators at 1 month 95% said lasik helped their performance while none stated it adversely affected them. All of them stated that they would recommend the procedure to others.
Lasik surgery has been successfully performed at North Shore Eye Care for greater than 10 years utilizing the very latest technology which includes the use of the Intralase, cutomvue, iris registration, and laser tracking.
At North Shore Eye Care we treat patients from all over Suffolk and Nassau counties including the Hamptons, Riverhead, Wading River, Mastic, Coram, Port Jefferson, Smithtown, Stony Brook, Holbrook, Brentwood, Huntington, Freeport, Port Washingston, Roslyn, Great Neck and elsewhere.

Cataract surgery is the most performed elective eye surgery in the United States and continues to be one of the most successful and life changing surgery for many people with failing vision. A cataract is a clouding of the lens of the eye. This happens naturally with age and when a cataract interferes with vision to a significant degree, cataract surgery is considered. The board certified eye doctors and eye surgeons at North Shore Eye Care in Smithtown New York in Long island never have to tell a patient when cataract surgery is indicated because patients are able to tell for themselves. When our patients tell us that they are ready and need to see better, our board certifed cataract doctors and cataract surgeons, Dr. Sidney Martin, Dr. Jeffrey Martin, Dr. Larry Zweibel and Dr. John Mauro, are ready to assist them in the improvement of their vision. A cataract is removed using gentle ultrasound called phacoemulsification through a tiny incision. We rarely use stitches, an eye patch, or needles around the eyes. We are able to complete the surgery in a few minutes and our patients return to the comfort of their home the very same day. Patients are able to see right away.

Like any surgery, cataract surgery can have side effects or negative events. These risks are small, but in consultation about cataract surgery, our eye doctors will tell you about all the potential risks and benefits. Infections can happen in any surgery and can result in loss of vision or even in loss of the eye in cataract surgery, but infections are very rare. As a matter of fact, the doctors at North Shore Eye Care have only seen two cases of infection in the past fifteen years and over ten thousand cataracts.

In Long island new york in suffolk and nassau counties, we see patients from smithtown, nesconset, saint james, kings park, fort salonga, cold spring harbor, huntington, commack, northport, deer park, dix hills, melville, centerport, bethpage, woodbury, syosset, manhasset, rockville center, garden city, mineola, plainview, lindenhurst, bay shore, babylon, massapequa, sayville, farmingdale, farmingville, and many other towns.

When is comes to lasik, the eye doctors and eye surgeons at North Shore Eye Care in smithtown New York in Long Island do the very best in laser vision correction. Our board certified eye doctors feel that when it comes to vision correction laser eye surgery, there is no place for bargain or discount lasik procedures and the only lasik that should be performed is bladeless custom lasik when possible. Dr. Sidney Martin, Dr. Jeffrey Martin, Dr. Larry Zweibel and Dr. John Mauro share the same philosophy when it comes to eye care and eye surgery and that is what makes North Shore Eye Care so unique and successful. When is comes to lasik, we only use Intralase, which is the blade free all laser way to perform lasik. We no longer use metal microkeratomes or blade machines because they are simply not as safe or precise. When it comes to the vision correction part of lasik, we do all Visx Customvue which means that every lasik correction is customized to each individual patient. With Wavescan, we make a waveprint or fingerprint of your unique vision that then automatically centers, automatically tracks and also uses iris registration. Iris registration is a way that the laser uses the unique landmarks of your unique eye to exactly center and line up the laser with your eye. Ilasik or bladeless custom lasik translates to the best results possible in every case.

The committment to excellence at North Shore Eye Care is further displayed by Dr. Jeff Martin and Dr. Larry Zweibel being recognized as "Top Doctors in the New York Metro Area" by Castle Connolly ltd. Castle Connolly is a medical research company that finds the top ten percent of doctors by region and by specialty.

In Long Island New York in Suffolk and Nassau Counties, we see patients from smithown, nesconset, saint james, kings park, centereach, selden, coram, middle island, riverhead, ridge, calverton, manorville, shirley, stony brook, setauket, port jefferson, shoreham, wading river, miller place, mount sinai, rocky point, patchogue, medford, bellport, bayport, mastic, moriches, brookhaven, eastport, westhampton, east hampton, sag harbor, quogue, hampton bays, southampton, cutchogue, mattituck, southold, jamesport, and many other towns.

Cataract removal is one of the most common outpatient procedures done in our country and around the world every year. A cataract is a clouding of the natural lens of the eye that happens to every person as they go through their life. When the cataract becomes dense enough that it negatively affects vision to a significant degree, cataract surgery is advisable. Some patients need cataract surgery at a younger age and we have some 90 year old patients at North Shore Eye Care in Smithtown New YOrk in Long island that do not need cataract surgery yet. Dr. Jeffrey Martin, board certified cataract surgery and cataract doctor tells his patients that he never needs to tell them when cataract surgery is necessary because patients are able to see the difference and usually request cataract surgery when symptoms such as night glare, glare with sunlight and general blurred vision make their activities of daily living difficult. Cataract surgery is done through a small incision under local anesthesia. Dr. Jeff martin, Dr. Larry Zweibel and Dr. John Mauro all do cataract surgery with eye drop anesthesia with IV sedation for relaxation. There are usually no stitches, eye patches or needles around the eyes. The cataract surgery is quick and painless in most cases and our board certified eye doctors and eye surgeons do many cataract operations each year. Dr. Martin and Dr. Zweibel have been included as top doctors in the new york metro area by Castle Connolly for the last several years and North Shore eye Care has been named a Crystalens National Center of Excellence by Bausch and Lomb. Our eye doctors specialize in premium implants designed to reduce or eliminate the need for glasses or contact lenses in all conditions following cataract surgery. These lenses include Crystalens, Restor, Rezoom, Tecnis Multifocal, and Acrysof Toric lenses.

In Long island new York in Suffolk and Nassau County, we see patients from smithtown, nesconset, saint james, kings park, islip, islandia, hauppauge, lake grove, bohemia, ronkonkoma, sayville, holtsville, holbrook, commack, northport, stony brook, setauket, port jefferson, centereach, nissequogue, head of the harbor, old field, belle terre, poquott, and many other towns.

Lasik has been a very popular procedure over the last decade with huge improvements in technology and experience by dedicated lasik laser vision correction surgeons. The board certified lasik surgeons at North Shore Eye Care in Smithtown New york in Long island have been committed to lasik laser eye surgery since it first began in the mid 1990s. Laser vision correction became much better with the advent of custom lasik customvue and iris registration. The eye doctors and eye surgeons at North Shore Eye Care do all bladeless or blade free lasik with Intralase, which is a laser that makes the thinnest and most precise flaps possible. The significance of Intralase is that no blade is used during the lasik procedure at any time. The laser vision correction is done using a custom wavemap or waveprint of each individual's patient eye using wavescan by visx. This custom fingerprint of your vision is lasered into the cornea using automatic centering and tracking as well as iris registration for precise placement of the laser vision correction. Bladeless custom lasik or ilasik translates to the safest and absolute best results that can be achieved with lasik today. Dr. Sidney Martin, Dr. Jeffrey Martin, Dr. Larry Zweibel and Dr. John Mauro are all committed to the best in eye care and this shows through with Dr. Martin and Dr. Zweibel being included in "Top Doctors: New York Metro Area" by Castle Connolly ltd for the last several years.

When it comes to cost, the very best in lasik is not without expense. At North Shore Eye Care in Long Island New York, we charge a fair price, but this is not bargain lasik. When it comes to laser eye surgery, bargain pricing is not a reason to decide to have lasik at a particular place. At North Shore Eye Care, you will get the best lasik available by very experienced lasik surgeons. We do have no interest financing for two years which does help our patients to finance the lasik laser eye surgery.

In Suffolk and Nassau Counties of Long island new york, we see patients from cold spring harbor, huntington, commack, northport, greenlawn, centerport, dix hills, melville, bay shore, babylon, lindenhurst, sayville, bethpage, woodbury, syosset, plainview, smithtown, nesconset, saint james, kings park, manhasset, rockville, center, new york city, brooklyn, queens, and many other towns.

The board certified cataract doctors and cataract surgeons at North Shore Eye Care in smithtown new york in long island perform many hundred cataract surgery procedures each year. Our eye doctors and eye surgeons specialize in cataract surgery and are leaders in cataract treatment in Long Island New York. After cataract surgery, some patients can develop secondary cataract or posterior capsule opacification. This capsule opacification is not truly a cataract because a cataract is an actual clouding of the natural lens of the eye and once a cataract is removed, it can never grow back. A cataract is like a grape and in cataract surgery, we peel a circle in the skin of the grape and then remove the fruit using gentle ultrasound called phacoemulsification. You are then left with the skin of the grape and a circular opening in the front. This is where our board certified eye doctors place an intraocular lens or IOL that is used to restore vision. The lens capsule or skin of the grape can become cloudy over time and this is secondary cataract or posterior capsule opacity. When PCO develops to a degree that is visually significant, we use a gentle laser called Yag Capsulotomy in the office to remove the central part of the cloudy capsule restoring vision quickly and without pain. The yag laser is done in the office and requires no medical clearance or sedation. Our patients stay in their own clothes and the yag laser takes less than a minute. By the next day, patients are back to seeing as well as when they first had cataract surgery done. This is most apparent in those patients that chose to have a premium IOL like crystalens, restor, rezoom, or tecnis multifocal. These accommodating and multifocal implants are especially sensitive to posterior capsule opacity because they are very exacting special implants.

In long island new york in suffolk and nassau counties, we see patients from smithtown, nesconset, saint james, kings park, centereach, selden, coram, middle island, ridge, riverhead, rocky point, miller place, mount sinai, stony brook, setauket, port jefferson, shoreham, wading river, patchogue, medford, brookhaven, yaphank, shirley, mastic, moriches, bayport, bellport, farmingdale, farmingville, calverton, manorville, jamesport, cutchogue, mattituck, southold, eastport, westhampton, quogue, southampton, hampton bays, sag harbor, east hampton, amagansett, montauk, and many other towns.

Cataracts are a clouding of the natural lens within the eye. Usually invisible to the naked eye when observing an individual who has one, the cataractous lens sits behind the pupil of the eye. It consists of a covering called the capsule. Within the capsule is proteinacous material consisting of a lens nucleus and outer cortical material. In younger, healthy eyes the lens is soft and flexible enabling it to change its shape. As a result one can easily change focus from distance to near. However due to ageing changes within the lens focusing ability is gradually lost so that by the time one enters his mid forties reading glasses or bifocals are usually required. Still later in life when the lens begins to cloud, like the clear white of an egg becoming opaque when cooked, we enter the developing stages of cataract formation. Not all cataracts require removal however. Initially the symptoms may be subtle consisting of increased glare or halos. Increased difficulty with reading, driving, especially at night, and following a golf ball are some of the complaints cataract patients complain of. Initially one can compensate for cataracts with better lighting or perhaps new spectacles, but eventually surgery may be required. This becomes obvious when you lose the ability to function as you used to. Modern cataract surgery is very safe and effective. It was one of the first operations performed to remove unwanted material through a miniature incision.
At North Shore Eye Care approximately 1000 cataract surgeries are performed every year. Drs. Jeffrey Martin and Lawrence Zweibel who have been performing these procedures are also listed in Castle Connelly's Top Doctors recently shown in Newsday. Another new physician, Dr John Mauro has recently joined this group. Dr. Sidney Martin, who founded this group more than 40 years ago still actively practices.
At Norh Shore Eye Care we have been successfully treating patient from all parts of Long Island. From Montauk, the Hamptons, Southhold and Riverhead, to Hempsted, Mineola, Great Neck and Queens.

Astigmatism is a type of refractive error that is unique. Astigmatism means that the cornea is more egg shaped instead of being spherical like a basketball. Astigmatism makes a point source of light blur. Astigmatism causes visual blur at near and far and is fully correctable with glasses and also by laser vision correction or lasik laser eye surgery. Lasik or ilasik also treats nearsightedness or myopia and farsightedness or hyperopia. People that are nearsighted have difficulty with distance vision but see well near. People that are farsighted have more difficulty with near usually beginning later in life. Eventually, farsighted people also have difficulty with distance. When laser vision correction was first fda approved over 10 years ago, the board certified eye doctors and eye surgeons at North Shore Eye Care in Smithtown New York in Long Island were only able to treat nearsightedness, but today, Dr. Sidney Martin, Dr. Jeffrey Martin, Dr. Larry Zweibel and Dr. John Mauro are able to treat myopia, hyperopia and astigmatism. When it comes to astigmatism, it is important to make certain that the astigmatism is regular and symmetrical. Some eye conditions cause irregular or uneven astigmatism which can be a sign of a weakened cornea. In those situations, laser vision correction is not indicated. The board certified lasik doctors and lasik surgeons in Smithtown New York use only the very best in laser vision correction using Intralase or blade free lasik in all cases. We also use advanced customvue which is custom lasik with automatic centering and automatic tracking as well as iris registration for exact placement of each lasik correction. Dr. Martin and Dr. Zweibel have been recognized as "Top Doctors: New York Metro Area" by Castle Connolly for the last several years which further shows the level of committment to excellence at North Shore Eye Care.

In Long Island New York in suffolk and nassau counties, we see patients from smithtown, nesconset, saint james, kings park, islip, islandia, hauppauge, lake grove, holbrook, holtsville, bohemia, ronkonkoma, sayville, bay shore, babylon, commack, northport, stony brook, setauket, port jefferson, and many other towns.

Many patients ask the board certified eye doctors and eye surgeons about the possible costs involved in cataract surgery. Our board certified cataract surgeons and cataract doctors in Smithtown New York in Long Island are sensitive to pricing issues because we know that many of our seniors that need cataract surgery are on a fixed income. That being said, Dr. Sidney Martin, Dr. Jeffrey martin, Dr. Larry Zweibel and Dr. John Mauro understand that cataract surgery is mostly covered by medicare or insurance companies. For those patients without insurance, North Shore Eye Care works with the patients offering payment plans including zero interest financing through Care Credit. Most of our patients do have a relatively small copay associated with cataract surgery and the eye drop medications can also have some out of pocket expense although the medications are coverid by insurance as well. It seems to us that even with insurance, the patients financial burden is becoming more significant as copays become higher for office visits, surgery and medications. This is an obvious problem that we hope gets fixed as soon as possible with health care legislation although we are skeptical about the final outcome of healthcare reform.

In cataract surgery, after the cloudy lens or cataract is removed, our eye doctors replace the lens with a new implant to restore vision. The standard implants that allow for distance vision only are covered by most insurance plans. Patients can also elect to have a premium implant that allows for far and near vision without the use of glasses or contact lenses. The accommodating lens, crystalens as well as multifocal implants like tecnis multifocal, restor and rezoom help a patient to see far and near and decrease the need for glasses at all distances and possibly can deliver vision free of glasses at all distances. These premium implants do cost more and our patients do have added out of pocket expense. Our cataract doctors discuss these options with you and help you to make the best decision for you.

In Long Island New York in Suffolk and Nassau Counties, we see patients from cold spring harbor, huntington, commack, northport, greenlawn, centerport, dix hills, melville, lindenhurst, bay shore, babylon, smithtown, nesconset, saint james, kings park, plainview, bethpage, syosset, woodbury, manhasset, rockville center, garden city, mineola, deer park, massapequa, sayville, farmingdale, and many other towns.

Some patients at North Shore eye Care in Smithtown New York in Long Island do not qualify for lasik. Lasik is the method of laser vision correction that is most popular in our long island region due to the fact that the technology is amazing and the recovery is quick and relatively painless. With lasik, our board certified eye doctors and eye surgeons, Dr. Sidney Martin, Dr. Jeffrey Martin, Dr. Larry Zweibel, and Dr. John Mauro make a superficial flap in the cornea using Intralase, a blade free laser. This is the safest and most precise way to make a flap. We then use Customvue by Visx to make a waveprint by Wavescan which is like a fingerprint of your unique vision. This wavemap is then used to create a custom ablation which is centered and tracked automatically and we also use iris registration for the most exact placement of the laser vision correction. So, why do some patients not qualify for lasik.

Patients with thin cornea, irregular corneas and high presciptions tend to make better candidates for surface laser vision correction. Simply, a flap adds depth to the total depth of the procedure and in people with borderline available depth, we use prk, epilasik or lasek. These three laser eye surgery procedures are the same as lasik with the same results, except the customvue ablation is placed on the surface of the eye and not under a flap. In advanced surface ablation, the healing time is longer and there is more discomfort in the first few days. Besides, recovery time and comfort, surface laser vision correction is equal to lasik in visual results. In our smithtown new york long island lasik practice, our board certified lasik surgeons and lasik doctors do about 70 % lasik and 30% surface laser vision correction. This mix seems to be the safest.

In long island new york in suffolk and nassau counties, we see patients from smithtown, nesconset, saint james, kings park, centereach, selden, coram, middle island, riverhead, ridge, stony brook, setauket, port jefferson, miller place, mount sinai, rocky point, patchogue, medford, brookhaven, bayport, yaphank, shirley, mastic, moriches, calverton, manorville, shoreham, wading river, jamesport, mattituck, cutchogue, southold, eastport, westhampton, east hampton, sag harbor, southampton, hampton bays, montauk, head of the harbor, poquott, belle terre, old field, nissequogue, quogue, and many other towns.

Patients often ask the board certified eye doctors and eye surgeons at North Shore Eye Care in Smithtown New York in Long Island if cataract surgery is done with laser. Cataract surgery is currently done with computer controlled ultrasound called phacoemulsification. Although many patients still think that their cataract surgery was done with laser, we do not actually use laser during cataract surgery. There are lasers used in eye care and even after cataract surgery to remove the central part of the capsule of the lens if it is to become cloudy. Yag capsulotomy is fairly common and about 30 % of patients having cataract surgery will need laser for the capsule clouding. This Yag Capsulotomy is done in the office and takes about one minute. With cataract surgery, our board certified cataract doctors and cataract surgeons remove the cloudy lens of the eye and replace it with an intraocular lens or IOL. This lens implants helps to restore the vision to the best possible. Dr. Jeff Martin, Dr. larry Zweibel and Dr. John Mauro perform cataract surgery through small incisions and rarely use stitches, an eye patch or needles around the eyes. They use a very modern technique which is easy for our patients and great for quick visual recovery.

Dr. Martin and Dr. Zweibel have been included in Top Doctors New York Metro Area for the past few years by Castle connolly ltd and North Shore eye Care has been named a National Crystalens Center of Excellence by Bausch and Lomb. We are experts at accommodating lenses like Crystalens and multifocal implants like restor, rezoom, and tecnis multifocal. We use acrysof toric implants to reduce or eliminate astigmatism in many patients as well. These premium implants are designed to reduce or eliminate the use of glasses or contact lenses as much as possible.

In Long Island New yOrk in Suffolk and Nassau Counties, we see patients from smithtown, nesconset, saint james, kings park, islip, islandia, hauppauge, lake grove, bohemia, ronkonkoma, holtsville, holbrook, sayville, commack, stony brook, setauket, port jefferson, and many other towns.

Bladeless custom lasik is a great procedure for those patients with nearsightedness, farsightedness, and astigmatism. For over 10 years, North Shore Ey e Care in Smithtown New York in Long Island has been a leader in laser vision correction and laser eye surgery. Our board certified eye surgeons and eye doctors, Dr. Sidney Martin, Dr. Jeffrey Martin, Dr. Larry Zweibel and Dr. John Mauro do the very best laser eye surgery procedures and always keep patient outcomes and patient safety first. This means doing only the very best lasik procedures available. By doing only Intralase blade free lasik flaps combined with Visx Customvue with iris registation, we are making certain that all of the patients that trust us with their laser vision correction can know that they are having the very best lasik surgery by one of the most experienced lasik doctors or lasik surgeons in our region. As a matter of fact, Dr. Jeff martin and Dr. larry Zweibel have both been named "Top Doctors: New York metro Area" by Castle Connolly for the last few years further showing their committment to the best lasik and their capability to perform as a top doctor.

Since our eye doctors do only the top procedures, cost is always an important part of a lasik consultation. Some doctors are still using older technology like blades in lasik or non custom laser vision correction and those procedures will always be less money. Our feeling is that we will never compromise qualtiy for cost, but we are still sensitive to cost. Therefore, we offer zero percent financing for two years through Care Credit to help our patients pay for the procedure. We also welcome flex spending, credit cards and we actively help patients get necessary financing when they want our help.

In Long Island New York in Suffolk and Nassau counties, we see patients from smithtown, nesconset, saint james, kings park, fort salonga, cold spring harbor, huntington, commack, northport, centerport, greenlawn, dix hills, melville, deer park, lindenhurst, bay shore, babylon, farmingdale, farmingville, copaigue, amityville, plainview, bethpage, woodbury, syosset, manhasset, rockville center, garden city, new york city, brooklyn, queens, westbury, old westbury, and many other towns.

In Smithtown New york in long island, there is an expert cataract surgery practice called North Shore Eye Care. North Shore Eye Care was founded in 1962 by board certified eye doctor and eye surgeon, Dr. Sidney Martin. The practice blossomed into a general eye care practice that specializes in cataract surgery and laser vision correction. Our board certified eye doctors still care for patients with glaucoma, macular degeneration, diabetes, diabetic retinopathy, cataracts, dry eye, but our surgical speciality leans toward cataract surgery and ilasik bladeless custom lasik. Our cataract surgery takes a few minutes and we routinely use only eye drops for anesthesia and IV sedation for comfort. We do not use needles, eye patches, stitches and our patients return to the comfort of their home the very same day seeing well. Our board certified cataract surgeons successfully treat one thousand cataracts each year and North Shore Eye Care has been labelled a National Crystalens Center of Excellence by Bausch and Lomb. Dr. Jeff Martin and dr. Zweibel have also been named top doctors in the new york metro area by Castle Connolly for the last several years. We use many premium implants that are designed to make patients less dependent on glasses and contact lenses. The accommodating lens, Crystalens has been very popular with our patients and we also use multifocal implants like restor, rezoom, and tecnis multifocal. Our patients are able to see without glasses or contact lenses in most cases and are able to finance with Care Credit interest free for two years. We also use a toric implant to reduce or eliminate astigmatism.

The recovery from cataract surgery is quite simple. Dr. Martin asks our patients to limit heavy lifting and heavy activity for one week. After one week, our patients are at full activity and enjoying great vision.

In Long Island New York in Suffolk and Nassau Counties, we see patients from smithtown, nesconset, saint james, kings park, centereach, selden, coram, middle island, farmingville, farmingdale, stony brook,setauket, port jefferson, shoreham, wading river, ridge, riverhead, miller place, mount sinai, rocky point, patchogue, medford, brookhaven, mastic, moriches, yaphank, shirley, manorville, calverton, jamesport, cutchogue, mattituck, southold, montauk, eastport, westhampton, quogue, east hampton, southampton, sag harbor, amagansett, hampton bays, bayport, bellport, and many other towns.

North Shore Eye Care was founded by board certified eye doctor and eye surgeon, Dr. Sidney Martin in 1962 and at that time, the eye care practice took care of patients with glaucoma, macular degeneration, diabetes and diabetic retinopathy, cataracts, dry eye and later with the addition of Dr. Jeffrey Martin and Dr. Larry Zweibel and Dr. John Mauro, North Shore eye Care became a leader in ilasik bladeless custom lasik and laser vision correction in the Smithtown New York Tristate area in long island. Dr. Jeff Martin and Dr. Larry Zweibel have been included in Top Doctors in the New York Metro Area by Castle Connolly for the last few years and all of the eye doctors and eye surgeons at our Long Island practice are board certified. We are often asked about risks and complications of lasik and prk or epilasik (lasek). Dr. Jeff Martin feels that by using the very best technology in lasik, most potential complications can be avoided. Years ago, many of the complications of lasik came from making an imperfect flap as the first step of lasik laser eye surgery. The flap was made with a metal blade machine called a microkeratome and at times, the flaps could become torn or profoundly irregular. By switching to 100 % blade free flaps with Intralase, our flaps are made with a laser for the safest and most precise flap possible. When the laser vision correction ablations were less pristine and sophisticated, there were occasional irregularities in vision following lasik like blurred vision and halo at night. There were also more enhancements or touch-ups necessary. With Visx Customvue custom lasik, we now get a fingerprint or waveprint of each patients vision and this automatically tracks and centers as well as uses iris registration for the most accurate results possible.

So in Dr. Jeff Martin's opinion, the way to the very best result in lasik is to only use the very best technology.

In long island new york in suffolk and nassau counties, we see patients from smithtown, nesconset, saint james, kings park, islip, islandia, hauppauge, lake grove, holbrook, holtsville, ronkonkoma, bohemia, sayville, bay shore, babylon, commack, stony brook, setauket, port jefferson, centereach, selden, head of the harbor, nissequogue, poquott, belle terre, old field, and many other towns.

Cataract surgery is a very successful procedure and the board certified eye doctors and eye surgeons at North Shore Eye Care in Smithtown New York in Long Island have been performing roughly one thousand cataract operations each year for many years. Our board certified cataract doctors and cataract surgeons, Dr. Jeffrey Martin, Dr. Larry Zweibel and Dr. John Mauro specialize in the most advanced techniques and technology to give their patients the very best outcome. Dr. Jeff Martin has been named Top Doctor: New York Metro Area for the past several years and North Shore eye care has been named a National Crystalens Cataract Surgery Center of Excellence. Dr. Martin specializes in premium implants following cataract surgery such as crystalens, an accommodating lens and Restor, Rezoom, and Tecnis multifocal, which are multifocal lenses. These premium implants allow patients to see far and near without glasses or contact lenses in most cases. We also enjoy using the toric implant by Alcon that reduces or eliminates astigmatism.

Every cataract patient wants to know the possible complications of cataract surgery. We tell them that the chance of complication is small, far less than one percent at our Smithtown New York Long island practice, but cataract surgery is an operation. In cataract surgery, a patient can get an infection and a severe infection could result in vision loss or loss of the eye. There can be hemorrhage, but we do not use injections routinely so the chance of hemorrhage is greatly reduced. There can be rare complications such as the need for additional surgery if the cataract cloudy lens does not come out completely or if the new implant does not stay in place. There can be retinal detachment or high intraocular pressures for a variety of reasons. Although this sounds scary, our cataract experts take several steps to ensure the best results and complications are rare.

In Long Island New York in Suffolk and Nassau Counties, we see patients from huntington, cold spring harbor, commack, northport, greenlawn, centerport, dix hills, melville, deer park, smithtown, nesconset, saint james, kings park, fort salonga, massapequa, lindenhurst, woodbury, syosset, bethpage, levittown, plainview, sayville, bay shore, babylon, manhasset, rockville center, garden city, and many other towns.

The board certified eye doctors and eye surgeons at North Shore Eye Care have been performing the best in lasik laser eye surgery for over 10 years. The procedure has improved dramatically over time and our lasik surgeons and lasik doctors have continued to lead the way in the field of laser vision correction. Dr. Jeffrey Martin has been included in Top Doctors: New York Metro Area for the past few years and he has committed himself to excellence in ilasik bladeless custom lasik. Dr. Larry Zweibel and Dr. John Mauro are board certified lasik surgeons at North Shore Eye Care in Smithtown New York in Long island as well.

Monovision is a way of performing lasik that attempts to allow a patient that is presbyopic to continue to live their life without glasses for near or far. Presbyopia is a process that happens to every patients. When you enter your 40s, the lens of the eye becomes more rigid so that those with good distance vision begin to need reading glasses and those with a distance prescription begin to need bifocals or need to take off their glasses to read. With lasik for distance in both eyes, these patients will need to still wear reading glasses. With monovision ilasik, one eye has laser vision correction for distance and one eye has laser vision correction for near. In this situation with both eyes open, patients see far out of their dominant eye and near out of their non-dominant eye. Most patients that are motivated to not wear glasses do well with monovision. Patients that want the best possible distance vision still do better with straight distance correction with lasik laser vision correction. All of our lasik is blade free with Intralase and Customized using Visx Customvue with iris registration and automatic centering and tracking. This is the most advanced way to perform lasik.

In Long Island New York in Suffolk and Nassau Counties, we see patients from smithtown, nesconset, saint james, kings park, centereach, selden, coram, middle island, ridge, riverhead, shoreham, wading river, stony brook, setauket, port, jefferson, miller place, mount sinai, rocky point, patchogue, medford, brookhaven, yaphank, mastic, moriches, calverton, shirley, manorville, eastport, westhampton, east hampton, hampton bays, quogue, sag harbor, southampton, jamesport, cutchogue, mattituck, southold, bayport, bellport, farmingville, farmingdale, new york city, queens, brooklyn, and other towns.

Cataract is the clouding of the natural lens of the eye. Cataracts develop in most people as they age and with time, cataracts may begin to interfere with a patients quality of life. Some patients develop cataract earlier in life and patients can even be born with a cataract. However, the typical course is that as a person enters their 60's, 70s and 80s, the lens of the can be cloudy enough that patients are bothered on a daily basis. Dr. Jeffrey Martin of North Shore Eye Care in Smithtown new york in Long Island is a board certified eye surgeon and eye doctor who specializes in cataract surgery and intraocular lens implantation. The symptoms of cataract begin with glare with oncoming headlights while driving at night, glare with sunlight and slow progressive loss of vision. Things in the world look less sharp and things that we take for granted such as reading a book or seeing a sign while driving can become difficult. When the symptoms of blurred vision or glare get to the point where a patient feels less safe with their activities of daily living, Dr. Martin would recommend cataract surgery. In cataract surgery, the cloudy lens of the is removed and a new intraocular lens implant or IOL replaces the defective lens. Dr. Jeff Martin performs this through a small incision using just eye drops to numb the eye and IV sedation for relaxation. At North Shore Eye Care, we rarely use stitches, an eye patch or needles around the eye. Dr. Martin, a board certified cataract doctor and cataract surgeon has been featured in Top Doctors: New York Metro Area and North Shore Eye Care has been named a Crystalens Cataract surgery National Center of Excellence by Bausch and Lomb. We specialize in premium implants such as Crystalens, Restor, Rezoom, Tecnis Multifocal and Acrysof Toric implant for astigmatism.

In Long Island new York in suffolk and Nassau counties, we see patients from smithtown, nesconset, saint james, kings park, hauppauge, lake grove, bohemia, ronkonkoma, holtsville, holbrook, sayville, commack, stony brook, setauket, port jefferson, farmingdale, farmingville, islip, islandia, new york city, brooklyn, queens, and many other towns.

Ilasik is the most technologically method of lasik available in the world today and ilasik is the only way that the board certified lasik doctors and lasik surgeons at North Shore Eye Care in Smithtown new York in Long island perform the laser eye surgery procedure. Ilasik describes a method of lasik that is completely blade free and customized. As the first step of lasik, a thin flap is made in the superficial layers of the cornea. This flap is made with a laser called Intralase in ilasik. Intralase makes the thinnest and most precise flap possible as well as the safest flap. We then do Visx Customvue laser vision correction using wavescan to make a waveprint or wavemap which is like a fingerprint of your vision. The lasik laser automatically centers and tracks your eye movements as well as uses iris registration for the very best results. Iris registration allows the laser to recognize the unique landmarks on each patients iris so that the laser is placed precisely where it should be placed. Bladeless custom lasik or ilasik is the only way to have lasik according to our eye doctors and eye surgeons, Dr. Jeffrey martin, Dr. Larry Zweibel and Dr. John Mauro. Dr. Jeff Martin and Dr. larry Zweibel have been included in Top Doctors: New York Metro Area by Castle Connolly ltd and as seen in Newsday for the last several years. This further highlights our committment to excellence in laser vision correction.

At times, advanced surface ablation such as prk, epilasik or lasek is the better procedure for patients. The healing time can be a bit longer, but surface laser vision correction is customized the same as lasik and the final visual results are the same. Patients with thin corneas, irregular corneas, or high prescriptions often do better with prk.

In Long Island new york in suffolk and nassau counties, we see patients from smithtown, nesconset, saint james, kings park, fort salonga, cold spring harbor, huntington, commack, northport, greenlawn, centerport, dix hills, melville, deer park, bethpage, plainview, woodbury, syosset, massapequa, manhasset, rockville center, lindenhurst, babylon, bay shore, farmingdale, farmingville, jericho, hicksville, levittown, merrick, east meadow, westbury, mineola, roslyn, garden city, and many other towns.

Cataract surgery is an amazing outpatient procedure for those patients that have cataracts that are affecting their quality of life. A cataract is a clouding of the natural lens of the eye and eventually causes symptoms like glare with lights at night, glare with sunlight and blurred vision. When a cataract gets to the point that it is negatively affecting a patients life, our board certified eye doctors and eye surgeons, Dr. Jeffrey Martin, Dr. Larry Zweibel and Dr. John Mauro specialize in cataract surgery to improve your vision and quality of life. The cataract surgery takes about 10 minutes and is painless. We use eye drops for anesthesia and rarely use an eye patch, stitches or needles around the eye. Our patients return home the very same day and are able to see right away. Dr. Martin and Dr. Zweibel have been named top doctors in the New york Metro Area by Castle Connolly and North Shore Eye Care in Smithtown New york in Long Island has been named a Crystalens National Center of Excellence by Bausch and Lomb.

After a cataract is removed, we use an implant lens to restore vision. The standard implant lenses or IOLs make a patient able to see distance but not close without glasses. The accommodating lens, Crystalens allows for distance and reading without glasses or contact lenses in most cases. The crystalens works by moving slightly in the eye when focusing the natural involuntary muscles of accommodating. This movement of the lens gives a better range of vision and allows clarity from far to near. There are also multifocal implants like restor, rezoom, and tecnis multifocal. These lenses have rings that alternate near and far and give simultaneous near and far vision. They work well, but patients can sometimes be bothered by glare or rings around lights at night. It is important to match the implant lens to the patient.

In Long island new york in suffolk and nassau counties, we see patients from smithtown, nesconset, saint james, kings park, centereach, selden coram, middle island, riverhead, ridge, stony brook, setauket, port jefferson, shoreham, wading river, rocky point, miller place, mount sinai, calverton, shirley, manorville, patchogue, medford, brookhaven, bayport, bellport, yaphank, mastic, moriches, eastport, westhampton, quogue, east hampton, sag harbor, southampton, hampton bays, jamesport, cutchogue, mattituck, southold, montauk, and many other towns.

Laser vision correction is an incredibly advanced laser eye surgery that has helped millions of people get rid of their glasses and contact lenses. Lasik is the most popular laser vision correction procedure and it pairs a flap making in the superficial layers of the cornea followed by the lasik vision correction under the flap. With lasik, visual recovery is quick and the healing time is short and painless. There are different types of lasik and it is important that you pick the most advanced lasik procedure. The ilasik or bladeless custom lasik, the flap is made the a laser called Intralase instead of the older blade machines. The vision correction is custom meaning the laser uses customvue wavescan to get a custom fingerprint of your vision that precisely aligns to your eye using iris registration, automatic centering and automatic tracking. The eye doctors and eye surgeons at North Shore eye Care in Smithtown New York in Suffolk county of Long Island only do bladeless custom lasik and only use the most advanced procedure available. Many doctors do non-custom laser vision correction with blades, but the board certified lasik surgeons at our Smithtown New york practice, Dr. Jeffrey Martin, Dr. Larry Zweibel and Dr. John Mauro do all custom and all blade free lasik. This turns out the best results possible for our patients with nearsightedness or myopia, farsightedness or hyperopia, as well as astigmatism. Dr. Jeff Martin and Dr. Zweibel, both Top Doctors in the New York Metro Area by Castle Connolly ltd have been doing laser eye surgery for over 10 years and have thousands of satisfied lasik patients. Our patients are the main source of our continued success and we are proud of that fact.

In Long Island in Suffolk and Nassau Counties, we see patients from smithtown, nesconset, saint james, kings park, islip, islandia, hauppauge, lake grove, bohemia, ronkonkoma, holtsville, holbrook, lindenhurst, rockville center, commack, stony brook, setauket, and port jefferson.

North Shore eye Care is a complete eye care practice with four board certified eye doctors and eye surgeons. The comprehensive eye care practice was founded by Dr. Sidney Martin in 1962 and has steadily grown since then. In the early days, Dr. Martin had many patients with a variety of eye care problems such as glaucoma, macular degeneration, cataracts, dry eye, diabetes and diabetic eye disease, eyelid problems as well as other eye conditions such as eye infections. Dr. Larry Zweibel and later Dr. Jeffrey Martin joined North Shore Eye Care in Smithtown New York in Long island and further enhanced the quality of excellence that Dr. Sid Martin began. Most recently, Dr. John Mauro joined the practice to make the current roster of cataract doctors and cataract surgeons. North Shore Eye Care performs many cataract surgeries each year and every year, more patients are referred by friends and family. The popularity of our doctors is further highlighted with Dr. Jeff martin and Dr. Larry Zweibel being voted "Top Doctors: New York Metro Area" by the Castle Connolly guide for several years and North Shore eye being voted a National crystalens cataract surgery center of excellence.

The techniques that we use in cataract surgery are state of the art. The operation takes about 10 minutes and is done with just eye drop anesthesia. We use IV sedation to relax our patients. Our patients are able to stay in their own comfortable clothes and go home the very same day and are able to use their eye right away. There are no eye patches, stitches, or even a needle injection around the eye. In this way, our patients remain very comfortable and are very pleased with the results.

In Long Island New York in Suffolk and Nassau County, we see patients from smithtown, nesconset, saint james, kings park, fort salonga, huntington, cold spring harbor, commack, northport, greenlawn, centerport, dix hills, melville, farmingdale, farmingville, lindenhurst, massapequa, bay shore, babylon, plainview, woodbury, syosset, bethpage, new york city, deer park, brooklyn, queens, and many other towns.

Cataract surgery in Long Island New York in Smithtown has progressed to the state of art. At North Shore Eye Care, we three board certified eye doctors and eye surgeons that perform many hundred cataract surgery procedures each year. Our patients are able to stay in their own comfortable clothes and they receive IV sedation to relax. We then perform the cataract surgery through a small incision using eye drops for anesthesia. Cataract surgery takes about 10 minutes and is painless. Our patients are able to see that day and return to normal activities quickly. Dr. Jeffrey Martin, Dr. Lawrence Zweibel, and Dr. John Mauro are board certified and Dr. Zweibel and Dr. Martin have been included in "Top Doctors: New York Metro Area" by Castle Connolly for the last several years. In cataract surgery, the natural lens of the eye gets cloudy and needs to be removed. We then insert an intraocular lens or IOL that is used to restore vision.

The board certified cataract doctors and cataract surgeons at North Shore Eye Care specialize in implant lenses that are designed to reduce the need of glasses and contact lenses. We use accommodating lenses such as the crystalens that moves in the eye and increases the depth of focus. This translates in to better vision at a variety of distances. We also use multifocal implants that see far and near due to a ring system. Tecnis Multifocal, Restor, and Rezoom are three types of multifocals that work in the same fashion. The Acrysof Toric implant corrects astigmatism and allows patients with astigmatism to see without the need for glasses and contact lenses.

In Long Island New york in suffolk and nassau counties, we see patients from smithtown, nesconset, saint james, kings park, centereach, selden, coram, middle island, riverhead, ridge, stony brook, setauket, port jefferson, rocky point, miller place, mount sinai, patchogue, medford, brookhaven, bellport, bayport, yaphank, mastic, moriches, shirley, manorville, calverton, eastport, westhampton, southampton, east hampton, sag harbor, hampton bays, quogue, southold, mattituck, jamesport, cutchogue, sound beach, old field, poquott, belle terre, head of the harbor, nissequogue, farmingdale, farmingville, and many other towns.

North Shore Eye Care is a complete eye care practice that was founded by Dr. Sidney Martin in 1962. He founded the eye care practice to take care of patients with glaucoma, macular degeneration, diabetes and diabetic retinopathy, cataracts, dry eye and many other eye problems. The eye care and eye surgery center grew to have three board certified eye doctors and cataract surgeons that were all board certified. Dr. Sid Martin, Dr. Larry Zweibel and Dr. Jeffrey Martin have all been featured in Top Doctors in the New York Metro Area by Castle Connolly putting them among the teop ten percent of practicing doctors in our region of Long Island New York. Recently, Dr. John Mauro, another board certified cataract and lasik doctor joined North Shore Eye Care to continue the tradition of excellent eye care in our Smithtown area.

In lasik, our lasik doctors and lasik surgeons insist on the very best lasik laser eye surgery possible. Our ilasik bladeless custom lasik procedure uses Intralase to form a superficial flap in the cornea. This is the safest and most precise way to make a flap. We then use Visx Customvue to make a custom waveprint or wavemap so that the laser vision correction is completely customized to your unique visual system. We use iris registration in every lasik procedure possible which helps to exactly line up the lasik laser eye surgery with your eye and it also automatically centers and tracks your eye movements during the laser vision correction surgery. In order to finance this wonderful life changing lasik bladeless custom lasik procedue, we offer two year zero interest financing through Care Credit. Many of our patients enjoy lasik financing so that they can strech out the financial burden with no interest.

In Long Island New York in Suffolk and Nassau County, we see patients from smithtown, nesconset, saint james, kings park, commack, stony brook, setauket, port jefferson, islip, islandia, holbrook, holtsville, bohemia, ronkonkoma, hauppauge, lake grove, sayville, bay shore, babylon, lindenhurst, and many other towns such as farmingdale, and farmingville.

North Shore Eye Care was founded by Dr. Sidney Martin in 1962. Dr. Martin was the first eye doctor and eye surgeon in smithtown New York in Long Island and he was quickly busy taking care of patients with glaucoma, macular degeneration, diabetes and diabetic retinopathy, cataracts and later laser eye surgery of different types. Dr. Sid Martin later took on Dr. Larry Zweibel and later his son, Dr. Jeffrey Martin. Our board certified eye doctors and eye surgeons continued to grow their eye care and eye surgical practice and have most recently took on Dr. John Mauro as their latest cataract doctor and cataract surgeon.

In modern cataract surgery, our cataract doctors and cataract surgeons use eye drop anesthesia and remove the cataract or cloudy lens through a small incision and do not use stitches, needles around the eyes or even an eye patch. The cataract surgery takes about 10 minutes and our patients are able to return to the comfort of their home the very same day. Our patients are able to stay in their own comfortable clothes through the whole process and rarely sense any discomfort or pain. Our patients are able to see immediately after surgery and start their postoperative eye drops right away.

After removing a cataract, our board certified eye doctors replace the lens with an intraocular lens implant or IOL. Dr. Martin, Dr. Zweibel and Dr. Mauro specialize in premium implants that allow our patients to see far and near without the use of glasses or contact lenses. We use multifocal implants such as rezoom, restor, tecnis multifocal and also accommodating implants like the Crystlalens. North Shore Eye Care has been named a National Crystalens Center of Excellence in Cataract Surgery by Bausch and Lomb. We use Alcon Acrysof Toric for the reduction or elimination of astigmatism.

In long Island New York in Suffolk and Nassau Counties, we see patients from smithtown, nesconset, saint james, kings park, fort salonga, cold spring harbor, huntington, commack, northport, greenlawn, deer park, dix hills, melville, bay shore, babylon, bethpage, plainview, woodbury, syosset. manhasset, centerport, massapequa, lindenhurst, and many other towns like new york city, manhattan, brooklyn, queens, and many other towns.

Some patients are nervous about laser vision correction. The feeling that things might not go well keeps them from having laser eye surgery and that fear can be difficult for them to deal with. Some feel that contact lenses are much safer than laser vision correction and even when patients start to get infections and intolerance symptoms, there can be a fair amount of denial. Once contact lens intolerance begins, usually it leads to the point where patients can not comfortably wear contact lenses for any period of time. The eyes of these patients tend to be red and irritated and the risk of corneal infection or corneal ulceration with significant risk of vision loss becomes more prevalent. Contact lens related corneal infections can be severe and vision threatening. Any eye doctor or eye surgeon that has been around long enough has seen permanent vision loss secondary to contact lens related corneal ulcers.

At North Shore Eye Care in Smithtown New York in Long Island, our board certified lasik doctors and lasik surgeons specialize in the best in bladeless custom lasik, ilasik. This laser vision correction procedure is very safe and effective because our eye doctors use the best techniques and have a tremendous amount of experience. In ilasik, we use Intralase to make a safe and precise blade free flap in the superficial layers of the cornea. We then use Visx Customvue to make a waveprint which is like a fingerprint of your unique vision. Custom lasik also uses iris registration to exactly center the lasik vision correction and automatic centering and automatic tracking of your eye movements during the surgery. Dr. Jeffrey Martin, Dr. Lawrence Zweibel and Dr. John Mauro all use only the best possible lasik procedures to correct the vision of many patients every year.

In Long Island New York in Suffolk and Nassau Counties, we see patients from smithtown, nesconset, saint james, kings park, centereach, selden, coram, middle island, ridge, riverhead, manorville, calverton, stony brook, setauket, port jefferson, shoreham, wading river, miller place, mount sinai, rocky point, patchogue, medford, brookhaven, yaphank, shirley, mastic, moriches, bayport, bellport, eastport, quogue, westhampton, east hampton, sag harbor, hampton bays, montauk, southampton, jamesport, cutchogue, mattituck, southold, new york city, queens, brooklyn, and other towns.

Cataract surgery has come a long way since Dr. Sidney Martin founded North Shore Eye Care in Smithtown New York in Long island in 1962. Back then, North Shore Eye Care was a small practice run by Dr. Martin and his wife. They saw patients with many different eye problems including cataracts, glaucoma, macular degeneration, diabetes and diabetic retinopathy, dry eye, blephartitis, and multiple conditions in need of eye laser therapy. As time went on and the practice grew, Dr. Larry Zweibel and then his son, Dr. Jeffrey Martin joined the group of board certified eye doctors and eye surgeons. Most recently, Dr. John Mauro joined North Shore eye Care as a cataract surgery and lasik bladeless custom lasik surgeon. North Shore Eye Care is known in Suffolk and Nassau Counties to be at the forefront of cataract surgery and laser vision correction and has been named a Crystalens National Cataract Surgery Center of Excellence and Dr. Jeff Martin and Dr. Larry Zweibel have both been named Top Doctors in the New York Metro Area for the past several years by Castle Connolly ltd.

When our board certified eye doctors and eye surgeons remove your cataract, they replace it with a lens implant or IOL. There are standard distance implants that allow our patients to see in the distance with no glasses, but they do need assistance for near work. Some of the newer premium implants allow for distance and close vision without glasses or contact lenses. There are accommodating implants like the crystalens and multifocal implants like restor, rezoom, and tecnis multifocal. Our patients often ask our eye doctors is these fancy implants are worth the extra payment. The answer is quite simple. If you desire to depend on glasses less or not at all and can finance it however you are comfortable, then there is very little reason not to go for the better implant.

In Long Island New York in Suffolk and Nassau Counties, we see patients from smithtown, nesconset, saint james, kings park, fort salonga, islip, islandia, hauppauge, lake grove, holbrook, holtsville, bohemia, ronkonkoma, sayville, commack, stony brook, setauket, port jefferson, farmingdale, farmingville, and many other towns.

When it comes to lasik, a patient has to decide who they want to perform their laser vision correction. This decision is not easy, but is often made easier by a friend's referral or by an excellent experience on a free lasik laser eye surgery consultation. At North Shore Eye Care in Smithtown New York in Long Island, our board certified eye doctors and eye surgeons do their best to make every patient comfortable every step of the way. From the moment you come to North Shore eye Care in Suffolk County of Long Island, you will feel well informed and comfortable and you will know that you have arrived at the bladeless custom lasik practice of the experts in their field. Dr. Jeffrey Martin and Dr. Larry Zweibel have both been voted "Top Doctors: New York Metro Area" by Castle Connolly ltd for the last several years that names them among the top ten percent of practicing doctors in the region.

We perform lasik only in the best possible way available. We use Intralase, which is a blade-free laser that makes the most precise and safest flap possible. We then use Visx Customvue to complete the laser vision correction. The wavescan makes a custom waveprint or wavemap of each patients eyes so that each laser eye surgery is completely customized. We use iris registration in every case so that the laser centers itself on the unique iris landmarks of each person's cornea. This ilasik procedure translates to the very best results possible every time. Our patients benefit from the fact that our technology is cutting edge and our commitment to excellence is to the highest level.

In Long Island New york in suffolk and Nassau county, we see patients from huntington, cold spring harbor, commack, northport, centerport, greenlawn, melville, dix hills, deer park, bay shore, babylon, massapequa, lindenhurst, sayville, plainview, bethpage, woodbury, syosset, muttontown, laurel hollow, manhasset, jericho, new york city, brooklyn, queens, smithtown, nesconset, saint james, kings park, fort salonga and many other towns.

Cataracts are a natural clouding of the lens of the eye that happens as we age. Some people develop visually significant cataracts earlier in life, but most become bothered by the symptoms of cataract later in life. A cataract is not a film over the eye; it is actually the lens itself that becomes cloudy. So when does a patient decide to have cataract surgery? When the cataract causes enough of a problem in the activities of daily living such as glare with headlights at night, glare with sunlight and general blurred vision. That decision is usually made between the patient and the patients eye doctor or eye surgeon. At North Shore Eye Care in Smithtown New York in Long Island, we specialize in cataract surgery and help our patients through this intimidating and sometimes fearful decision. From the moment you walk through the doors at North Shore Eye Care, our staff treats you with respect and dignity as well as with warm professionalism. Our technical staff is well trained and helps begin the examination process. You then meet with one of our board certified cataract doctors or cataract surgeons, Dr. Jeffrey Martin, Dr. Larry Zweibel, or Dr. John Mauro. They completely examine your eye and then speak at length about the findings and your possible choices. At times, we tell our patients to wait longer and sometimes our patients are ready for eye surgery. We specialize in using the best in intraocular implants following cataract surgery to restore vision. Many of the implants or IOLs today make a patient able to see far and near without the use of glasses or contact lenses. The accommodating implant, crystalens and the multifocal implants, restor, rezoom, and tecnis multifocal can accomplish this. We also use toric implants that reduce or eliminate astigmatism, giving a patient clearer vision without glasses.

In Long Island New York in suffolk and nassau counties, we see patients from smithtown, nesconset, saint james, kings park, centereach, selden, coram, middle island, ridge, riverhead, shoreham, wading river, miller place, mount sinai, rocky point, stony brook, setauket, port jefferson, patchogue, medford, shirley, mastic, moriches, brookhaven, bayport, bellport, eastport, westhampton, east hampton, quogue, sag harbor, hampton bays, southampton, manorville, yaphank, farmingville, farmingdale, calverton, jamesport, cutchogue, mattituck, southold, montauk, and many other towns.

Thousands of patients from Long Island in New York have benefited from ilasik bladeless custom lasik at North Shore Eye Care in Smithtown New York. At North Shore eye Care, our board certified eye doctors and eye surgeons specialize in the best in lasik laser eye surgery and laser vision correction. When you come to visit us for a free lasik evaluation, our board certified lasik surgeons, Dr. Jeffrey Martin, Dr. Larry Zweibel and Dr. John Mauro, personally examine your eyes and use computerized testing such as pachymetry and topography of your unique cornea. Our eye doctors discuss the potential risks and benefits of your particular eyes and give you a recommendation of your best option. About 70 % of patients can safely have lasik and about 30 % are better served with PRK or advanced surface ablation like lasek, epilasik, or prk. Patients with thin corneas, irregular corneas or high presciptions tend to be better candidates for surface laser vision correction because surface laser vision correction spares more cornea. The healing for prk is slower and patients have to be ready to take it easy for about a week or so.

From the moment you walk through the doors at North Shore Eye Care, you are greeted by our professional compassionate staff and are helped through your decision to have lasik laser eye surgery. We help to explain what makes us different like the fact that we do only blade free custom procedures, which is the safest and most precise way to have lasik. You will never have a blade used during laser vision correction and we use Visx Customvue with iris registration in every case possible. This translates to the best results possible and that is how we have grown our laser vision correction practice.

In long Island New York in suffolk and nassau counties, we see patients from smithtown, nesconset, saint james, kings park, fort salonga, islip, islandia, hauppauge, lake grove, bohemia, ronkonkoma, holtsville, holbrook, sayville, bay shore, babylon, commack, stony brook, setauket, port jefferson, dix hills, melville, nissequogue, head of the harbor, old field, sound beach, belle terre, poquott, new york city, manhattan, brooklyn, queens and many other towns

Cataract surgery has been performed over many years and the progress and success of the cataract treatment has improved dramatically over time. Dr. Sidney Martin founded North Shore Eye Care in Smithtown New York in Long Island in 1962. At that time cataract surgery was performed under general anesthesia and the recovery lasted one week in the hospital. There were no intraocular implants or IOLs, so every cataract surgery patient had to wear distortion prone aphakic thick glasses. Needless to say, many patients were not interested and patients waited until they were legally blind to have the cataract treatment.

Eye care has changed since then and our current board certified cataract surgeons and cataract doctors, Dr. Jeffrey Martin, Dr. Lawrence Zweibel and Dr. John Mauro have been at the forefront of cataract technology. Our eye doctors are now able to perform cataract surgery in about 10 minutes on average and no longer use stitches, needles around the eyes or even an eye patch. Our patients stay in their own comfortable clothes, receive IV sedation and the eye is made comfortable with anesthesia eye drops. Our patients return to the comfort of their home the very same day already seeing an improvement in vision. The advanced techniques that Dr. Martin, Dr. Zweibel and Dr. Mauro use has been noticed nationally and North Shore Eye Care has been named a National Crystalens Cataract Surgery Center of Excellence by Bausch and Lomb. Dr. Martin and Dr. Zweibel have also been named "Top Doctors: New York Metro Area" by Castle Connolly ltd.

After a cataract or cloudy lens is removed, we replace the lens with an IOL. We specialize in the best in implants including the Crystalens, a accommodating implant as well as the Tecnis Multifocal, Restor, and Rezoom, which are multifocal implants. These implants are designed to create less dependence on glasses following eye surgery.

In Long Island New York in Suffolk and Nassau Counties, we see patients from Cold Spring Harbor, huntington, commack, northport, centerport, greenlawn, deer park, dix hills, melville, bethpage, syosset, woodbury, plainview, manhasset, bay shore, babylon, lindenhurst, massapequa, farmingdale, farmingville, smithtown, nesconset, saint james, kings park, fort salonga, westbury, east meadow, new york city, queens, brooklyn, and many other towns.

North Shore Eye Care was founded by Dr. Sidney Martin, board certified eye doctor and eye surgeon, in 1962. The eye care practice has taken care of many patients with cataracts, dry eye, macular degeneration, diabetes and diabetic retinopathy, as well as laser eye surgery and laser vision correction. In the early days, Dr. Martin was happy with his variety of patients and as the eye care practice grew, the specialty type of eye care became more prevalent. Today, North Shore Eye Care has three board certified lasik surgeons and lasik doctors in Dr. Jeffrey Martin, Dr. Larry Zweibel and Dr. John Mauro. Dr. Sid Martin still works part time at 80 years of age.

With a greater specialization in cataract surgery and laser vision correction, North Shore Eye Care led the way with the advent of lasik and bladeless custom lasik. In Smithtown, New York on Long Island in Suffolk County, Dr. Martin and Dr. Zweibel are the largest providers of ilasik and pride themselves in being chosen as "Top Doctors in the New York Metro Area" by Castle Connolly ltd. All of the lasik laser eye surgery done at our Long Island practice is blade free using Intralase to make the first step of lasik the safest and most precise that it can be. We then use Visx Customvue to do a custom laser vision correction that automatically centers, automatically tracks and uses iris registration for exact centration every case. Our patients truly appreciate the professional compassionate eye care and eye surgical care that they get at our practice. The eye doctor and eye surgeon that sees you for your free lasik consultation is the same doctor that does the surgery and also does the follow-up. We do not delegate important parts of the work up and surgical plan to other providers of eye care.

In Long Island new York in Suffolk and Nassau County, we see patients from stony brook setauket, port jefferson, miller place, mount sinai, rocky point, centereach, coram, selden, middle island, ridge, riverhead, shoreham, wading river, calverton, manorville, shirley, mastic, moriches, yaphank, brookhaven, bellport, bayport, eastport, westhampton, hampton bays, southampton, east hampton, sag harbor, montauk, southold, mattituck, jamesport, cutchogue, patchogue, medford, smithtown, nesconset, saint james, kings park, sound beach, old field, belle terre, poquott, quogue,and many other towns.

North Shore Eye Care was founded in 1962 by Dr. Sidney Martin, a board certified eye doctor and eye surgeon, that came to Long Island New York to establish an eye care practice. In those days, Dr. Martin treated a variety of patients including patients with glaucoma, cataracts, diabetes and diabetic retinopathy, macular degeneration, and dry eye. An eye doctor back then took care of everything that came into the office because there were not specialists in certain areas of eye care like laser eye surgery or lasik. Over the years, the eye care practice grew and the eye center incorporated a more focused approach to advanced cataract surgery and bladeless custom lasik. Dr. Sid Martin still works part time, but the three board certified eye surgeons that do they cataract surgery and lasik at North Shore Eye Care are Dr. Jeffrey Martin, Dr. Lawrence Zweibel and Dr. John Mauro. Cataract surgery at North Shore Eye Care is performed through a small incision using IV sedation and numbing eye drops. Our patients stay in their own comfortable clothes and return home with better vision the very same day. Our cataract doctors and cataract surgeons do not use stitches, an eye patch or even injections around the eye. This leads to the fastest visual recovery and comfort throughout the cataract treatment. After the cataract or cloudy lens is removed using phacoemulsification or computer controlled ultrasound, a intraocular lens implant or IOL is used to restore vision. We use the best implants in the industry including the accommodating implant, crystalens and multifocal implants, restor, rezoom, and tecnis multifocal. We also highly recommend the alcon acrysof toric implant to reduce or eliminate astigmatism. All of the premium lens implants are designed to reduce the use of glasses or contact lenses for all activities including far and near activities.

In Long Island New York in Suffolk and Nassau Counties, we see patients from smithtown, nesconset, saint james, kings park, fort salonga, holbrook, holtsville, bohemia, ronkonkoma, islip, islandia, hauppauge, lake grove, sayville, bay shore, babylon, commack, stony brook, setauket, port jefferson, farmingdale, farmingville, and many other towns.

There is a lasik eye center in Smithtown New York in Long Island that performs to the highest standards that you deserve as a patient. Dr. Sidney Martin started North Shore Eye Care in 1962 in Smithtown New York with the goal of providing the best in eye care and eye surgery to patients of Long Island. In the early years, Dr. Martin, a board certified eye doctor and eye surgeon, took care of patients with cataracts, glaucoma, macular degeneration, diabetes and diabetic retinopathy, dry eye and a host of other eye problems. Over the years, there was step wise additions of board certified lasik doctors and lasik surgeons, Dr. Lawrence Zweibel, Dr. Jeffrey Martin, and finally Dr. John Mauro joined the practice in 2009. Our group of excellent eye doctors and eye surgeons all strive to give the very best in laser vision correction and laser eye surgery.

When you have lasik at North Shore Eye Care, you have bladeless custom lasik or ilasik. This is the best and only way in our opinion to have lasik laser eye surgery. Our flaps, the first part of lasik, are done blade free every time with Intralase. This is the safest and most precise way to make a flap for lasik. We then use customvue with wavescan to create a truly customized laser vision correction procedure. The laser reads your visual system and creates a unique fingerprint of your vision. No two waveprints or wavemaps are the same. This is then lasered into the surface of the cornea with automatic tracking, automatic centering and iris registration, which exactly centers the laser vision correction. From the moment you walk through our doors and meet Dr. Mauro, Dr. Martin, or Dr. Zweibel, you will know that you arrived at the right place for eye care and eye surgery. Our eye center has a smart and courteous staff, kind and compassionate technicians and truly caring eye doctors.

In Long Island New York in Suffolk and Nassau Counties, we see patients from Cold Spring Harbor, huntington, commack, northport, greenlawn, deer park, centerport, dix hills, melville, lindenhurst, sayville, bay shore, babylon, plainview, bethpage, woodbury, syosset, manhasset, rockville center, jericho, westbury, old westbury, great neck, glen cove, smithtown, nesconset, saint james, kings park, farmingdale, farmingville, and many other towns.

North Shore Eye Care has been named a National Crystalens Center of Excellence by Bausch and Lomb. The board certified eye doctors and eye surgeons at North Shore Eye Care in Smithtown New York in Long Island are proud of this accomplishment and it further enhances our reputation in our Long Island Suffolk County community. Dr. Jeffrey Martin and Dr. Lawrence Zweibel have also been named "Top Doctors in the New York Metro Area by Castle connolly and our newest board certified cataract surgeon and lasik surgeon, Dr. John Mauro is thrilled to join such a well known group of eye doctors and eye surgeons. North Shore Eye Care has come a long way since the practice was founded by Dr. Sidney Martin in Smithtown New York in 1962. We have always had a committment to excellence and quality of care and if there is a new or better procedure, we are at the forefront of learning and teaching that technique. Dr. Jeff Martin teaches cataract surgery at the VA hospital in Northport and he is also an assistant clinical professor of ophthalmology at the State University of New York at Stony Brook. All of this translates to the best in care for our patients that need cataract surgery and laser vision correction.

Our cataract surgery is completed through a small incision. We do not use stitches, and eye patch or needles around the eye. Our patients stay in their own comfortable clothes and receive IV sedation to relax. We then use eye drops to numb the surface of the eye and cataract of cloudy lens is removed using phacoemulsification or computer controlled ultrasound. The intraocular implants or IOLs that we use are the best available and include accommodating and multifocal implants that allow a patient to see far and near without using glasses or contact lenses. We specialize in Crystalens and Toric implants and also use Rezoom, Restor, and Tecnis Multifocal.

In Long Island New York in Suffolk and Nassau Counties, we see patients from Centereach, Selden, Coram, Middle island, riverhead, ridge, stony brook, setauket, port jefferson, miller place, mount sinai, rocky point, shoreham, wading river, manorville, shirley, calverton, yaphank, mastic, moriches, patchogue, medford, bayport, bellport, brookhaven, eastport, westhampton, southampton, east hampton, sag harbor, hampton bays, quogue, jamesport, cutchogue, mattituck, montauk, southold, farmingville, farmingdale, smithtown, nesconset, saint james, kings park, and many other towns.

Lasers have been used in eye care and ophthalmology for many years, but there was a time when lasers were not available for eye pathology. Dr. Sidney Martin, the founder of North Shore Eye Care in Smithtown New YOrk in Long Island, remembers a time where diabetic patients and glaucoma patients did not have the availability of lasers to treat disease. There was a time when cataract patients could not have a simple Yag Laser Capsulotomy to remover posterior capsule opacity following cataract surgery. There are currently many lasers used in eye care by eye doctors and eye surgeons both diagnostically and for treatment. The excimer laser used in lasik, ilasik, and laser vision correction first came to Long Island in 1996. This laser was uniquely suited to laser vision correction laser eye surgery because the laser pulse was precise and caused very little collateral damage or damage to eye tissues next to the point that it was aimed to correct vision. Several years laser, Intralase, a femtosecond laser, was fda approved to make flaps in ilasik or bladeless custom lasik. This is when lasik really became as good as it is today. Today, our board certified lasik surgeons and lasik doctors, Dr. Jeffrey Martin, Dr. Lawrence Zweibel and Dr. John Mauro, do only bladeless custom lasik with Intralase to make the most precise and safest flaps and Visx Customvue to create a completely customized laser vision correction experience. The customvue platform uses a waveprint or wavemap created to a wavescan and this laser eye surgery automatically centers and tracks and uses iris registration to give the very best result possible. The committment to excellence in eye care has helped Dr. Martin and Dr. Zweibel to be elected "Top Doctors: New York Metro Area" by Castle Connolly ltd. Castle Connolly is a medical research company that finds the top ten percent of eye doctors and eye surgeons in each region by specialty.

In Long Island New York in Suffolk and Nassau Counties, we see patients from Smithtown, Nesconset, Saint James, Kings Park, islip, islandia, hauppauge, lake grove, stony brook, commack, setauket, port jefferson, bohemia, ronkonkoma, holtsville, holbrook, sayville, patchogue, medford, farmingdale, farmingville, new york city, brooklyn, queens, and many other towns.

Dr. Sidney Martin founded North Shore Eye Care in Smithtown New York in Suffolk County of Long Island in 1960. The eye care practice was a general eye care practice and Dr. Martin took care of eye patients with glaucoma, cataract, diabetes, macular degeneration, dry eye and later laser eye surgery. When Dr. Sidney Martin first started doing cataract surgery, the procedure was much more primitive. A cataract doctor or cataract surgeon would make a large incision in the eye and deliver the lens as one piece. The cataract operation could only be done under general anesthesia and was quite risky including severe visual complications like hemorrhage, blindness, infection and other eye problems like high astigmatism. There were not good stitches that were small enough so a patient had to lie still in bed for a week to make sure that the cataract incision would heal without the contents of the eye extruding. There were no intraocular implants or IOLs like today so any cataract patient had to wear super thick glasses and continue living with the distortion of such strong aphakic glasses. Suffice it to say that cataract surgery was not popular and was used more as a last result when blindness was the only other option.

Today at North Shore Eye Care, our three board certified eye surgeons, Dr. Jeffrey martin, dr. larry zweibel, and Dr. John Mauro, perform cataract surgery through a small incision without using injections around the eye, stitches, or even an eye patch. The incision is 2.5 millimeters and IV sedation and numbing eye drops are all that are necessary. We use the best in IOL technology including multifocal and accommodating lenses such as restor, rezoom, tecnis multifocal, and crystalens. Many of our patients do not use glasses for any tasks, near or far after cataract surgery.

In Long Island New York in suffolk and Nassau counties, we see patients from smithtown, nesconset, saint james, kings park, commack, northport, centerport, huntington, cold spring harbor, deer park, dix hills, melville, greenlawn, bay shore, babylon, lindenhurst, massapequa, sayville, islip, plainview, woodbury, syosset, bethpage, new york city, brooklyn, queens, and many other towns.

Laser vision correction has come a long way over the past ten years and it can be confusing to the consumer what procedure is best for them. When is comes to lasik, the board certified lasik doctors and lasik surgeons at North Shore Eye Care in Smithtown New York, Dr. Jeffrey Martin, Dr. Larry Zweibel and Dr. John Mauro, to only the best and safest laser eye surgery lasik procedures. This means that ilasik bladeless custom lasik is the only way they do lasik. In ilasik, we use a blade-free laser called Intralase to make a safe and precise flap in the superficial layers of the cornea. Intralase replaced the blade microkeratome at Dr. Martin's office 5 years ago and they never looked back. The laser vision correction part of the procedure is done with Visx Customvue which uses wavescan to make a wavemap or waveprint for the best fit and most customized laser vision correction procedure possible. The laser automatically centers and automatically tracks for the best result. We also use iris registration on every case possible for the best centration and accuracy. At North Shore Eye Care, you will always get the best and most state of the art lasik procedure available anywhere.

If our patients desire, they can get zero percent financing for two years to help pay for the lasik procedure. Care Credit has amazing financing plans that many of our patients benefit from. Zero percent financing has been a huge benefit for our practice and we are happy to offer it. From the moment you walk through our doors, you will know that you have arrived at the right lasik practice. You will be treated with professionalism and courtesy and the eye doctors and eye surgeons take the time to answer all of your questions.

In long Island New yOrk in nassau and suffolk counties, we see patients from centereach, selden, coram, middle island, ridge, riverhead, calverton, shirley, mastic, moriches, manorville, patchogue, medford, brookhaven, bayport, bellport, farmingdale, farmingville, stony brook, setauket, port jefferson, shoreham, wading river, miller place mount sinai, rocky point, eastport, westhampton, quogue, east hampton, hampton bays, southampton, sag harbor, jamesport, cutchogue, mattituck, southold, montauk, and many other towns, including smithtown, nesconset, saint james, kings park.

North Shore eye Care is one of the most progressive eye care and cataract surgery eye practices in Long island new York. North Shore Eye Care located in Smithtown New York in Suffolk county has some of the most state of the art technology and the best board certified eye doctors and eye surgeons. Dr. Jeffrey Martin and Dr. Larry Zweibel have been featured in Top Doctors in the New York Metro Area by Castle Connolly for the last several years and North Shore Eye Care has been named as a National Crystalens Center of Excellence by Bausch and Lomb. Our board certified eye surgeons, Dr. Martin, Dr. Zweibel and Dr. John Mauro, use small incisions and rarely use needles behind the eye, stitches or even an eye patch. There cataract procedure lasts a few minutes and our patients get to stay in their own clothes and go home the very same day within a few hours. We use IV sedation to relax our patients and numbing eye drops so that the patient remains comfortable through the cataract surgery. When a cataract or cloudy lens of the eye is removed, we replace it with an intraocular lens or IOL. There are several types of IOLs including premium IOLs such as accommodating lenses like Crystalens and multifocal lenses like Restor, Rezoom, and Tecnis Multifocal. These premium implants help to reduce or eliminate dependence on glasses or contact lenses and allow our patients to see far and near without glasses or contact lenses. We also use many Acrysof Toric implants that reduce or eliminate astigmatism in patients that desire glasses free vision. With the creation of these premium implants, a laser vision correction enhancement is sometimes necessary. If necessary, we do that at no charge to our patients.

In Long Island New York in Suffolk and Nassau Counties, we see patients from smithtown, nesconset, saint james, kings park, fort salonga, bohemia, ronkonkoma, lake grove, hauppauge, holtsville, holbrook, islandia, islip, bay shore, babylon, lindenhurst, sayville, commack, stony brook, setauket, and many other towns.

The board certified eye doctors and eye surgeons know what is most important in lasik, cataract surgery and other surface eye operations. In lasik, our lasik surgeons, Dr. Jeff Martin, Dr. Larry Zweibel and Dr. John Mauro make a flap in the superficial layers of the cornea. This flap is made using a blade-free laser called Intralase. Intralase is a laser that makes the thinnest, most precise and safest flap possible as the first step of the ilasik laser eye surgery procedure. Bladeless custom lasik then is follow by a customvue correction by Visx that uses a wavescan to create a waveprint or wavemap. This waveprint is like your fingerprint. It is a fingerprint of your visual system and no two are unique. This custom lasik surgery automatically tracks and automatically centers as well as uses iris registration for the best in centration and accuracy. Ilasik or bladeless custom lasik is also more gentle on the surface of the eye which is very important when it comes to your final visual result and speed of recovery. This is why Dr. Martin and Dr. Zweibel have been voted "Top Doctors: New York Metro Area for the past several years.

The ocular surface must be optimized for laser vision correction. This means that blepharitis and dry eye must be treated. Blepharitis describes an eye lid inflammatory condition that can cause red eye, foreign body sensation as well as blurred vision. Dry eye can cause the same symptoms and the vision becomes worse and less stable as the day goes on. We have many modalities to treat these problems with things as easy as making your environment more hypoallergenic and using warm soaks and lid scrubs. For more difficult ocular surface problems, we often use antibiotics orally and topically as well as steroids topically and restasis.

In long island new york in suffolk and nassau county, we see patients from huntington, cold spring harbor, commack, northport, centerport, greenlawn, dix hills, melville, deer park, bay shore, babylon, massapequa, lindenhurst, sayville, bethpage, plainview, woodbury, syosset, smithtown, nesconset, saint james, and kings park.

Cataract surgery is a very common eye operation in today's society. People are living longer and if you live long enough, the lens of the begins to cloud over and cause blurred vision and glare. Cataract surgery is recommended when the vision gets to the point that it is significantly decreasing ones vision and causing interference in a patient's quality of life. At North Shore Eye Care in Smithtown New York in Long Island, our board certified eye doctors and eye surgeons, Dr. Jeff Martin, Dr. Larry Zweibel and Dr. John Mauro, perform cataract surgery in a few minutes and do not routinely use stitches, an eye patch, or needles around the eye. We use IV sedation and numbing eye drops and through a small incision, we remove the cloudy lens or cataract using computer controlled ultrasound or phacoemulsification. We then replace the cataract with an intraocular lens implant or IOL. Dr. Martin, Dr. Zweibel and Dr. Mauro specialize in premium IOLS including accommdating lenses such as Crystalens and Multifocal implants such as Restor, Rezoom and Tecnis Multifocal. We also use many toric intraocular implants that reduce or eliminate astigmatism. North Shore Eye Care has been deemed a National Crystalens Center of Excellence and Dr. Martin and Dr. Zweibel have been named "Top Doctors in the New York Metro Area" for years.

The ocular surface should be optimized for cataract surgery to make the cataract surgery go smooth as possible. Many of our cataract patients have dry eye and blepharitis. Bleharitis is an inflammation of the eye lid margin that causes a red eye, red lids, foreign body sensation and irritation. Dry eye is a process in that the ocular surface becomes dry due to age, hormonal changes, medications or from blepahritis. The cataract doctors and cataract surgeons at North Shore Eye Care in Smithtown New York evaluate and treat these eye problems prior to cataract surgery if necessary.

In Long Island New York in Suffolk and Nassau County, we see patients from centereach, selden, coram, middle island, riverhead, ridge, stony brook, setauket, port jefferson, miller place, mount sinai, rocky point, shoreham, wading river, patchogue, medford, bayport, bellport, brookhaven, mastic, moriches, yaphank, manorville, calverton, eastport, westhampton, quogue, east hampton, sag harbor, southampton, hampton bays, jamesport, cutchogue, mattituck, southold, smithtown, nesconset, saint james, kings park and many other towns.

The decision to have ilasik bladeless custom lasik is a very important one. As a patient, you have to be comfortable with the lasik eye care practice you choose, you have to be comfortable with the technology and procedure, you have to be comfortable with eye doctor. At North Shore Eye Care in Smithtown New York in Long Island, we strive to create the best experience possible in lasik laser eye surgery. Our board certified eye doctors and eye surgeons, Dr. Jeffrey Martin, Dr. Larry Zweibel and Dr. John Mauro, are very experienced in the science and art of laser vision correction and have been performing lasik laser eye surgery for over 10 years. Dr. Martin and Dr. Zweibel have been included in "Top Doctors: New York Metro Area" by Castle Connolly for the last several years for their commitment to excellence in eye care and eye surgery. Our lasik doctors see you from the first visit to our Long island New York eye care practice for a free lasik consultation. Our lasik surgeons answer all of your questions, discuss the lasik procedure with you and make sure that you are completely comfortable with every aspect of the laser vision correction procedure. On that free lasik consultation, we perform corneal topography, corneal pachymetry, and a complete eye exam so that we can advise you correctly. Some patients with thin corneas, irregular corneas, dry eyes, or very high prescriptions are better candidates for advanced surface ablation such as prk, epilasik, or lasek. This way, more untouched cornea is preserved to preserve corneal strength.

From the moment you call North Shore Eye Care and come through our doors, you will find that the entire staff is kind and courteous. Every employee is warm and professional and helps you through your decision making process.

In long island new york in suffolk and nassau counties, we see patients from smithtown, nesconset, saint james, kings park, islip, islandia, hauppauge, lake grove, bohemia, ronkonkoma, holtsville, holbrook, sayville, commack, stony brook, setauket, centereach, patchogue, medford, farmingdale, farmingville, nissequogue, head of the harbor, old field, sound beach, belle terre, port jefferson, and many other towns.

Phacoemulsification is the modern way to proceed in cataract surgery. Years ago, cataract or cloudy lenses were removed through a larger incision where the entire cloudy lens was removed as one piece and then the incision would be sutured with roughly 10 stitches. As the cataract surgery procedure evolved under the ideas of Dr. Charles Kelman of Manhattan, eye doctors and eye surgeons started to explore ultrasound as a way to break up the cataract while still in the eye so that a smaller incision could be used. The benefit of a small incision is that it heals faster with less astigmatism or corneal irregularity and possibly cuts down the possibility of infection. The current "phaco" handpiece allow cataract surgeons and cataract doctors to do the entire cataract surgery through an incision that is roughly 2.5 millimeters and this incision does not need to be stitched due to the technique of making the incision as well as the small size of the incision. The phaco handpiece has computer controlled ultrasound that breaks up the cataract. It also has balanced irrigation and aspiration. This balance allows the eye surgeon to add fluid to the eye as the cataract is sucked out and therefore keep the integrity of the eye in place. Phacoemulsification also allows for delivery of a soft intraocular lens or IOL into the eye through the same small incision and this IOL restores vision without significant addition of astigmatism and quick healing and recovery. Current cataract surgery at North Shore Eye Care takes a few minutes and we rarely use stitches, an eye patch or an injection around the eye. We use IV sedation and numbing eye drops and our patients stay in their own comfortable clothes and return home the very same day. North Shore Eye Care has been named a National Crystalens Center of Excellence by Bausch and Lomb and our board certified cataract surgeons, Dr. Jeffrey Martin, Dr. Lawrence Zweibel and Dr. John Mauro are proud to continue the tradition of excellence at our Smithtown New York Long Island eye care practice.

In Long island New york, we see patients from cold spring harbor, huntington, commack, northport, centerport, greenlawn, dix hills, deer park, melville, bay shore, babylon, massapequa, lindenhurst, smithtown, nesconset, saint james, ikings park, fort salonga, bethpage, plainview, woodbury , syosset, manhasset, jericho, brookville, rockville center, new york city, queens, brooklyn and many other towns.

Laser vision correction has been very popular over the last 10 years. The laser eye surgery procedure has advanced in technology and safety and has made bladeless custom lasik a very sought after vision correction procedure at North Shore Eye Care in Smithtown New York in Long island. When is comes to laser vision correction, many patients ask our board certified lasik doctors and lasik surgeons, Dr. Jeffrey Martin, Dr. Larry Zweibel and Dr. John Mauro, which laser eye surgery is best for them. This questioned is answered at our Suffolk County Long Island office in a free lasik evaluation that our eye doctors and eye surgeon give rountinely. In a lasik evaluation, we measure your eye prescription, do a general eye exam, do corneal topography and corneal pachymetry. This gives us information on corneal shape and corneal thickness as well as eye health that helps to determine if you are a good candidate or not. If your corneal thickness and shape are perfect, we usually recommend bladeless custom lasik or ilasik. This procedure uses blade free Intralase to make the thinnest, most precise and safest flap possible. We then use Visx Customvue with waveprint or wavemap to do a truly customized ablation for each patient. This type of laser eye surgery automatically tracks and automatically centers as well as uses iris registration. For those patients with a thin cornea, irregular cornea, high prescription or even a moderately dry eye, we often recomment custom surface ablation which means, prk, epilasik, or lasek. With these laser eye surgery procedures, the final visual result is the same, but healing takes a few days longer and discomfort can certainly last longer. For their efforts, Dr. Jeff Martin and Dr. Larry Zweibel have been voted Top Doctors in the New York Metro Area by Castle Connolly ltd.

In long island in suffolk and nassau counties, we see patients from centereach, selden, coram, middle island, riverhead, ridge, miller place, mount sinai, rocky point, stony brook, setauket, port jefferson, patchogue, medford, brookhaven, bayport, bellport, mastic, moriches, shirley, manorville, yaphank, calverton, eastport, westhampton, quogue, east hampton, southampton, hampton bays, sag harbor, jamesort, cutchogue, mattituck, southold, new york city, smithtown, nesconset, saint james, kings park, sound beach, old field, belle terre, sound beach, and many other towns.

Cataract surgery has become so common in recent times as the population ages. As we get older, the lens of our eyes starts to change and become more dense and eventually become opacified or cloudy. Cataracts happen to every person if they live long enough and with some, cataracts can happen earlier or even appear at birth, but less commonly. The appropriate time to perform cataract surgery and fix a cataract is when the cataract is causing enough blurred vision, glare, or visual difficulty that it negatively affects a patients quality of life. There is no single answer for every patient and we believe that in most cases, the eye doctor or eye surgeon does not tell you when its time... you tell them. Our board certified cataract doctors and cataract surgeons, Dr. Jeffrey Martin, Dr. Larry Zweibel and Dr. John Mauro are experts in cataract surgery and perform cataract surgery in the most modern ways including cataract surgery using no stitiches, eye patch or injection around the eyes. Our patients receive IV sedation to relax and then eye drops to numb the surface of the eye before the eye surgery.

Some cataracts are significantly more difficult to remove than others. It makes sense when you think about it that some people have stronger tissues and better protoplasm, but cataract surgery has been so downplayed on the risk side that people sometimes do not even think of it as surgery. Although cataract surgery usually goes perfectly, every cataract case does have the risk of bleeding, infection, blindness and even the loss of the eye. Those terrible complications are very rare with todays technology, but they do happen. Some patients have weak attachments from the wall of the eye to the lens or even with a very small eye with little room to work, cataract surgery can become tricky. Dr. Martin, Dr. Zweibel and Dr. Mauro are well trained to anticipate these problems and that is why Dr. Martin and Dr. Zweibel have been voted "Top Doctors: New York Metro Area" by Castle connolly for the last few years as voted by their peers. North Shore eye Care has also been deemed a National Crystalens Center of Excellence by Bausch and Lomb.

In Long Island New York in suffolk and nassau counties, we see patients from smithtown, nesconset, saint james, kings park, islip, islandia, hauppauge, lake grove, holbrook, ronkonkoma, holtsville, bohemia, sayville, commack, stony brook, setauket, patchogue, medford, bay shore, babylon, nissequogue, head of the harbor, belle terre, old field, poqoutt, sound beach, centereach, farmingdale, farmingville, new york city, queens, brooklyn, and many other towns.

Am I a good candidate for lasik? The board certified lasik doctors and lasik surgeons at North Shore Eye Care in Smithtown New York in Long Island's Suffolk County are asked this question every day. So Dr. Jeffrey Martin wanted to answer this very important question and describe what goes into the decision making process. At North Shore Eye, our three lasik surgeons, Dr. Jeff Martin, Dr. Larry Zweibel and Dr. John Mauro all offer free lasik consultations so that our patients can be confident and comfortable with a decision to have bladeless custom lasik or ilasik before they have to pay anything. In a laser vision correction evaluation, we do several sophisticated measurements. We examine your eye and get an estimate of your prescription. We get corneal topography which give the eye doctor a detailed map of your cornea. We also measure the corneal thickness to determine the amount of cornea that would be left behind untouched following the laser eye surgery procedure. By analyzing your corneal shape, thickness, and eye examination, we can tell you that day what your options are and explain our decision making process. You will meet with our surgical coordinator to discuss the finances so that you leave our office after that first visit completely informed and ready to proceed.

Dr. Jeff Martin and Dr. Larry Zweibel have been voted "Top Doctors: New York Metro Area" by Castle Connolly ltd for the last few years. Castle Connolly is a medical research company that finds the top ten percent of doctors including eye doctors and eye surgeons by region and by specialty. Doctors are voted in to this text by their peers, other doctors. We are proud to have been included for the last few years because often doctors know who of their peers are the best.

In Long Island New York in Suffolk and Nassau County, we see patients from Smithtown, nesconset, saint james, kings park, fort salonga, cold spring harbor, huntington, commack, northport, greenlawn, centerport, dix hills, melville, deer park, bay shore, babylon, lindenhurst, massapequa, sayville, plainview, syosset, woodbury, bethpage, manhasset, jericho, brookville, old brookville, bayville, rockville center, manhasset, new york city, queens, brooklyn, and many other towns.

When is your cataract ready for cataract surgery. Here in our Smithtown New York eye care practice in Suffolk County of Long Island, we are frequently asked that question from our patients and often on second opinions. Our board certified eye doctors and eye surgeons, Dr. Jeffrey Martin and Dr. Larry Zweibel are pleased to answer this questions along with all of your questions as your cataracts become worse. The simple answer is that you need cataract surgery when the cataract or cloudy lens in your eye has become a problem for your vision and daily function. As a cataract gets worse, your vision will become worse as well with blurred vision, glare at night and glare with oncoming headlights at night. These are the things that make people decide to have cataract surgery.
North Shore Eye Care has been designated a National Crystalens Center of Excellence by Bausch and Lomb and Dr. Martin as well as Dr. Zweibel have been named "Top Doctors: New York Metro Area" by Castle connolly ltd for the last several years. These awards further highlight the committment to excellence that exists at North Shore Eye Care by our cataract doctors and cataract surgeons, Dr. Jeff Martin, Dr. Larry Zweibel and Dr. John Mauro.

In cataract surgery, the cloudy lens of the eye is removed through a small incision using gentle computer controlled ultrasound or phacoemulsification. We then insert an intraocular lens or IOL to restore vision. In our cataract surgery, we rarely use injections, stitches, or even an eye patch. Our patients stay in their own comfortable clothes and return to their home the very same day. It is this expert cataract treatment that has earned North Shore Eye Care such praise in our surrouding areas and have helped up to help thousands of patients with visually debilitating cataracts.

In Long island new york in suffolk and nassau county, we see patients from centereach, selden, coram, middle island, riverhead, ridge, stony brook, setauket, port jefferson, miller place, mount sinai, rocky point, shoreham, wading river, patchogue, medford, farmingville, brookhaven, bellport, bayport, mastic, moriches, shirley, manorville, calverton, eastport, westhampton, east hampton, sag harbor, southampton, hampton bays, quogue, jamesport, cutchogue, mattituck, southold, smithtown, nesconset, saint james, kings park, and many other towns.

When is comes to laser vision correction, some people are better suited for bladeless custom lasik or ilasik and some are better suited for advanced surface ablation, called prk, epilasik, or lasek. This all sounds confusing, but Dr. Jeffrey Martin, one of the board certified lasik doctors and lasik surgeons along with Dr. Larry Zweibel and Dr. John Mauro, will try to clear this up. At their Long island New York practice in Smithtown which is in Suffolk County, our board certified eye doctors and eye surgeons perform many hundred lasik and advanced surface ablation laser eye surgery procedures each year. Everyone wants lasik mainly because the healing time is quick and painless, but not everyone should have lasik or ilasik. In lasik, we make a bladeless flap with Intralase and then do a Customvue lasik correction that automatically centers and automatically tracks as well as uses iris registration. About 70 % of the patients in our practice can have lasik. For those patients with a cornea that is thin, an irregular cornea or sometimes just a high prescription in relation to the corneal thickness, advanced surface ablation can be the more prudent choice. This is why. In surface PRK, we do not go as deep into the cornea leaving more untouched cornea behind. With lasik, we go the depth of the flap which is typically about 100 microns and then the depth of the laser vision correction ablation. We all need a certain amount of untouch cornea to live the rest of our lives with good vision. Some of us feel that that thickness is 300 or 350 microns depending on the cornea. So our lasik doctors and surgeons look at all of these things in deciding which procedure is right for you. The thing about PRK is that the healing is longer with typically 3 to 4 days of significant discomfort, tearing, and light sensitivity. But in the end, surface laser vision correction equals lasik as far as final vision goes. PRK will take longer to get to the clearest vision, but usually within 4 days, even our surface laser eye surgery patients are driving.

In Long Island New York in Suffolk and Nassau county, our patients come from smithtown, nesconset, saint james, kings park, fort salonga, nisseuqogue, head of the harbor, poquott, belle terre, islip, islandia, hauppauge, lake grove, holbrook, holtsville, ronkonkoma, bohemia, sayville, commack, stony brook, setauket, bay shore, babylon, lindenhurst, new york city, queens, brooklyn and many other towns.

Cataract surgery is quite an outpatient surgery restoring vision to over 1 million patients each year. Here in Long Island New York in Suffolk County, North Shore Eye Care has lead the eye care field in cataract surgery for many years. Our board certified eye doctors and eye surgeons take pride in their expertise and committment to excellence. Dr. Jeffrey Martin, Dr. Lawrence Zweibel and Dr. John Mauro perform many cataract operations each year. Our patients stay in their own clothes and return home the very same day. We use IV sedation and numbing eye drops to make the eye comfortable. We rarely use injections around the eye and almost never use stitches or even an eye patch. Through a small incision, the cataract or cloudy lens is removed using computer controlled ultrasound and an intraocular lens implant is used to restore vision. We use the most advanced IOLs available in the world including the acommodating lens, Crystalens as well as multifocal lenses, restor, rezoom, and tecnis multifocal. We are also experts with the Alcon Acrysof Toric lens that reduces or eliminates astigmatism. Dr. Martin and Dr. Zweibel have been recognized as Top Doctors in the New York Metro Area by Castle Connolly ltd and North Shore Eye Care has been named a Crystalens National Center of Excellence. These awards further cement the committment to excellence that is obvious as soon as you walk through our doors at North Shore Eye.

With these premium intraocular lens implants, precision is of the utmost importance. We use the best technology available to give you the best result including corneal topography and IOL Master. If a small adjustment is needed for best result, our board certified cataract surgeons are lasik experts as well and perform bladeless custom lasik or ilasik at no charge when needed.

In Long Island in Nassau and Suffolk Counties, we see patients from smithtown, nesconset, saint james, kings park, fort salonga, cold spring harbor, huntington, commack, northport, centerport, greenlawn, dix hills, melville, bay shore, babylon, lindenhurst, sayville, woodbury, syosset, bethpage, plainview, rockville center, manhasset, new york city, queens, brooklyn, and many other towns.

The board certified eye doctors and eye surgeons at North Shore Eye Care in Smithtown New York in Long island are often asked whether lasik laser vision correction is worth the cost. The patient may be a successful contact lens wearer. They have no medical reason to have lasik laser eye surgery, but would rather have the convenience of not having to bother with glasses and contact lenses. Dr. Jeff Martin and Dr. Larry Zweibel, both board certified and "Top Doctors in the New York Metro Area" by Castle Connolly, field these questions on a regular basis. We feel that when you do the math in regard to glasses and contact lens cost, over time ilasik or bladeless custom lasik will in fact pay for itself. Especially with no interest financing for two years that is offered from North Shore Eye Care, the finances of having lasik have become easier.

In our Smithtown New York office, our lasik doctors, Dr. Martin, Dr. Zweibel and Dr. John Mauro are happy to meet with our lasik candidates at no cost to examine your eyes and discuss your options. In our free evaluation, we do an eye examination, corneal topography or corneal mapping and a corneal thickness measurement called pachymetry. By doing these tests, our eye doctors and eye surgeons can tell whether lasik might be the way or possibly advanced surface ablation such as prk, epilasik or lasek. Depending on your prescription, corneal thickness and corneal regularity, we have over 10 years of experience in knowing what suits each individual patient the best. Of note, at North Shore Eye Care, you see your eye surgeon and important decisions such as this are not delegated to support staff. We feel that this is important because decisions regarding surgical plan are often made at the evaluation.

In Long Island new york in Suffolk and Nassau County, we see patients from smithtown, nesconset, saint james, kings park, centereach, selden, coram, middle island, riverhead, ridge, miller place, rocky point, mount sinai, stony brook, setauket, port jefferson, shoreham, wading river, patchogue, medford, brookhaven, bellport, bayport, yaphank, shirley, mastic, moriches, eastport, quogue, manorville, calverton, westhampton, east hampton, hampton bays, southampton, montauk, sag harbor, jamesport, cutchogue, mattituck, southold, greenport, new york city, queens, brooklyn, and many other towns.

Cataract surgery is a successful out patient procedure that many people each year undergo. North Shore eye care was founded in 1960 by Dr. Sidney Martin, a board certified eye doctor and eye surgeon. The practice has been at the forefront of eye care since then and we have taken care of patients with glaucoma, cataract, diabetes, macular degeneration, dry eye, laser vision correction and other eye problems and eye conditions. Our current eye surgeons, Dr. Jeffrey Martin, Dr. Larry Zweibel and Dr. John Mauro specialize in advanced cataract surgery in our Smithtown new York location. Cataract surgery is performed without using injections, stitches, or even an eye patch. Our patients stay in their own clothes, receive IV sedation for relaxation, and we use eye drops to numb the surface of the eye. We then remove the cataract using gentle computer controlled ultrasound or phacoemulsification and replace the cloudy lens or cataract with an intraocular implant or IOL in our Long island Suffolk County surgery center.

When choosing an implant to use during your cataract surgery, many people opt for the standard distance lens that allows for distance vision only and these patients wear glasses for reading. For those patients that would like to be less dependent on glasses, we offer the Crystalens and Crystalens HD, which are accommodating implants and allow for far and near. We also use multifocal implants that use a ring system for simultaneous near and far without glasses. The Acrysof Toric implant corrects for astigmatism by correcting for it in the implant. These premium implants do add cost to the procedure, but you end up with improved vision and less dependence on glasses and contact lenses.

In Long Island New York in Suffolk and Nassau Counties, we see patients from smithtown, nesconset, saint james, kings park, fort salonga, nissequogue, head of the harbor, poquott, old field, belle terre, sound beach, islip, islandia, hauppague, lake grove, ronkonkoma, bohemia, holtsville, holbrook, sayville, commack, bay shore, babylon, farmingdale, farmingville, new york city, queens, brooklyn, manhasset, brookville, jericho, syosset, woodbury, and many other towns.

Laser vision correction has become very popular over the past 15 years. The technology of laser eye surgery has improved steadily during that time and the board certified lasik doctors and lasik surgeons at North Shore eye care in Smithtown New York in Long island have been a the lead when it comes to laser vision correction innovation. As a matter of fact, Dr. Jeff Martin, Dr. Larry Zweibel and Dr. John Mauro only do the very best lasik procedures. All of our laser eye surgery cases are bladeless custom lasik or ilasik. Ilasik is the most advanced laser vision correction procedure. Every flap that is made in our practice is done with Intralase, a laser system that makes the most precise and safest flaps possible. We couple the blade free flap with Visx Customvue which makes a custom fingerprint of your vision called a waveprint or wavemap. This custom information is directly loaded into the laser and then used to direct the laser eye surgery treatment. It automatically centers and automatically tracks and also uses iris registration to exactly center the laser vision correction ablation. By doing lasik in the most precise method possible, we have developed a wonderful reputation for the best results. For those patients that do not qualify for bladeless custom lasik, we also do advanced surface ablation such as prk, lasek, and epilasik. Patients with thin corneas, irregular corneas or high prescriptions can often benefit from surface ablation with the same wonderful results even if they can not have lasik. When you come to see our board certified eye doctors, we do a thorough evaluation including corneal topography, pachymetry and ocular assessment to let you know if you are a great candidate for laser vision correction. You will leave our office feeling confident about your decision.

In Long Island New York in Suffolk and Nassau County, we see patients from Cold Spring Harbor, huntington, commack, northport, centerport, greenlawn, dix hills, melville, bay shore, babylon, massapequa, lindenhurst, plainview, bethpage, woodbury, syosset, sayville, smithtown, nesconset, saint james, kings park, new york city, queens, brooklyn, and many other towns.

Cataract surgery is a procedure that is performed over 1 million times a year in the United States. The advances in cataract surgery have been many and the board certified cataract doctors at North Shore eye Care in Long Island New York have participated in all of them. Cataract surgery is an operation that lasts a few minutes in most cases and is completed without pain. Our patients stay in their own comfortable clothes and get IV sedation to relax and remain comfortable. We use eye drops to numb the surface of the eye because in most cases, injections behind the eye are not necessary. Dr. Jeff Martin, Dr. Larry Zweibel and Dr. John Mauro work through a small incision and use phacoemulsfication or gentle computer controlled ultrasound to remove the cloudy lens of the eye or cataract. We then place an intraocular lens or IOL in the eye to restore vision.

There are many types of intraocular lenses that aid in restoring vision. Our distance only implants are aspheric and give wonderful distance vision. Patients still need glasses for all near tasks. With accommodating implants like Crystalens, patients are able to see far and near because the lens moves in the eye slightly so that the focusing distance is extended. Multifocal implants give simultaneous near and far vision by looking through rings in the lens. There are circular rings that alternate far with near. These implants are wonderful, but there are contrast sensitivity issues due to the splitting of light and also, there can be rings and glare around lights at night. Alcon Acrysof Toric implant is an implant that reduces or eliminates astigmatism giving patients a clearer image after cataract surgery without glasses. All of the premium implants are designed to give the best vision without the use of glasses or contact lenses.

In Long Island New York in Suffolk and Nassau Counties, we see patients from Smithtown, nesconset, saint james, kings park, fort salonga, centereach, selden, coram, middle island, ridge, riverhead, miller place, mount sinai, rocky point, shoreham, wading river, stony brook, setauket, port jefferson, patchogue, medford, mastic, moriches, yaphank, brookhaven, bayport, bellport, manorville, shirley, calverton, jamesport, cutchogue, farmingville, mattituck, southold, eastport, quogue, westhampton, east hampton, southampton, sag harbor, hampton bays, new york city, queens, brooklyn, old field, head of the harbor, sound beach, poquott, belle terre and many other towns.

Laser vision correction in Long Island New York has been very popular for over 10 years and the board certified doctors at North Shore Eye Care have been at the forefront of laser eye surgery during this time. Our board certified lasik doctors, Dr. Jeff Martin, Dr. Larry Zweibel and Dr. John Mauro do their best to provide the best eye care possible in the tristate area. We do all bladefree lasik using Intralase and do all custom lasik using Customvue from Visx. Intralase makes the thinnest, most precise and safest flap as the first step in laser vision correction. This is followed by a Waveprint which is like a fingerprint of your visual system. The laser automatically centers and automatically tracks as well as uses iris registration for the most precise results. Iris registration is a process that the laser looks at the fine irregularties of each patients iris and exactly centers the laser vision correction on that unique iris configuration. This amounts to better results, less enhancements and better vision. Castle Connolly has named Dr. Martin and Dr. Zweibel "Top Doctors: New York Metro Area" for the last several years for their excellent care and compassionate professional nature.

When you walk through the doors of North Shore Eye Care in Suffolk County of New York in Long island, you will know that you have arrived at the right laser eye surgery practice. Everything that we do is clear and professional and you meet with your surgeon for a free evaluation on your first visit. All or our lasik surgeons, Dr. Jeff martin, Dr. Larry Zweibel and Dr. John Mauro have proven themselves to be at the top of their eye care field. Whether it is bladeless custom lasik ilasik, cataract, glaucoma, macular degeneration, diabetic retinopathy, or dry eye, we take the best care of your eyes.

In Suffolk and Nassau County of Long island we see patients from Smithtown, nesconset, saint james, kings park, fort salonga, bohemia, ronkonkoma, holtsville, holbrook, islandia, lake grove, islip, hauppauge, sayville, bay shore, babylon, commack, stony brook, setauket, dix hills, and many other towns.

Cataract surgery is quite an advanced eye surgery and the results are better than ever. It is important that you choose the right cataract doctor and cataract surgeon and at North Shore Eye Care, we have three board certified eye doctors. Our cataract specialists, Dr. Jeff Martin, Dr. Larry Zweibel and Dr. John Mauro perform the best techniques in cataract surgery and intraocular lens implantation. Dr. Martin and Dr. Zweibel have been included in Top Doctors in the new York Metro Area and North Shore eye has been named a Crystalens Center of Excellence Nationally. These awards further illustrate the dedication to excellence in eye care and eye surgery. Cataract surgery is performed through a small incision using IV sedation and numbing eye drops. No needles around the eyes, stitches or even an eye patch are necessary. The cataract is removed using gentle computer controlled ultrasound called phacoemulsification and then an implant or IOL is used to restore vision.

Dr. Martin, Dr. Zweibel and Dr. Mauro use the latest in implant technology to give our patients the best results in our Smithtown New York office in Long Island. We specialize in accommodating implants such as Crystalens 5.0 and Crystalens HD. We also use multifocal lenses like the restor, rezoom, and tecnis multifocal. These premium implants are designed to give our patients the best in vision far and near without the use of glasses and contact lenses. We also use Acrysof Toric implants to reduce or eliminate astigmatism. These newer implants require perfect surgical planning and perfect cataract surgery. Occasionally, our results are slightly off and in these cases, we perform bladeless custom lasik or ilasik to adjust the result at no charge to our patients. The commitment to this premium lens technology is obvious at North Shore eye Care where we never settle for a less than desirable result.

In Long Island in Suffolk and Nassau Counties, we see patients from Cold Spring Harbor, plainview, syosset, woodbury, bethpage, huntington, commack, northport, greenlawn, centerport, dix hills, melville, deer park, massapequa, lindenhurst, sayville, bay shore, babylon, smithtown, nesconset saint james, kings park, farmingdale, manhasset, new york city, queens, brooklyn and many other towns.

There are choices in laser vision correction laser eye surgery. Some places offer different lasik procedures for different prices and offer less advanced vision correction procedures for less money. The board certified eye doctors and eye surgeons at North Shore Eye Care in Smithtown New York do only the best lasik laser eye surgery procedures. Bladeless custom lasik ilasik is the only lasik procedure Dr. Jeff Martin, Dr. Larry Zweibel and Dr. John Mauro will do. The results are clearly better with ilasik and that is what we base our decision on. In lasik, all of our flaps are made with blade free Intralase because Intralase makes the safest and most precise flaps possible. All vision correction is Visx Customvue which uses automatic centering, automatic tracking as well as iris registration that exactly centers the laser vision correction procedure. In our Long Island New York office in Suffolk County, our patients appreciate that they know they are getting only the most advanced technology and a board certified lasik doctor and lasik surgeon to perform their lasik procedure. Dr. Martin, Dr. Zweibel and Dr. Mauro perform their own pre and postoperative exams as well as the surgery because we feel that the continuity of care is important to best results.

Dr. Martin and Dr. Zweibel have been included in "Top Doctors: New York Metro Area" by Castle Connolly for the last few years. This further hightlights their committment to excellence in eye care. The eye doctors at North Shore Eye Care in Smithtown new York have this committment to excellence in bladeless custom lasik as well as cataract surgery, glaucoma care, macular degeneration and diabetic retinopathy as well as all areas of eye care.

In Smithtown New york or in Suffolk and Nassau County of Long island, we see patients from centereach, selden, coram, middle island, ridge, riverhead, stony brook, setauket, port jefferson, miller place, mount sinai, rocky point, shoreham, wading river, yaphank, brookhaven, bay port, bell port, shirley, mastic, moriches, manorville, calverton, eastport, westhampton, southampton, east hampton, sag harbor, hampton bays, quogue, amagansett, montauk, jamesport, cutchogue, mattituck, southold, smithtown, patchogue, medford, farmingville, new york city, queens, brooklyn and many other towns.

Presbyopia is an aging process of the eye that causes people with good distance vision to need reading glasses in the 40s. People that are nearsighted or myopic tend to need bifocals or they need to take off their distance glasses to see near. Farsighted or hyperopic patients start needing reading glasses in their 40s and then need distance as well some years later. Everyone is affected by presbyopia and it can be quite an adjustment. The reason for presbyopia is that the natural lens of the eye becomes more dense as we age and when the internal muscles of focus or accommodation flex, they can no longer change the shape of the lens and therefore little focusing change results. At North Shore Eye Care , our board certified eye doctors and eye surgeons perform cataract surgery hundreds of times each year and a discussion about postoperative visual needs is imperative. Cataract surgery is quick and painless in most cases and our cataract surgeons, Dr. Jeff Martin, Dr. Larry Zweibel and Dr. John Mauro rarely use stitches, an eye patch, or needles in their cataract surgery.

When we replace the cloudy lens or cataract of the eye with an intraocular lens implant or IOL, there are choices that affect your degree of dependence on glasses after the cataract treatment. Accommodating implants like the crystalens allows for far and near vision without glasses or contact lenses. North Shore eye has been named a National Crystalens Center of Excellence by Bausch and Lomb. We also use multifocal implants like tecnis multifocal, rezoom, and restor that also allow for far and near vision without glasses or contact lenses. We enjoy using the Acrysof Toric implant that reduces or eliminates astigmatism. If a small adjustment is needed after surgery, we perform ilasik or bladeless custom lasik at no charge.

In Long Island New york in Suffolk and Nassau County, we see patients from Smithtown, nesconset, saint james, kings park, fort salonga, commack, islip, islandia, hauppauge, lake grove, bohemia, ronkonkoma, holtsville, holbrook, sayville, patchogue, stony brook, bay shore, babylon, nissequouge, head of the harbor, poquott, sound beach, old field, new york city, queens, brooklyn, and many other towns.

Presbyopia is a condition that happens to every person as we age. It describes the decreasing in ability to see far and near without assistance. People with no distance correction start to need glasses for reading and often pick up drug store glasses for near tasks. People that are nearsighted or myopic begin to move into bifocals or they have to remove their glasses for near. Farsighted people or hyperopic patients end up in bifocals as well, but start in the early 40s with the need for reading glasses and later need glasses for distance. Dr. Jeffrey Martin, Dr. Larry Zweibel and Dr. John Mauro, our board certified lasik doctors and lasik surgeons, have many patients that would like to get rid of glasses completely when they are older than 45. In these patients, it becomes more difficult to achieve this goal.

There are two ways to approach the presbyopic patient. At North Shore Eye Care in Smithtown new York in Long Island in Suffolk County, we offer straight distance vision which gives you the best distance vision especially when pertaining to driving a car or using distance vision. Dr. Martin, Dr. Zweibel and Dr. Mauro sometimes offer monovision. Monovision is when one eye is corrected for distance and one eye is corrected for close. This can be done at varying degrees and is sometimes easily accepted by patients. Other patients have significantly more difficulty with adjusting to using just one eye in the distance and one eye for close. Our eye doctors generally only approach monovision in patients that have had experience with monovision with contact lenses and have loved it. Doing laser eye surgery or bladeless custom lasik in a monovision pattern can be quite a bit more difficult to adjust.

In Long island new York in Nassau and suffolk county, we see patients from smithtown, nesconset saint james, kings park, commack, northport, centerport, greenlawn, huntington, plainview, cold spring harbor, syosset, woodbury, bethpage, dix hills, melville, deer park, bay shore, babylon, massapequa, lindenhurst, bay shore, babylon, islip, new york city, farmingdale, queens, brooklyn, and many other towns.

Cataract surgery is a very successful outpatient procedure that is performed safely over 1 million times each year in the United States. There is variability among surgeons, but modern cataract surgeons perform the cataract surgery procedure quickly and without pain. At North Shore Eye Care, our board certified eye doctors and eye surgeons complete a cataract operation in about 10 minutes on average and we do not use stitches, needles or a postoperative patch in most cases. Our patients stay in their own comfortable clothes and get IV sedation to relax. We then use eye drops to numb the eye and through a 2.5 millimeter incision, we use gentle ultrasound or phacoemulsification to remove the cloudy lens or cataract. We then replace the cloudy cataract lens with an intraocular implant or IOL which restores vision. Dr. Jeffrey Martin, Dr. Larry Zweibel, and Dr. John Mauro use the best in lens technology including the accommodating implants, Crystalens, and crystalens HD as well as multifocal implants like the Restor, Rezoom, and Tecnis Multifocal. We also have great success with the Acrysof Toric implant that reduces or eliminates astigmatism.

It is a matter of opinion whether cataract surgery should be performed in a hospital or a surgical center. We do most of our cases in a surgery center for the following reasons. Our surgical center is an eye surgery center so all of the staff are specifically trained in eye surgery. Everyone is very familiar with eye instruments and technique. At the hospital, some of the nurses are just not well versed in eye surgery. In the hospital, we are able to accomplish less in a day due to the fact that we have to work out of just one room, but at the surgical center, we work out of two rooms. There is also the question of hospitals having more virulent bacteria due to the close proximity to sick patients.

In Long Island New York in Suffolk and Nassau County, we see patients from Smithtown, nesconset, saint james, nesconset, centereach, selden, coram, middle island, ridge, riverhead, stony brook, setauket, port jefferson, shoreham, wading river, miller place mount sinai, rocky point, patchogue, medford, brookhaven, bayport, bellport, yaphank, mastic, moriches, shirley, manorville, calverton, eastport, westhampton, quogue, east hampton, sag harbor, southampton, hampton bays, cutchogue, jamesport, mattituck, southold, montauk, new york city, queens, brooklyn, hauppauge, old field, belle terre, poquott, head of the harbor, nissequogue, sound beach, and many other towns.

North Shore eye care was founded in 1960 by board certified eye doctor and eye surgeon, Dr. Sidney Martin in Smithtown New York in Suffolk county of Long island. Dr. Martin built a practice based on excellence in eye care and he took care of patients with glaucoma, cataracts, macular degeneration, dry eye, diabetic retinopathy and later laser eye surgery was introduced. Over the years, the practice grew and Dr. Larry Zweibel and then Dr. jeffrey Martin, both board certified eye surgeons and eye doctors, joined North Shore Eye Care. Dr. jeff martin and dr. larry zweibel have both been featured in Top doctors: new york Metro Area for the past few years and North Shore eye has been named a National Crystalens Center of Excellence by Bausch and Lomb. With these awards and recognition, Dr. Martin and Dr. Zweibel have achieved huge success in laser vision correction and laser eye surgery.

Our board certified lasik surgeons and lasik doctors do only bladeless custom lasik or ilasik. The reason for this is that ilasik gives the best results time and time again. With Intralase laser flaps, we deliver the safest and most precise flaps possible with the least chance of complication. With Visx Customvue Wavescan technology, we deliver truly customized laser vision correction with automatic eye tracking and automatic eye centering with iris registration. Iris registration is a process in that the laser uses your custom iris configuration to exactly center the laser eye surgery ablation. This leads to better results and less side effects. Dr. John Mauro recently joined North Shore Eye Care and he has been trained thoroughly in ilasik, bladeleless custom lasik.

In Suffolk and Nassau Counties of Long Island New York, we see patients from Smithtown, nesconset, saint james, kings park, huntington, commack, northport, greenlawn, centerport, dix hills, melville, bay shore, babylon, lindenhurst, farmingdale, woodbury, syosset, bethpage, cold spring harbor, deer park, massapequa, sayville, and many other towns.

Cataract surgery is an amazing and modern procedure that the board certified cataract experts at North Shore eye care in Smithtown New York in Suffolk County of Long Island are proud to provide. Cataract surgery takes a few minutes and Dr. Jeff Martin, Dr. Larry Zweibel and Dr. John Mauro perform cataract treatment through a small incision with no sutures, injections or even an eye patch. Our patients stay in their own comfortable clothes and return home the same day able to see through their eye immediately. We keep our patients comfortable using IV sedation and numbing eye drops. The cataract surgery is not painful or difficult to go through in most cases and our patients are our biggest advocates. Our cataract doctors and cataract surgeons explain every step and help our patients get through the process by keeping them informed comfortable and confident. Most of our patients have been sent to our eye care specialists by other doctors or other patients and that clearly makes our job easier because patients come in already knowing or our reputation. Dr. Jeff Martin and Dr. Larry Zweibel have been included in Top Doctors: new York Metro Area for the last few years and North Shore Eye Care has been named a National Crystalens Center of Excellence by Baush and Lomb.

So what is the greatest part about cataract surgery? That is very difficult to answer, but for the most part, I think that one of the greatest advances available to our cataract doctors is premium intraocular lenses or IOLs. Premium implants are designed to make patients less dependent on glasses and contact lenses for far and near. The accommodating implant, Crystalens, is a favorite of Dr. Martin and Dr. Zweibel and Multifocal implants like Tecnis Multifocal, Restor, and Rezoom are also available. We also offer Toric implants to reduce or eliminate astigmatism.

In Long Island New york in suffolk and Nassau Counties, we see patients from smithtown, nesconset, saint james, kings park, fort salonga, islip, islandia, holbrook, holtsville, hauppauge, lake grove, bohemia, ronkonkoma, sayville, patchogue, medford, nisseuqogue, head of the harbor, belle terre, old field, commack, bay shore, babylon, dix hills, new york city, queens, brooklyn, and many other towns.

With the advances in laser vision correction, our patients have had the dramatic benefits of current lasik bladeless custom lasik. In the old days, we used blades to make flaps in lasik and only had non-custom laser vision correction. Some patients ended up with night vision problems due to irregularities in their visual system or the way that their visual system interacted with the lasik laser eye surgery. With custom lasik, night vision problems have become rare in our Smithtown New York practice. Our board certified lasik doctors and lasik surgeons rarely hear a complaint of persistent night vision problems like glare and haloes. Our eye doctors feel that this is due to better flaps in lasik made by bladeless Intralase, which makes the safest and most precise flaps possible. The surface of the flap is a good as it can be. We then use Visx Customvue which makes a waveprint of your eye that is an exact visual fingerprint of your eye. The lasik correction automatically centers, automatically tracks and uses iris registration to exactly center the correction. This all ends up with much improved vision and fewer visual side effects.

Some lasik and ilasik practices offer patients different options for laser vision correction, but at North shore eye Care, Dr. Jeff Martin, Dr. Larry Zweibel and Dr. John Mauro do only the best procedure for each patient. Everything is custom and everything is bladeless. We do PRK, epilasik or lasek if our patients do not qualify for lasik, but these procedures are custom and bladeless as well with a final visual result that is equal to lasik.

We also offer zero percent financing for two years for those patients that would like the option to spread the payments out with incurring financing charges.

In long island new york in suffolk and nassau county, we see patients from stony brook, setauket, port jefferson, shoreham, wading river, miller place, mount sinai, rocky point, patchogue, medford, farmingville, bay port, sayville, brookhaven, bellport, mastic, moriches, shirley, yaphank, manorville, calverton, riverhead, ridge, eastport, westhampton, southampton, east hampton, hampton bays, quogue, sag harbor, cutchogue, mattituck, southhold, jamesport, smithtown, nesconset, saint james, kings park, and many other towns.

North Shore eye Care has been performing state of the art eye care and eye surgery since 1960 when Dr. Sidney Martin founded the eye care practice with his wife in Long island New York in Smithtown in Suffolk County. The complete eye care practice took care of patients with glaucoma, macular degeneration, cataracts, diabetes and diabetic retinopathy and later laser eye surgery and laser vision correction. As cataract surgery became better with time, North Shore Eye Care was a leader in the revolution of small incision cataract surgery, no stitch cataract surgery, no patch cataract surgery, and no injection cataract surgery. Dr. Jeff Martin and dr. Larry Zweibel, both board certified and included in Top Doctors: new york metro Area for the last several years, have been doing cataract surgery without sutures for many years and Dr. John Mauro, our newest associate, continues the trend of state of the art cataract surgery.

Cataract surgery is performed through a small incision, roughly 2.5 millimeters, and that is why stitches are not needed. Our patients stay in their own comfortable clothes, receive IV sedation to relax. The patient looks at a bright white light and does not feel any discomfort in most cases. The cataract surgery is done quickly and carefully and due to the small incision size, it seals without stitches. Because of that, our patients do not need to wear an eye patch and are able to see right away and start taking their important eye drops for infection and inflammation right away.

At North Shore eye, our board certified eye doctors and eye surgeons, use the latest technology in intraocular lens implants including accommodating implants like the crystalens which is designed to reduce or eliminate the need for glasses or contact lenses. As a matter of fact, we are a National Crystalens Center of Excellence. We also use multifocal implants at times like the restor, rezoom, and tecnis multifocal as well as the acrysof toric lens to reduce or eliminate astigmatism.

In Long Island New York in Suffolk and Nassau counties, we see patients from Cold Spring Harbor, plainview, bethpage, woodbury, syosset, massapequa, lindenhurst, sayville, deer park, dix hills, melville, northport, centerport, huntington, commack, greenlawn, smithtown, nesconset, saint james, kings park, fort salonga, new york city, queens, brooklyn, farmingdale, and many other towns.

When it comes to laser vision correction and laser eye surgery, there are many excellent questions that patients often need answered prior to having the ilasik bladeless custom lasik procedure done. Our board certified lasik doctors and lasik surgeons, Dr. Jeffrey Martin, Dr. Lawrence Zweibel, and Dr. John Mauro, feel strongly about answering all of your questions prior to the laser eye surgery date so that every patient feels comfortable and confident about ilasik. Dr. Martin and Dr. Zweibel have been selected in Top Doctors in the New York Metro Area for years due to their expertise and professionalism in the areas of cataract surgery and laser vision correction.

Dry eye is a very prevalent problem in our community and in the world. Although it seems simple, a dry ocular surface can be very difficult in regard to best corrected vision and comfort. Dry eye causes transiently blurred vision, red eye, eye pain, burning and stinging among other symptoms. Many post menopausal women have dry eye, but also, medications such as blood pressure medications and antidepressants can also cause dry eye. In the setting of dry eye, having lasik can make that dry eye worse, at least temporarily. We treat dry eye aggressively in the setting of eye surgery and lasik. With some of the treatments we have for dry eye, the recovery from bladeless custom lasik in our Smithtown New York Long Island region can be easier. Also, using the best in technique, such as all bladeless lasik with Intralase and Customvue smoother custom ablations seem to make dry eye symptoms less significant after the procedure. We also make smaller flaps these days which interrupts less of the ocular surface nerve supply causing less dry eye. With current techniques and treatment for dry eye, Dr. Jeff Martin, Dr. John Mauro and Dr. Larry Zweibel are able to do lasik vision correction on most people with comfortable and excellent results.

In Long Island New York in Suffolk and Nassau Counties, we see patients from Smithtown, nesconset, saint james, kings park, fort salonga, nissequogue, head of the harbor, poquott, old field, belle terre, sound beach, ashroken, cold spring harbor, hauppauge, lake grove, bohemia, ronkonkoma, holtsville, holbrook, islip, islandia, sayville, bay shore, babylon, patchogue, medford, farmingville, farmingdale, bayport, commack, dix hills, melville, new york city, brooklyn, queens, stony brook, and many other towns.

Cataract surgery has developed into one of the most successful procedures in the world. Cataract surgery is done by our board certified cataract doctors and cataract surgeons at North Shore Eye Care in Smithtown new York in Long Island in Suffolk County. In cataract surgery, our patients stay in their own comfortable clothes and get IV sedation to relax. Using only eye drops for anesthesia, we complete the cataract treatment in about 10 minutes and do not use stitches or an eye patch routinely. The cataract surgery is painless in most cases and patients are able to resume their usual activities quickly after surgery.

When cataract surgery is performed, we often here that patients feel some dry eye symptoms for a few months after surgery. Dr. Jeff Martin, Dr. Larry Zweibel and Dr. John Mauro understand that having any ocular surgery may temporarily make a dry eye situation slightly worse, but that the cataract surgery population tends to have a bit of dry eye to begin with. Dry eye is quite common in postmenopausal women, people on certain medications including blood pressure medications and antidepressants, and people of advancing age. Having cataract surgery makes these dry eye symptoms that may be not noticed prior to surgery become more apparent. After a bit of time, the symptoms usually resolve or resolve with minor treatment.

In cataract surgery, our board certified eye doctors use some of the most advanced implants available including accommodating implants like the crystalens, multifocal implants like restor, rezoom, and tecnis multifocal, and the astigmatism reducing acrysof toric implant. These premium implants aim at reducing the need for glasses for far, near, or both following cataract surgery.

In Long Island New York in Suffolk and Nassau County, we see patients from centereach, selden, coram , middle island, ridge, riverhead, stony brook, setauket, port jefferson, shoreham, wading river, patchogue, medford, brookhaven, bayport, bellport, mastic, moriches, shirley, manorville, calverton, eastport, quogue, westhampton, southampton, east hampton, sag harbor, hampton bays, old field, head of the harbor, belle terre, poquott, jamesport, cutchogue, mattituck, southold, miller place, mount sinai, rocky point, and many other towns.

Bladeless custom lasik or ilasik has come a long way in recent years. At North Shore Eye Care in Smithtown New York in Suffolk County of Long Island, the board certified lasik doctors and lasik surgeons have years of experience with the best laser vision correction procedures. Dr. Jeffrey Martin, Dr. Larry Zweibel and Dr. John Mauro perform laser eye surgery using Intralase, which is a blade free system that makes the thinnest and most precise flaps as the first step in lasik possible. We then use Customvue by Visx to make a wavescan or wavemap which is like a fingerprint of your visual system like a waveprint. Custom bladeless lasik uses automatic centering and automatic tracking as well as iris registration which is the way that the laser identifies the fine irregularties of your iris and uses those landmarks to center the lasik ablation perfectly. For those patients that do not qualify for lasik, we perform prk, advanced surface ablation, lasek, or epilasik in a custom laser vision correction for the same wonderful results.

At North Shore eye Care, the surgeons that perform your surgery are the ones that do the pre and postoperative follow-up. Dr. Martin, Dr. Zweibel and Dr. Mauro feel that this is important because it allows the proper examination and planning specific to each eye. We feel that if you are to have any type of surgery, the surgeon must examine you first to plan for any possible irregularities or complications unique to that particular patient. We have had great success with running or lasik laser vision correction practice that way and Dr. Martin as well as Dr. Zweibel have been included in Top Doctors: New York Metro Area for the last several years as published by Castle Connolly ltd.

In Long Island new york in Suffolk and Nassau Counties, we see patients from Cold Spring Harbor, huntington, commack, northport, greenlawn, dix hills, melville, plainview, bethpage, woodbury, syosset, manhasset, garden city, rockville center, bay shore, babylon, lindenhurst, massapequa, sayville, farmingdale, smithtown, nesconset, saint james, kings park, fort salonga and many other towns, such as new york city, centerport, queens and brooklyn.

Cataract Surgery is performed over 1 million times each year in the United States. Cataract surgery in the expert cataract doctor hands, has improved to become a same day surgery with our patients returning home the very same day without pain and being able to see right away. North Shore eye Care in Suffolk county of Long Island New York has three expert cataract doctors and cataract surgeons. Our board certified cataract doctors include Dr. Jeffrey martin and dr. Larry Zweibel as well as Dr. John Mauro. North Shore Eye Care has been deemed a Crystalens National Center of Excellence and Dr. Martin and Dr. Zweibel have been included in "Top Doctors: New York Metro Area" by Castle connolly for the last several years. We routinely perform cataract surgery without doing a needle injection, and therefore we do not need to use stitches or an eye patch. Patients ask how it is possible to perform a sensitive eye operation without using a local block to numb the ocular tissues. The answer is that with topical eye drops and IV sedation, almost every patient is completely comfortable without getting a needle injection. That way a patient can begin seeing through their operative eye immediately and start important antibiotic and anti-inflammatory medications right away and not wait until the patch comes off the next day.

When the cataract is removed, Dr. Martin, Dr. Zweibel and Dr. Mauro replace the cloudy lens of the eye with an intraocular lens implant or IOL. We specialize in the state of the art implants including accommodating implants like Crystalens and Multifocal implants like the Restor, Rezoom, and Tecnis Multifocal. We also use the Acrysof Toric implant to reduce or eliminate astigmatism. These premium implants are designed to reduce or eliminate the need for glasses for near, far or both.

In Long Island New York in Suffolk and Nassau County, we see patients from stony brook, setauket, port jefferson, shoreham, wading river, centereach, selden, coram, middle island, ridge, riverhead, calverton, manorville, shirley, mastic, moriches, brookhaven, bellport, bayport, sayville, mount sinai, miller place, rocky point, eastport, quogue, westhampton, southampton, east hampton, hampton bays, sag harbor, jamesport, cutchogue, mattituck, southold, patchogue, medford, farmingville, new york city, brooklyn, queens, and many other towns.

Up to 14 million Americans suffer from a disease called dry eye syndrome. People with dry eyes frequently experience burning and stinging of their eyes, their eyes often feel sticky, and their eyes are often red. Some people with dry eyes also have periods when their eyes get so watery that tears spill over their eyelids and run down their cheeks. Your eyes normally make small amounts of tears all day long.

Tears play several important roles in keeping your eyes healthy and your vision clear. Tears lubricate the eye’s surface, wash away debris, provide a smooth surface to help keep your vision clear, and also contain natural antibiotics that keep your eyes safe from germs that might cause infections. The layer of tears closest to the front surface of the eye is called the mucin layer. Its job is to smooth out the uneven spots on the eye surface. Next, a layer of aqueous tears covers the mucin layer. The aqueous layer is watery, and makes up the majority of the tear film. Its job is to lubricate the eye and keep it moist. The final layer of the tear film is an oily layer called the lipid layer. This is the outermost layer, and its job is to cover the aqueous layer and prevent it from evaporating. Each layer of the tear film is made by a different part of the eye. The mucin layer is made by the eye surface itself. The aqueous layer is made by a tear gland tucked under the upper eyelid. And the lipid layer is made by small glands in the eyelids. For the tear film to do its job, all three layers have to be in their proper places in the correct amounts, like a recipe. If any layer is missing or abnormal—which can happen for a number of reasons—the tear film becomes disorganized and no longer soothes the eye like it should.

When symptoms of dry eye syndrome occur, the front surface of the eye gets dried out (causing stickiness) and gets inflamed (causing stinging and burning). Once it gets inflamed, the eye ignores the proper tear film recipe and starts making large quantities of the aqueous layer in an effort to soothe itself. These bad tears don’t soothe the eye at all—they just run down your face, washing away the mucin and lipid layers as well. This makes the eye even more irritated, so it makes even more bad tears, and the cycle continues. An ophthalmologist is usually able to diagnose dry eye by examining the eyes. Sometimes tests that measure tear production are necessary. One test, called the Schirmer tear test, involves placing filter-paper strips under the lower eyelids to measure the rate of tear production under various conditions. Another test uses a diagnostic drop (called fluorescein or rose bengal) to look for certain patterns of dryness on the surface of the eye.

Artificial tears are eyedrops similar to your own tears. They lubricate the eyes and help maintain moisture. Artificial tears are available without a prescription. There are many brands on the market, so you may want to try several to find the one you like best. Preservative-free eyedrops are available for people who are sensitive to the preservatives in artificial tears. If you need to use artificial tears more than every two hours, preservative-free brands may be better for you. You can use the artificial tears as often as several times an hour. Conserving your eyes’ own tears is another approach to keeping the eyes moist. Tears drain out of the eye through a small channel into the nose (which is why your nose runs when you cry). Your ophthalmologist may close these channels either temporarily or permanently. The closure conserves your own tears and makes artificial tears last longer.

In winter, when indoor heating is in use, a humidifier or a pan of water on the radiator adds moisture to dry air. Wrap-around glasses may reduce the drying effect of the wind, but you should note that they are illegal to wear while driving in some states. A person with dry eye should avoid anything that may cause dryness, such as an overly warm room, hair dryers, or wind. Smoking is expecially bothersome. Some people with dry eye complain of “scratchy eyes” when they wake up. This symptom can be treated by using an artificial tear ointment or thick eyedrops at bedtime. Use the smallest amount of ointment necessary for comfort, since the ointment can cause your vision to blur. Dry eye due to a lack of vitamin A in the diet is rare in the United States but is more common in poorer countries, expecially among children. Ointments containing vitamin A can help dry eye if it is caused by unusual conditions such as Stevens-Johnson syndrome or pemphigoid. Vitamin A supplements do not seem to help people with ordinary dry eye. If you have symptoms of dry eye syndrome, ask your Long Island doctor’s at North Shore Eye Care for a dry eye evaluation. Treatments are available to halt the disease.

In Long Island In Suffolk and Nassau county, we see patients from Stony brook, setauket, port jefferson, shoreham, wading river, miller place, mount sinai, rocky point, centereach, selden coram, middle island, riverhead, ridge, calverton, manorville, shirley, mastic, moriches, brookhaven, yaphank, patchogue, medford, jamesport, cutchogue, mattituck, southold, eastport, westhampton, east hampton, southampton, sag harbor, hampton bays, quogue, poquott, belle terre, sound beach, montauk, lake grove, Farmingville, farmingdale, new york city, queens, brooklyn, and many other towns.

When a patient signs up to have lasik, they have to make sure that they are getting only the best in ilasik bladeless custom lasik. The board certified eye doctors and eye surgeons at North Shore Eye Care in Smithtown New York in Long Island's Suffolk county perform only the most advanced lasik procedures currently available. Dr. Jeffrey martin and Dr. Larry Zweibel have been featured in Top Doctors: New York Metro Area for several years for their efforts toward excellence in laser vision correction and laser eye surgery.

With lasik, Dr. Martin, Dr. Zweibel and Dr. John Mauro feel that you must have custom lasik. In a non-custom laser eye surgery procedure, the eye doctor simply takes the numbers from the eye glass measurement and programs them into the laser so that there is no wavemap or waveprint. Every patient that is a -1.00 will be seen as the same. As we know, every person has a unique fingerprint and every person has a unique visual system. Because of that, Visx Customvue designed a system in that the laser vision correction laser takes a custom snap shot of your entire visual system taking into account finer irregularities like Coma, Trefoil, and Spherical Aberration for a more customized and unique correction of vision. No two wavescans are the same and no two corrections are the same. By doing this, our board certified eye surgeons get more patients to 20/20 and beyond. Dr. Jeff Martin, Dr. Larry Zweibel and Dr. John Mauro also feel that every patient should have a blade-free flap as the first step in lasik. Intralase, a bladeless laser makes the most precise and safest flap possible and this works well with custom lasik for the very best results. To make this lasik procedure affordable, we offer zero percent financing for two years through care credit.

In Long Island New York in Suffolk and Nassau County, we see patients from Smithtown, kings park, saint james, nesconset, hauppauge, lake grove, ronkonkoma, bohemia, holtsville, holbrook, islip, islandia, bay shore, babylon, patchogue, medford, stony brook, setauket, nissequogue, head of the harbor, old field, poquott, belle terre, commack, lake ronkonkoma, northport, port jefferson, centereach, ridge, riverhead, new york city, farmingdale, farmingville, dix hills, melville, and many other towns.

Cataract surgery is an outpatient procedure. A cataract is a clouding of the natural lens of the eye that occurs as we age. Some patients get cataract changes earlier in life, but most people develop visually significant cataracts in their 60s, 70s and 80s. Some things make cataracts worse such as smoking, UV light like sunlight, steroids and other medications as well as family history. At North shore eye Care in Smithtown New York in Suffolk county of Long island, our board certified eye doctors and eye surgeons specialize in cataract surgery and cataract treatment. When a cataract is removed, we replace it with an intraocular lens or IOL which restores vision. Standard implants give mostly distance vision and patients still need glasses for close, but there is a group of IOLs that give far and near vision, called premium IOLs and consist of multifocal implants and accommodating implants.

With multifocal implants, patients are able to see far and near. Patients can not have astigmatism for this lens to work well, so astigmatism must be corrected if present. These implants work by a patient having simultaneous near and far vision through a series of rings in the lens that alternate for near and far. When a patient looks near, vision is seen through the near rings. When a patient looks through the distance rings, they see far. These lenses work well, but they do take some adapting and patients can see rings around lights at night and reduced clarity of vision due to splitting light between near and far. These implants are the Restor, Rezoom, and Tecnis Multifocal.

Dr. Jeff Martin and dr. Larry Zweibel of North Shore Eye Care are proud that their practice has been named a Crystalens Center of Excellence. Crystalens is an accommodating implant that allows patients to see far and near by a different mechanism. With crystalens, the patient gets 100% of the light for far and near which increases clarity of the image in comparison to multifocals. The natural muscles of focus are used to move the lens slightly forward and allow an image to be clear at far and near. This lens movement allows for greater range of vision. This lens movement is what naturally occurs in the eye when it is young. With Crystalens, there are no rings around lights at night and no decrease in contrast, but sometimes the amount of near vision is not quite as good as a patient would want it to be. Our cataract doctors and cataract surgeons, Dr. Martin, Dr. Zweibel,and Dr. Mauro have all enjoyed the amazing results of this lens.

In Long island in Suffolk and Nassau County, we see patients from Cold Spring Harbor, plainview, woodbury, syosset, bethpage, manhasset, huntington, commack, northport, centerport, greenlawn, dix hills, deer park, melville, bay shore, babylon, massapequa, lindenhurst, copaigue, islip, islandia, smithtown, nesconset, saint james, kings park, and many other towns.

Iris registration is part of every laser vision correction procedure possible at North Shore Eye Care in smithtown New york in Suffolk county of Long Island. The board certified surgeons at North shore eye Care, Dr. Jeffrey Martin, Dr. Larry Zweibel, and Dr. John Mauro pride themselves in doing only the best in lasik vision correction by doing only bladeless Intralase lasik with Customvue custom laser eye surgery. Iris registration is part of advanced customvue by Visx along with automatic centering and automatic tracking. Iris registration describes how the laser looks at each patient's individual iris landmarks that are unique in every patient and centers the laser vision correction on those exact landmarks. This is a very significant advance in laser vision correction because when a patient goes from sitting to lying down, the eye can rotate up to ten degrees. Astigmatism is exact in its axis so rotation of the eye could cause significant misalignment of the procedure with less than perfect results. With iris registration, the measurements are taken sitting and then are registered while lying down to insure perfect centration and alignment. Most patients have pupils that are a bit off center as well. With iris registation, this mild decentration of the pupil is adjusted for as well. All of this refinement leads to your personal best results. Some doctors still use blade machines for flaps and non-custom procedures, but at North Shore Eye Care, you can be assured that you will get only the very best in laser vision correction always. Castle connolly ltd has named Dr. Jeff Martin and Dr. Zweibel as Top Doctors in the New York Metro Area for the last few years which further displays the committment to excellence. Consultations for lasik are free at our Smithtown New York office and Dr. Martin, Dr. Zweibel or Dr. Mauro are always available to let you know if you are a great candidate for lasik.

In Long Island In Suffolk and Nassau county, we see patients from Stony brook, setauket, port jefferson, shoreham, wading river, miller place, mount sinai, rocky point, centereach, selden coram, middle island, riverhead, ridge, calverton, manorville, shirley, mastic, moriches, brookhaven, yaphank, patchogue, medford, jamesport, cutchogue, mattituck, southold, eastport, westhampton, east hampton, southampton, sag harbor, hampton bays, quogue, poquott, belle terre, sound beach, montauk, lake grove, Farmingville, farmingdale, new york city, queens, brooklyn, and many other towns.

What is really behind modern cataract surgery? How is it different? Is it hype or truly better. Dr. Jeffrey Martin, a cataract surgeon and cataract doctor at North Shore eye Care will try to answer these questions. Dr. Jeff Martin and dr. Larry Zweibel are both board certified eye doctors that have both been included in "Top Doctors: New York Metro Area" by Castle Connolly. Dr. Martin, Dr. Zweibel along with Dr. John Mauro perform about one thousand cataract surgery procedures each year out of their Smithtown nEW yORK office in Suffolk County of Long Island.

The way that North Shore Eye Care performs cataract surgery is with topical or eye drop anesthesia with IV sedation for relaxation. In years past, we used to perform a needle injection behind the eye which has danger associated with it because it is a blind needle injection and there are many nerves and blood vessels in the area of the injection. There were measures to make the injection safer like blunting the needle tip, but unavoidable complications such as retrobulbar hemorrhage and eye muscle damage were always possible and did happen. By switching to eye drop numbing of the eye, Dr. Martin, Dr. Zweibel and Dr. Mauro avoid all possible complications from needle injections. Some eye doctors still use needle injections; we do not. In order to perform cataract surgery without stitches or sutures, the eye surgeon must make an excellent incision that seals well. Incisions in cataract surgery are under 3 millimeters but still need to made precisely every case. Our board certified eye doctors pay special attention to cataract incisions and therefore rarely need to place a suture. Because they eye is not completed paralyzed with a needle injection, patients are able to use their eye immediately and not wear a patch. The patch was used because when an eye is that numb, a patient would not feel an injury or problem.

At North Shore eye Care in Smithtown New York, we specialize in accommodating implants and multifocal implants like the crystalens HD, crystalens 5.0, tecnis multifocal, restor, rezoom as well as the Acrysof Toric implant for astigmatism.

In Long island new York in Suffolk and Nassau County, we see patients from Smithtown, nesconset, saint james, kings park, fort salonga, head of the harbor, poquott, old field, nissequogue, hauppauge, lake grove, bohemia, ronkonkoma, holtsville, holbrook, sayville, islip, islandia, patchogue, medford, brookhaven, bayport, bellport, bay shore, babylon, new york city, queens, brooklyn, and many other towns.

Blade vs bladefree Intralase lasik... which is right for you. Years ago, the lasik doctors and lasik surgeons at North Shore Eye Care in smithtown New York in long island routinely used blade machines called microkeratomes to make flaps in the superficial layers of the cornea as the first step in Customvue Wavescan lasik. This was the best that our eye doctors has at the time and it was relatively safe. However, there were occasions where the flap came out less than perfect and the lasik laser eye surgery had to be stopped. Even worse, some flap complications caused permanent vision loss. With the advent of bladeless Intralase lasik, Dr. Jeff Martin, Dr. Larry Zweibel and Dr. John Mauro of North Shore Eye Care in Suffolk County of New York were able to make a flap with a laser that was safer and more precise. With intralase, the chance of a less than perfect flap is reduced and the quality of the flap made is planar which is better for the optics of the eye. Ilasik or bladeless custom lasik with iris registration is the only way to perform lasik here in Long Island New York. Some doctors are still using blade machines in lasik, but this is simply no longer the best way to perform lasik. Dr. Martin and Dr. Zweibel have been included for the last few years in Castle Connolly's "Top Doctors: New York Metro Area" which is a peer reviewed text put out by Castle Connolly and represents the top ten percent of practicing physicians in each region by specialty.

When it comes to lasik, we use only intralase and use only Customvue by visx making a wavescan or waveprint so that each lasik procedure is precisely customized to each patient's eyes. We offer zero percent financing for two years through care credit for those patients that would like to spread the payments over time.

In Long Island New York, we see patients from Suffolk and Nassau County including Smithtown, nesconset, saint james, kings park, huntington, commack, northport, centerport, greenlawn, plainview, bethpage, woodbury, syosset, dix hills, melville, deer park, massapequa, lindenhurst, sayville, cold spring harbor, ashraoken, bay shore, babylon, islip, islandia, nwe york city and many other towns.

Cataract surgery has come a long way over the last decade or so that Dr. jeffrey martin has been practicing at North Shore eye Care in Smithtown new York in Long Island. Dr. Jeff Martin and Dr. Larry Zweibel are the two board certified eye doctors and eye surgeons at North shore Eye Care in Suffolk County of Long Island. They both perform advanced cataract surgery along with their newest associate, Dr. John Mauro, a cataract and lasik specialist and also a uveitis specialist that just completed a year long fellowship at Harvard University in boston. In advanced cataract surgery, a small incision is used to remove the cloudy lens of the eye or cataract. This is done through a small incision using eye drops as anesthesia. Our patients stay in their own clothes and return to the comfort of their home the very same day. We rarely use needle injections, stitches, or even an eye patch. When the cataract or cloudy lens of the eye is removed, our board certified eye surgeons must replace the cataract with an intraocular implant or IOL. There are many types including the premium lenses like the accommodating lenses, crystalens 5.0 and Crystalens HD. We also use multifocal implants like the restor, rezoom, and tecnis multifocal and the astigmatism implant, the acrysof toric implant.

Dr. Martin and Dr. Zweibel love the Crystalens implant. This implant allows our patients to have greater range of vision including far and near vision. The lens gives excellent distance vision without the annoying side effects that plague some of the multifocal implants such as glare and haloes around lights at night. When the accommodative muscles of the eyes contract, the lens vaults forward naturally much like the natural lens did. This changes the focal point for near which allows close vision. If a patient does not get the full vision that he or she may want and it can be remedied with a laser vision correction enhancement, we do bladeless custom lasik ilasik at no charge.

In Long Island in Suffolk and Nassau Counties, we see patients from Smithtown, Nesconset, saint james, kings park, centereach, selden, coram, middle island, ridge, riverhead, patchogue, medford, mastic, moriches, shirley, yaphank, manorville, calverton, stony brook, setauket, port jefferson, shoreham, wading river, miller place, mount sinai, rocky point, jamesport, cutchogue, mattituck, southold, eastport, quogue, east hampton, southampton, sag harbor, hampton bays, westhampton, new york city, queens, brooklyn and many other towns.

Blade-free lasik is the way to go in Long Island New York. Why is bladeless lasik safer and better? In lasik, the first step of the lasik procedure is the construction of a superficial flap to put the laser vision correction laser eye surgery under. By hiding the lasik ablation under a flap, recovery is much quicker with less pain and most people are able to drive to the office the very next day. So with lasik, recovery is much quicker and infection risk is probably less because the epithelium is closed much quicker forming a barrier to infection. The older way of making flaps with blade microkeratomes was successful and relatively safe, but there were significant possible complications that would happen regardless of the safety steps you put in place. A poor flap would stop the procedure and could cause permanent visual comprimise. With blade free lasik with Intralase, the flap is made with a laser and you are able to visualize the flap as it is made and if it does not look perfect, your lasik doctor simply does not lift the flap and no harm is done. Often, the lasik procedure can simply be repeated or be converted to Advanced Customvue lasik with Waveprint or Wavemap for a truly wave scan assisted custom laser vision correction procedure. The Intralasik flap is like a postage stamp in that if it is not scored, it does not affect vision and that makes bladeless lasik better. The board certified eye surgeons at North Shore eye care, Dr. Jeffrey Martin, and Dr. Larry Zweibel do only bladeless custom lasik with iris registration on every case possible. Dr. John Mauro, a lasik specialist at North Shore eye Care, also fully believes in ilasik as the only way to perform lasik.

In Long Island New york in Suffolk and Nassau County, we see patients from Smithtown, nesconset, saint james, kings park, fort salonga, islip, islandia, hauppauge, lake grove, holbrook, ronkonkoma, sayville, holtsville, bohemia, bay shore, babylon, patchogue, medford, farmingdale, farmingville, new york city, queens and brooklyn.

Many patients ask the eye doctors and eye surgeons at North Shore Eye Care in Smithtown New York in Long Island in Suffolk County when is it that they need to have cataract surgery. People do not want to have unecessary cataract surgery and they are quite concerned that the timing is right and that they have a "ripe" cataract. Dr. Jeffrey Martin and Dr. Larry Zweibel, both board certified and honored as Top Doctors in the New York Metro Area, are experts with cataract surgery and have both done thousands of modern cataract eye surgeries. According to our board certified cataract surgeons, patients are the only ones usually able to tell when cataract surgery is right. When a cataract causes blurred vision or glare to the level that it alters your lifestyle or your quality of life, it is time to have cataract surgery. A patient that is very active and does night time activities may have cataract surgery before an older patient that is relatively sedentary and has few outside interests. Most importantly, we ask the patient how their vision is doing and if they feel that they need better vision for a comfortable life. This takes into account other confounding pathology including dry eye, glaucoma, macular degeneration, diabetes and diabetic retinopathy as well as eye lid disorders or other visual disorders.

At North Shore Eye, our cataract doctors and cataract surgeons use the most advanced techniques including small incision cataract surgery without the use of injections, stitches, or even an eye patch. Dr. Martin, Dr. Zweibel, and Dr. John Mauro pride themselves that North Shore Eye Care has been named a Crystalens National Center of Excellence. We use many premium implants including the accommdating implants such as Crystalens 5.0 and Crystalens HD. We use multifocal implants like the Restor, Rezoom, and Tecnis Multifocal and also use the astigmatism reducing Alcon Acrysof Toric.

In Long Island in Suffolk and Nassau County, we see patients from Smithtown, Cold Spring Harbor, huntington, northport, commack, greenlawn, centerport, dix hills, melville, deer park, lindenhurst, babylon, bay shore, islip, islandia, massapequa, sayville, plainview, bethpage, woodbury, syosset, manhasset, garden city, nesconset, saint james, kings park,and many other towns.

Dry eye is a eye problem that many Americans suffer from over the course of their lives. A dry eye often feels irritated and presents with foreign body sensation, tearing, red eye, blurred vision worsening over the course of the day and several other complaints. As an eye doctor and eye surgeon, the board certified eye doctors at North Shore eye Care in Smithtown new York in Long Island's Suffolk County will see dry eye on examination. We will see an altered tear film that may dry and break up quicker. We may see that the eye wets less effectively on Schirmer testing. The eyelid margins may look red and irritated and there may be signs of new vessel growth in areas that don't usually have blood vessel ingrowth such as the periphery of the cornea of eye lash margin. Dry eye can cause chronic irritation and change in architecture of the eyelid and ocular surface. Dry eye also becomes very important in the setting of cataract surgery or ilasik bladeless custom laser vision correction and laser eye surgery. As board certified surgeons at North Shore eye Care, Dr. Jeffrey Martin, Dr. Lawrence Zweibel and board eligible Dr. John Mauro are used to treating dry eye in the surgical setting as well as in the normal lifestyle setting. There are wonderful medications and supplements that help those with dry eye before, during and after laser vision correction.

The way the lasik doctors at North Shore Eye Care in Long Island New York perform lasik using only blade-free Intralasik or Intralase lasik help keep dry eye to a minium. We use all custom Customvue by lasik utilizing wavescan to make a waveprint or wavemap of your unique cornea to give you the most custom and exact lasik result possible. All of our laser eye surgery procedures have automatic centering and tracking as well as iris registration for exact centration.

In Long Island New York in Suffolk and Nassau Counties, we see patients from Smithtown, Centereach, Selden, coram, middle island, riverhead, ridge, shoreham, wading river, stony brook, setauket, port jefferson, patchogue, medford, yaphank, mastic, moriches, brookhaven, bellport, bayport, calverton, manorville, eastport, westhampton, southampton, east hampton, sag harbor, hampton bays, montauk, jamesport, cutchogue, mattituck, southold, miller place, mt sinai, rocky point, sound beach, old field, belle terre, and many other towns.

Dry eye is a problem that affects people as they age. Dry eye is commonly seen in older people more so in postmenopausal women for hormonal reasons. Many medications such as antidepressants and hypertensive medications can also add to dry eye. With dry eye, there can be many symptoms including foreign body sensation, tearing, red eye, burning and fluctuation in vision. When it comes to cataract surgery, even a perfect cataract surgery can make dry eye a bit worse especially during the immediate post operative period. There are medications and treatments for dry eye that are very helpful in many cases and often the board certified eye surgeons and eye doctors at North Shore Eye Care in smithtown new york in Long Island's Suffolk County treat dry eye before cataract surgery.

In cataract surgery, Dr. Jeffrey Martin, Dr. Lawrence Zweibel and Dr. John Mauro, the eye surgeons at North Shore Eye Care, the cloudy lens of the eye or cataract is removed using gentle ultrasound or phacoemulsification through a small incision under local IV sedation. Anesthesia of the eye is accomplished using eye drops only and there are usually no needles around the eye, stitches, or even an eye patch following surgery. When the cataract is removed, a new lens called an intraocular lens implant or IOL is used to restore vision. The eye doctors at North Shore Eye Care use many of the premium implants available including Crystalens 5.0, Crystalens HD, Restor, Rezoom, Tecnis Multifocal and even the Acrysof Toric lens. These lenses are designed to reduce or eliminate the need for glasses following cataract surgery. There is an added cost for these premium implants, but most patients that recieve one of these implants is pleased and we do offer zero percent financing through Care Credit for two years. In addition, if a small adjustment is necessary following implantation, we offer ilasik bladeless custom lasik at no charge to help you get your best result.

In Long Island in Suffolk and Nassau counties, we see patients from Smithtown, Nesconset, Saint James, Kings Park, Islip, Islandia, Hauppauge, Bohemia, Lake grove, ronkonkoma, holtsville, holbrook, sayville, babylon, bay shore, lindenhurst, massapequa, and many other towns, including new york city, manhattan, queens, and brooklyn.

With the latest procedures in laser vision correction, there is advanced accuracy and advanced safety. With ilasik, the flap in the superficial layers of the cornea which is the first step in lasik is made with a bladeless or blade free laser called Intralase. This is the safest and most precise way to make a flap in the cornea. Visx Customvue is then used to create a wavemap or waveprint of the eye using Wavescan so that each laser eye surgery procedure is customized completely to each patient. By doing only bladeless custom lasik, the board certified eye doctors and eye surgeons at North Shore Eye Care provide only the best and safest lasik laser vision correction procedures available.

North Shore Eye Care was founded by Dr. Sidney Martin in 1960 and has always strived for the best in eye care including care for glaucoma, cataracts, macular degeneration, uveitis, dry eye, and many other eye problems. Dr. Jeffrey Martin and Dr. Larry Zweibel, both board certified eye doctors and eye surgeons, have been featured in Top Doctors in the New York Metro Area by Castle Connolly for several years which highlights their committment for excellence in eye care and eye surgery. Dr. John Mauro, our newest associate specializes in uveitis as well as cataract surgery and lasik laser eye surgery.

From the moment you walk through our doors in Smithtown New York in Long Island in Suffolk County, you feel as though you have arrived at the right eye care and lasik practice. Our staff is courteous and kind and well informed when it comes to ilasik, lasek, epilasik, prk or bladeless custom lasik. Lasik evaluations are free include corneal topography, pachymetry and a meeting with the lasik surgeon or lasik doctor in order to determine if you are a good candidate for lasik laser eye surgery.

In Long Island New York in Suffolk and Nassau county, we see patients from smithtown, nesconset, saint james, kings park, fort salonga, islip, islandia, hauppauge, lake grove, ronkonkoma, bohemia, holtsville, holbrook, farmingdale, farmingville, patchogue, medford, brookhaven, bellport, bayport, mastic, moriches, shirley, manorville, calverton, eastport, quogue, westhampton, east hampton, sag harbor, southampton, hampton bays, jamesport, cutchogue, mattituck, southold, stony brook, setauket, port, jefferson, shoreham, wading river, centereach, selden, coram, middle island, riverhead, ridge, miller place, mt sinai, rocky point, bay shore, babylon, lindenhurst, massapequa, deer park, dix hills, melville, plainview, bethpage, woodbury, syosset, cold spring harbor, huntington, commack, northport, greenlawn, centerport, new york city, queens, brooklyn, and other towns.

North Shore eye Care was founded by Dr. Sidney Martin, a board certified eye doctor and eye surgeon in 1960. North Shore eye care has always been at the forefront of eye care advancements including technology and care related to cataracts and cataract surgery, glaucoma, macular degeneration, diabetes, glaucoma, uveitis, dry eye, and other eye problems of children and adults. Dr. Jeffrey Martin, Dr. Larry Zweibel and Dr. John Mauro continue this tradtion with advanced cataract surgery and ilasik bladeless custom lasik. Dr. Martin and Dr. Zweibel are both board certified and have been named as "Top Doctors: New York Metro Area" for several years. Also North Shore eye Care has been named a Crystalens National Center of Excellence by Bausch and Lomb. These accomplishments highlight the dedication and striving for excellence in eye care by our eye doctors and eye surgeons.

In cataract surgery, the cloudy lens of the eye or cataract is removed using gentle ultrasound or phacoemulsification through a small incision using topical eye drop anesthesia. Our patients stay in their own comfortable clothes and recieve IV sedation to relax during the cataract treatment. We do not use needles around the eyes, stitches or an eye patch as these modalities are not usuallly necessary. After the faulty lens of the eye is removed, Dr. Martin, Dr. Zweibel and Dr. Mauro replace the lens of the eye with an intraocular lens implant or IOL to restore vision. We specialize in accommodating implants like the Crystalens 5.0 and the Crystalens HD. We also use the multifocal implants, Restor, Rezoom and Tecnis Multifocal. The Alcon Acrysof Toric implant is another implant that reduces or eliminates the need for glasses or contact lenses by reducing astigmatism. If a minor adjustment is necessary following one of these precise premium implants, ilasik or bladleless custom lasik is done at no charge.

In Smithtown Long island new york in Suffolk and Nassau counties, we see patients from centereach, selden, coram, middle island, riverhead, ridge, stony brook, setauket, port jefferson, shoreham, wading river, miller place, mt sinai, rocky point, patchogue, medford, farmingdale, farmingville, yaphank, shirley, mastic, moriches, manorville, calverton, eastport, westhampton, quogue, east hampton, sag harbor, hampton bays, montauke, southampton, jamesport, cutchogue, mattituck, southold, islip, islandia, hauppauge, bohemia, ronkonkoma, lake grove, holtsville, holbrook, sayville, bayport, brookhaven, bellport, bay shore, babylon, lindenhurst, massapequa, deer park, dix hills, melville, smithtown, nesconset, kings park, saint james, fort salonga, huntington, cold spring harbor, commack, northport, greenlawn, centerport, plainview, bethpage, woodbury, syosset, new york city, queens, brooklyn, and many other towns.

In Suffolk county in Long Island New York, North Shore Eye Care is the premier lasik laser vision correction practice. Smithtown New York is where Dr. Sidney Martin, a board certified eye doctor and eye surgeon started North Shore Eye Care in 1960. At that time, Dr. Sid Martin took care of patients with many eye problems including glaucoma, macular degeneration, diabetes, cataract, uveitis, dry eye, laser eye surgery and many other eye conditions of children and adults. Dr. Jeffrey Martin and Dr. Larry Zweibel continue that tradition in excellence in eye care including advanced cataract surgery and lasik laser eye surgery for nearsightedness, farsightedness, and astigmatism. Dr. Jeff Martin and Dr. Larry Zweibel have been included in Top Doctors: New York Metro Area for the past several years and North Shore Eye Care has been named a National Crystalens Center of Excellence by Bausch and Lomb. This further highlights the tradititon of excellence at our Smithtown New York eye care practice in Suffolk County.

When performing lasik, we do only the best ilasik available which is always bladeless custom lasik. We make the flap in lasik using Intralase which is a blade-free laser that makes the safest and most precise flaps possible. We then use Visx Customvue using Wavescan to deliver a customized experience for each patient. Wavescan makes a waveprint or wavemap which is similar to a fingerprint of your unique vision and allows each laser vision correction procedure to be tailored to each patients particular eyes. For this bladeless custom lasik procedure, our lasik doctors and lasik surgeons offer zero percent financing for two years using Care Credit. Our patients enjoy being able to have the best in lasik laser eye surgery and being able to spread out the payments a bit.

In Suffolk and Nassau Counties of Long Island, we see patients from Smithtown, nesconset, saint james, kings park, fort salonga, hauppauge, lake grove, bohemia, ronkonkoma, holtsville, holbrook, farmingdale, farmingville, sayville, bay shore, babylon, lindenhurst, massapequa, deer park, dix hills, melville, huntington, commack, northport, centerport, greenlawn, cold spring harbor, bethpage, plainview, woodbury, syosset, centereach, selden, coram, middle island, riverhead, ridge, stony brook, setauket, port jefferson, shoreham, wading river, miller place, mt sinai, rocky point, calverton, manorville, shirley, mastic, moriches, patchogue, medford, brookhaven, bellport, bayport, eastport, westhampton, east hampton, sag harbor, southampton, hampton bays quogue, jamesport, cutchogue, mattituck, southold, new york city, queens, brooklyn, and many other towns.

Cataract surgery has come a long way over the last few years. In Smithtown New York in Long Island, our board certified eye doctors and eye surgeons have improved on technique and technology to the point where cataract surgery is quick and painless and our board certified cataract surgeons, Dr. Jeffrey Martin and Dr. Lawrence Zweibel, enjoy a great following for their skills. Castle Connolly ltd has recognized Dr. Martin and Dr. Zweibel as Top Doctors in the New York Metro Area and North Shore eye care has been named a National Crystalens Center of Excellence. In cataract surgery, the cataract or cloudy lens of the eye is removed through a small incision using gentle ultrasound or phacoemulsification. After the defective lens of the eye is removed, we replace it with a intraocular lens or IOL to restore vision. Dr. Martin, Dr. Zweibel, and our newest associate, Dr. John Mauro, specialize in the premium implants that help to reduce or eliminate the need for glasses or contact lenses. We specialize in the accommodating implants like the Crystalens 5.0 and the Crystalens HD. We use the multifocal implants, the Rezoom, Restor, and Tecnis Multifocal and we also specialize in the Acrysof Toric implant that eliminates astigmatism in most cases. This modern form of cataract surgery is done without needles around the eyes, stitches, or even an eye patch. Patients stay in their own comfortable clothes, get IV sedation for comfort and return to the comfort of their own home the very same day.

Dr. John Mauro has joined North Shore Eye Care with a fellowship from Harvard University in Uveitis and intraocular inflammation and he also is interested in caring for patients with glaucoma, cataracts, macular degeneration, diabetes, uveitis, and other eye problems of children and adults. He also did additional training in ilasik bladeless custom lasik and other forms of laser vision correction.

In Long island New York in Suffolk and Nassau counties, we see patients from centereach, selden, coram, middle island, ridge, riverhead, stony brook, setauket, port jefferson, shoreham, wading river, rocky point, miller place, mt sinai, patchogue, medford, brookhaven, mastic, moriches, yaphank, shirley, bayport, bellport, farmingdale, farmingville, manorville, calverton, eastport, westhampton, east hampton, sag harbor, hampton bays, southampton, jamesport, cutchogue, mattituck, southold, islip, islandia, hauppauge, lake grove, bohemia, ronkonkoma, holtsville, holbrook, sayville, lindenhurst, bay shore, babylon, massapequa, smithtown, nesconset, saint james, kings park, fort salonga, nissequogue, head of the harbor, old field, belle terre, poquott, sound beach, cold spring harbor, huntington, commack, northport, centerport, greenlawn, dix hills, melville, deer park, plainview, bethpage, woodbury, syosset, new york city, queens, brooklyn, and many other towns.

In Suffolk County of Long Island New York, North Shore Eye Care has been a leader in laser vision correction and advanced cataract surgery. Our board certified lasik surgeons and lasik doctors, Dr. Jeffrey martin and Dr. Lawrence Zweibel have been performing the best in bladeless custom lasik ilasik for many years and have always given their patients only the most up to date and superior laser eye surgery treatments. North Shore Eye Care was founded in 1960 by the board certified eye surgeon and eye doctor, Dr. Sidney Martin and has maintained that personal touch they he set out to create back then. North Shore eye Care prides itself in excellent eye care including care for glaucoma, macular degeneration, diabetes, cataracts, dry eye, uveitis and other eye care problems. Dr. John Mauro, our newest associate just completed a fellowship at Harvard University in Boston and has joined our excellent team of lasik surgeons and lasik doctors.

In lasik, we use Intralase, a blade-free laser to make a flap in the superficial layers of the cornea. This is the safest and most precise way to make a flap in the cornea. We then use Customvue by Visx to make a wavemap or waveprint so that the laser vision correction surgery is completely customized to each patient's individual eyes. By using wavescan along with automatic centering and automatic tracking of ilasik bladeless custom lasik, our patients get the best vision possible. In addition, we use iris registration, which is a technology that allows the laser to use the fine markers of each patient's iris to get exact centration of the laser vision correction procedure. Dr. Jeff Martin and Dr. Larry Zweibel have been voted Top Doctors in the New York Metro Area by Castle connolly for the expertise in laser eye surgery and North Shore Eye has been named a Crystalens National Center of Excellence.

In Suffolk and Nassau counties of Long Island New York, we see patients from Smithtown, nesconset, saint james, kings park, islip, islandia, hauppauge, bohemia, lake grove, ronkonkoma, holtsville, holbrook, farmingdale, farmingville, patchogue, medford, brookhaven, bayport, mastic, moriches, yaphank, manorville, calverton, shirley, eastport, westhampton, east hampton, sag harbor, hampton bays, southampton, jamesport, cutchogue, mattituck, southold, centereach, selden, coram, middle island, riverhead, ridge, stony brook, setauket, port jefferson, shoreham, wading river, miller place, mt sinai, rocky point, cold spring harbor, syosset, bethpage, woodbury, plainview, huntington, commack, northport, dix hills, deer park, melville, sayville, lindenhurst, massapequa, bay shore, babylon, greenlawn, centerport, new york city, queens, brooklyn, and many other towns.

In Suffolk County of Long Island New York, there is an eye care and cataract surgery practice that stands above the rest. North Shore Eye Care in Smithtown New York with its board certified eye surgeons and eye doctors delivers the best in cataract treatment and laser eye surgery to all of its patients. The cataract surgeons and cataract doctors of North Shore Eye Care, Dr. Jeffrey Martin, Dr. Lawrence Zweibel and Dr. John Mauro provide the latest in advanced cataract surgery and ilasik bladeless custom lasik. Dr. Jeff Martin and Dr. Larry Zweibel have been named as "Top Doctors: New York Metro Area" by Castle Connolly for the last few years and North Shore eye Care has been named a National Crystalens Center of Excellence by Bausch and Lomb.

In cataract surgery, Dr. Martin, Dr. Zweibel and Dr. Mauro use a small incision to remove the cloudy lens of the eye or cataract using gentle ultrasound or phacoemulsification. Our patients stay in their own clothes and are able to return to the comfort of their home the very same day. We use gentle IV sedation and numbing eye drops for anesthesia and almost never use needles around the eyes, stitches, or an eye patch. After a cataract is removed, we use an intraocular lens or IOL to replace the lens in order to restore vision. Dr. Martin and Dr. Zweibel specialize in premium implants like the accommodating implants, Crystalens 5.0 and Crystalens HD. We also use multifocal implants like rezoom, restor, and tecnis multifocal as well as the toric lens from Alcon that reduces or eliminates astigmatism in all cases. All of these special intraocular lenses aim to reduce or eliminate our patients dependence on glasses and contact lenses. If a small adjustment is necessary, we do that at no cost using the best laser vision correction technology like bladeless custom lasik or ilasik.

In Suffolk and Nassau Counties of Long island, we see patients from islip, islandia, bohemia, ronkonkoma, hauppauge, lake grove, holtsville, holbrook, patchogue, medford, brookhaven, bayport, bellport, yaphank, mastic, shirley, moriches, eastport, westhampton, east hampton, sag harbor, southampton, hampton bays, quogue, centereach, selden ,coram, middle island, riverhead, ridge, rocky point, miller place, mt sinai, stony brook, setauket, port jefferson, shoreham, wading river, jamesport, manorville, calverton, cutchogue, mattituck, southold, smithtown, nesconset, saint james, kings park, fort salonga, head of the harbor, nisseuquogue, poquott, belle terre, sound beach, old field, cold spring harbor, huntington, commack, northport, centerport, greenlawn, dix hills, melville, deer park, bay shore, babylon, lindenhurst, sayville, massapequa, bethpage, syosset, woodbury, plainview, new york city, queens, brooklyn, and many other towns.

Suffolk County of Long island is home to one of the best laser vision correcton ilasik practices. In Smithtown New York, North Shore Eye Care has been providing the best in eye care and eye surgery since 1960 when Dr. Sidney Martin, the board certified eye doctor and eye surgeon, started the eye care practice in Suffolk County. At that time, North Shore eye Care took care of patients with glaucoma, diabetes, macular degeneration, cataracts, uveitis, dry eye and other forms of eye disease and eye problems. Later, Dr. Sidney Martin and then Dr. Larry Zweibel were early in the adoption of laser eye surgery for laser vision correction and laser eye surgery for eye disease.

Dr. Jeffrey Martin, board certified eye surgeon and lasik surgeon, joined the practice in 1997 and Dr. Martin and Dr. Zweibel have been performing the best in lasik laser eye surgery for over 10 years. At North Shore Eye Care, we do only the best in bladeless custom lasik and ilasik and our board certified lasik doctors and lasik surgeons, Dr. Martin and Dr. Zweibel have both been named Top Doctors in the New York Metro Area by Castle Connolly ltd. North Shore eye Care has also been named a Crystalens Center of Excellence by Bausch and Lomb.

When you enter the doors of North Shore Eye in Smithtown New York in Suffolk County of Long Island, you will feel well cared for from the moment you meet our staff. We do complete free lasik laser eye surgery evaluations where corneal topography and pachymetry as well as an examination by Dr. Martin, Dr. Zweibel or Dr. Mauro to make certain that you are a good candidate for lasik, lasek, prk, or epilasik. We go over the risks and benefits of the lasik procedure as it relates to your individual eyes.

In Suffolk and Nassau Counties of Long island, we see patients from Smithtown, nesconset, saint james, kings park, fort salonga, islip, islandia, hauppauge, lake grove, bohemia, ronkonkoma, holtsville, holbrook, sayville, lindenhurst, massapequa, bay shore, babylon, farmingdale, farmingville, dix hills, melville, deer park, cold spring harbor, plainview, bethpage, woodbury, syosset, huntington, commack, northport, centerport, greenlawn, centereach, selden, coram, middle island, riverhead, ridge, stony brook, setauket, port jefferson, shoreham, wading river, miller place, mt sinai, rocky point, patchogue, medford, shirley, mastic, moriches, manorville, cutchogue, jamesport, mattituck, calverton, southold, eastport, westhampton, east hampton, sag harbor, hampton bays, southampton, new york city, brookhaven, bayport, bayville, bellport, queens, brooklyn and many other towns.

In Smithtown New York in Long island, there is a unique eye care and eye surgery practice in North Shore Eye Care. North Shore Eye Care was founded in 1960 by Dr. Sidney Martin, a board certified eye doctor and eye surgeon. North Shore eye Care was originally designed to care for patients with glaucoma, cataracts and cataract surgery, macular degeneration, diabetes and diabetic eye care, uveitis and intraocular inflammation, and laser eye surgery. Over time, the eye care practice grew and with the addition of dr. Larry Zweibel and Dr. Jeffrey Martin, the practice became more involved with the advancements in cataract surgery and ilasik bladeless custom lasik. John Mauro is our most recent associate and he specializes in uveitis and intraocular inflammation in our Smithtown New York office.

In cataract surgery, the cloudy lens of the eye or cataract is removed through a small incision using gentle ultrasound or phacoemulsification. We do this through a small incision using only eye drops for numbing of the surface of the eye. We also use IV sedation for comfort. In cataract surgery, our cataract surgeons and eye surgeons do not routinely use eye patches, or stitches. The surgery is done quickly and our cataract patients return to the comfort of their home the very same day. When the lens of the eye is removed in cataract surgery, we replace it with an intraocular lens implant or IOL. We specialize in premium implants like the accommodating implants, crystalens 5.0 and crystalens HD. We also use the multifocal implants like the restor, rezoom, and tecnis multifocal. Dr. Martin and Dr. Zweibel also use the toric implant by Alcon to reduce or eliminate astigmatism in most cases. If the result needs to be adjusted slightly for the best result, we offer ilasik bladeless custom lasik at no charge if necessary.

In Long Island in Suffolk and Nassau Counties, we see patients from Smithtown, nesconset, saint james, kings park, fort salonga, islip, islandia, bohemia, ronkonkoma, holtsville, holbrook, hauppauge, lake grove, sayville, bay shore, babylon, lindenhurst, massapequa, centereach, selden, coram, middle island, riverhead, ridge, stony brook, setauket, port jefferson, shoreham, wading river, miller place, mt sinai, rocky point, mastic, moriches, yaphank, manorville, calverton, shirley, westhampton, southampton, east hampton, sag harbor, hampton bays, eastport, jamesport, cutchogue, mattituck, southold, patchogue, medford, cold spring harbor, huntington, commack, northport, centerport, greenlawn, dix hills, melville, deer park, plainview, woodbury, syosset, bethpage, new york city, queens, brooklyn, and many other towns.

Let's go over a few points in better understanding laser vision correction. The eye is like a camera. In a camera, light passes through a lens system back onto the film. The cornea and lens are at the front of the eye (anterior chamber) and are similar to a camera’s lens system. The retina is located at the back of the eye (posterior chamber) and is similar to the camera’s film. In the normal eye, light rays of an image pass through the cornea and the lens and are focussed directly on the retina to produce a clear image. In a myopic eye, the light rays are passed through the cornea and lens but the point at which they converge (focus) is in front of the retina, not on the retina. This configuration allows clear images of near objects but not those that are far away. While there are numerous surgical options available, not all individuals are good candidates for specific procedures. Patients should review these options in depth with their physicians prior to making any final decisions. In a hyperopic eye, the light rays do not converge or focus by the time they reach the retina. Hyperopic patients can focus on more distant objects, but not images that are close at hand. Non-surgical treatment options include glasses and contact lenses. While there are numerous surgical options available, not all individuals are good candidates for specific procedures. Patients should review these options in depth with their physicians prior to making any final decisions. With astigmatism, the rays of light do not converge into a single point but form a line on the retina. There are various types of astigmatism included regular, mixed and irregular astigmatism. Currently, excimer lasers in the US are approved for treatment of regular and mixed astigmatism. Recent advances in technology now allow for the therapeutic treatment of induced irregular astigmatism. Patients who believe they have astigmatism should discuss this subject in further detail with their physician to gain a better understanding of the mechanisms in their case.

The Refractive Surgeon and Style of Care

The choice of refractive surgeon is as personal as the decision to have the surgery. Many patients have their ophthalmologist picked out before making the final decision to have the surgery. Others consider the surgery and only begin looking for a surgeon once the decision is made. A word of mouth network often proves a good initial source of information. You should ask friends, family and associates if they could recommend a surgeon based on personal experience. Consider expanding this circle by speaking with an optometrist with whom you have already developed a relationship. Once you have expanded the pool of possibilities to the extent that you feel comfortable, it is time to narrow the choices to suit your own preferences by interviewing surgeons and looking at practices. Each surgical practice is different, and you should understand how those on your list approach patient care, from the pre-operative protocol through the post-operative visits. For instance, some practices devote themselves entirely to refractive surgery in general and LASIK in particular. These practices operate very differently from those that offer refractive surgery as part of their menu of ophthalmic services. Some practices offer a variety of staff to provide patient care. Others offer extensive surgeon/patient interaction. You need to decide which system works best for you.

Look for Experience

Several studies have shown that there is a learning curve associated with this procedure.1-4 The rate at which an individual surgeon progresses through the learning curve differs as there are many variables which must be taken into account. The number of procedures performed and length of time practicing the procedure are only two. It is important for you to gain an overall sense of the surgeon’s experience with the procedure, the equipment to be used and treatment of corrections similar to your own. Your doctor’s answer to this question is just one piece of information to evaluate.In order to achieve good results, your surgeon should make every effort to meet or exceed benchmark standards. Ask ophthalmologists how long they have been performing LASIK and about their success and complication rates. You will also want to know about a surgeon’s experience with refractive errors similar to your own. For instance, if you are a high myope, you will want assurance that your surgeon has adequate experience and success correcting high myopia.

In suffolk and nassau counties, we see patients from centereach, selden, coram, middle island, riverhead, ridge, stony brook, setauket, port jefferson, shoreham, wading river, miller place, mt sinai, rocky point, calverton, shirley, manorville, yaphank, moriches, mastic, brookhaven, bellport, bayport, patchogue, medford, jamesport, cutchogue, mattituck, southold, eastport, westhampton, east hampton, southampton, hampton bays, sag harbor, islip, islandia, holbrook, holtsville, bohemia, ronkonkoma, hauppauge, lake grove, sayville, bay shore babylon, lindenhurst, massapequa, cold spring harbor, huntington, commack, northport, centerport, greenlawn, melville, dix hills, deer park, greenlawn, centerport, plainview, woodbury, syosset, bethpage, smithtown, nesconset, saint james, kings park, fort salonga, queens, brooklyn, new york city and many other towns.

AT NORTH SHORE EYE CARE OUR SURGEONS
DR’S ZWEIBEL, MARTIN and MAURO WILL BE ABLE TO ANSWER ALL OF YOUR QUESTIONS AT YOUR FREE LASIK EVALUATION.

CALL OUR OFFICE TODAY
631-265-8780
SMITHTOWN, NY

Laser vision correction has been an amazing laser eye surgery for millions of Americans and has helped millions to see without glasses or contact lenses. In Long Island New York in Smithtown, Dr. Jeffrey martin and Dr. lawrence Zweibel perform only the best in lasik bladeless custom lasik. Both board certified and included as top Doctors: New York Metro Area, Dr. Jeff martin and Dr. Larry Zweibel are committed to the best and safest laser eye surgery procedures. With lasik, we do only ilasik in which the first step of the lasik procedure, we use Intralase to make a bladefree or bladeless flap that is the safest and most precise flap currently available. We then use Visx Customvue to make a waveprint or wavemap of your unique vision. By using Wavescan, each laser vision correction ablation is unique to that patient which is why we get the most amazing results. The laser eye surgery correction part of the bladeless custom lasik automatically centers and automatically tracks and also uses iris registration for exact centering of the lasik procedure. With Intralase and advanced customvue technology, ilasik is made to give you the best possible vision.

At our Smithtown New York office, we have hired Dr. John Mauro, a board eligible ophthalmologist, eye surgeon and eye doctor who specializes in cataract surgery, laser vision correction and completed a uveitis fellowship at Harvard University in Boston. Dr. Mauro is excited to join the team of Dr. Sidney Martin, Dr. Larry Zweibel and Dr. Jeffrey Martin and continue the trend to giving the best care to our Long Island New York patients including patients with glaucoma, cataracts, macular degeneration, uveitis, diabetes and diabetic retinopathy as well as other eye problems of children and adults.

In Long Island New york in Suffolk and Nassau Counties, we see patients from smithtown, nesconset, saint james, kings park, islip, islandia, hauppauge, lake grove, bohemia, ronkonkoma, holbrook, holtsville, sayville, bay shore, babylon, lindenhurst, massapequa, deer park, dix hills, melville, bethpage, plainview, woodbury, syosset, cold spring harbor, huntington, commack, northport, centerport, greenlawn, farmingdale, farmingville, patchogue, medford, brookhaven, bellport, bayport, yaphank, moriches, mastic, eastport, centereach, selden, coram, middle island, riverhead, ridge, stony brook, setauket, port jefferson, miller place, mt sinai, rocky point, shoreham, manorville, calverton, wading river, jamesport, mattituck, cutchogue, southold, westhampton, east hampton, southampton, hampton bays, sag harbor, montauk, new york city, queens, brooklyn, and many other towns.

In Smithtown New York right here on Long Island, there is a very special eye care practice, North Shore eye Care. North Shore Eye Care was founded by Dr. Sidney Martin in 1960 when eye care and ophthalmology was very different. The technology had not exploded yet and Dr. Sid Martin took his time with patients with glaucoma, macular degeneration, diabetes and diabetic retinopathy, lid problems, intraocular inflammation, cataracts and later, many types of laser eye surgery. As the technology improved, cataract surgery became a safer more successful surgery and Dr. Lawrence Zweibel and Dr. Jeffrey Martin saw and participated in the modernization of cataract surgery. Our newest associate, Dr. John Mauro also uses state of the art cataract surgery and laser vision correction procedures. In cataract surgery, the cloudy lens of the eye or cataract is removed using phacoemulsification or computer controlled high speed ultrasound through a small incision that seals without stitches. No eye patch is necessary in most cases and needles around the eye are also not necessary. Our patients return home the very same day and experience no pain in most cases. Our board certified eye doctors and eye surgeons, Dr. Martin and Dr. Zweibel, have been included in Top Doctors: New York Metro Area for several years as the text is put out by Castle Connolly ltd. North Shore Eye Care is also deemed a Crystalens National Center of Excellence by Bausch and Lomb.

After a cataract is removed, a new implant or IOL is placed in the eye to restore vision. Dr. Jeff martin and dr. Larry Zweibel use the best in intraocular implant technology including accommodating lenses like the Crystalens 5.0 and the Crystalens HD. We also use multifocal implants like the restor, the rezoom, and the tecnis multifocal. The Acrysof Toric implant reduces or eliminates astigmatism in most cases and our patients with these premium implants are able to see well without the need of glasses or contact lenses.

In Long Island New York in Suffolk and Nassau county, we see patients from Centereach, Selden, Coram, middle island, riverhead, ridge, stony brook, setauket, port jefferson, shoreham, wading river, miller place, mt sinai, rocky point, patchogue, medford, brookhaven, bayport, bellport, mastic, moriches, shirley, manorville, calverton, jamesport, cutchogue, mattituck, southold, westhampton, eastport, southampton, east hampton, sag harbor, hampton bays, islip, islandia, hauppauge, lake grove, bohemia, ronkonkoma, holtsville, holbrook, farmingdale, farmingville, sayville, bay shore, babylon, lindenhurst, massapequa, deer park, dix hills, melville, bethpage, plainview, woodbury, syosset, huntington, commack, northport, centerport, greenlawn, cold spring harbor, new york city, queens, brooklyn and many other towns.

Why is ilasik the best way to have lasik bladeless custom lasik? Years ago, in lasik, the first step of the lasik laser vision correction when we make a flap in the superficial layers of the cornea, we used a blade microkeratome in our Smithtown New York Long Island lasik center. This worked well, however, there were greater risks of complications including flap problems like button holes, free flaps, epithelial slips and other worse flaps complications. Today, the board certified eye doctors and eye surgeons at North Shore Eye Care, Dr. Jeffrey Martin and Dr. Lawrence Zweibel as well as our newest associate, Dr. John Mauro, do only bladefree bladeless Intralase for lasik flaps which makes a thinner, safer and more precise flap with a small a risk as possible. Dr. Martin and Dr. Zweibel, both Top Doctors in the New York Metro Area according to Castle Connolly, feel that Intralase has dramatically improved our ability to make safe excellent flaps in lasik every time. We then use Visx Customvue using Wavescan to make a fingerprint of your exact vision called a Waveprint or Wavemap. This allows us to completely customize the lasik laser eye surgery to each patient's eye including automatic centering, automatic tracking and iris registration for the most exact centration available in the world. Dr. Jeff Martin and Dr. Larry Zweibel are proud to offer only the best in custom laser vision correction including ilasik, prk, epilasik and lasek. They have performing advanced laser vision correction for over 10 years and have always offered only the best technology. We also offer zero percent financing through Care Credit for two years which makes it easier for many of our patients.

Our new associate, Dr. John Mauro specializes in uveitis or intraocular inflammation as well as cataract surgery, laser vision correction, glaucoma care as well as general eye care including macular degeneration, diabetes, and lid problems.

In Long Island New York in Suffolk and Nassau County, we see patients from Smithtown, Nesconset, Saint James, Kings Park, fort salonga, islip, islandia, hauppauge, lake grove, bohemia, ronkonkoma, holtsville, holbrook, sayville, lindenhurst, massapequa, bay shore, babylon, patchogue, medford, farmingdale, farmingville, brookhaven, yaphank, shirley, mastic, moriches, eastport, centereach, selden, coram, middle island, ridge, riverhead, shoreham, wading river, stony brook, setauket, port jefferson, miller place, mount sinai, rocky point, westhampton, manorville, calverton, southampton, east hampton, sag harbor, hampton bays, jamesport, cutchogue, mattituck, southold, deer park, dix hills, melville, plainview, woodbury, syosset, huntington, commack, northport, greenlawn, centerport, cold spring harbor, new york city, queens, brooklyn, and many other towns.

In Suffolk county of Long Island new york, there is a unique eye care practice in Smithtown called North Shore Eye Care. North Shore eye care was founded in 1960 by a board certified eye doctor and eye surgeon, dr. Sidney Martin. Dr. Martin took care of patients with glaucoma, macular degeneration, diabetes and diabetic retinopathy, uveitis, iritis, cataracts and later patients with laser eye surgery needs. Dr. Jeffrey Martin and Dr. Larry Zweibel, both board certified and included in Top Doctors in the New York Metro Area by Castle Connolly for several years, have continued that tradition of excellence in eye care with expertise in cataract surgery and lasik ilasik bladeless custom lasik.

In cataract surgery, Dr. Jeff martin, Dr. larry zweibel and Dr. John Mauro use topical eye drop anesthesia so that there are no needles used around the eyes. We do not use stitches or eye patches rountinely to make the cataract surgery procedure as easy as possible for our patients. Our cataract doctors and cataract surgeons in Smithtown new York use the finest techniques such as small incision phacoemulsification to remove the cloudy lens or cataract and then replace the lens of the eye with an intraocular lens implant or IOL. We specialize in premium state-of the art implants like the accommodating implants, Crystalens HD and Crystalens 5.0. We also use multifocal implants like the restor, rezoom, and tecnis multifocal. We are proud to be leaders in the use of the Acrysof Toric implant to reduce or eliminate astigatism. All of these premium implants reduce or eliminate the need for glasses and contact lenses for all activities and we stand by our results with free bladeless custom lasik adjustments if necessary. North Shore eye care has been named a National Crystalens Center of Excellence by Bausch and Lomb which further hightlights our striving for perfection.

In suffolk and Nassau Counties of Long island new york, we see patients from smithtown, nesconset, saint james, kings park, fort salonga, islip, islandia, hauppauge, lake grove, bohemia, ronkonkoma, holtsville, holbrook, sayville, bay shore, babylon, lindenhurst, massapequa, farmingdale, farmingville, centereach, selden, coram, middle island, riverhead, ridge, patchogue, medford, stony brook, setauket, port jefferson, miller place, mt sinai, rocky point, shoreham, wading river, calverton, shirley, manorville, yaphank, mastic, moriches, bellport, bayport, brookhaven, westhampton, eastport, southampton, east hampton, hampton bays, sag harbor, jamesport, cutchogue, mattituck, southold, deer park, dix hills, melville, bethpage, plainview, woodbury, syosset, huntington, cold spring harbor, commack, northport, greenlawn, centerport, new york city, queens, brooklyn and many other towns.

North Shore Eye Care has been at the front of eye care innovation since the board certified eye doctor and eye surgeon, Dr. Sidney Martin started the eye care practice in 1960. Back then, eye doctors mainly took care of patients with varied eye problems such as macular degeneration, glaucoma, uveitis, cataracts, diabetes and diabetic retinopathy, and other eye diseases. With time, Dr. Sidney Martin and Dr. Lawrence Zweibel began with laser surgery and with Dr. Jeffrey Martin, laser eye surgery for laser vision correction began about 15 years ago. Dr. Jeffrey Martin and Dr. Lawrence Zweibel continue the tradition of whats best in eye care including bladeless custom lasik which is termed ilasik. With ilasik, Intralase, a blade free laser is used to make the thinnest, safest and most precise flap as the first step of lasik laser eye surgery. We then use Visx Customvue technology with wavescan to create a wavemap or waveprint which is like a fingerprint of each patients individual visual system. The advent of Intralase and Customvue really revolutionized lasik laser vision correction to the excellent level where it is today. Dr. Martin and Dr. Zweibel have been voted Top Doctors in the New York Metro Area for years by Castle connolly for their achievements and North Shore eye Care has been found to be a Crystalens National Center of Excellence by Bausch and Lomb. These awards further highlight our eye doctors committment to the best in eye care and medical and surgical excellence.

Our newest associate, Dr. John Mauro, continues in the tradtion of the best in eye care having completed a fellowship in uveitis and intraocular inflammation at harvard university in Boston with the foremost specialist in that area, Dr. Stephen Foster. Dr. Mauro is well trained in cataract surgery, laser vision correction, uveitis, general eye care among other things.

In long island new york in suffolk and nassau counties, we see patients from centereach, selden, coram, middle island, riverhead, ridge, stony brook, setauket, port jefferson, shoreham, wading river, miller place, mt sinai, rocky point, calverton, shirley, manorville, yaphank, moriches, mastic, brookhaven, bellport, bayport, patchogue, medford, jamesport, cutchogue, mattituck, southold, eastport, westhampton, east hampton, southampton, hampton bays, sag harbor, islip, islandia, holbrook, holtsville, bohemia, ronkonkoma, hauppauge, lake grove, sayville, bay shore babylon, lindenhurst, massapequa, cold spring harbor, huntington, commack, northport, centerport, greenlawn, melville, dix hills, deer park, greenlawn, centerport, plainview, woodbury, syosset, bethpage, smithtown, nesconset, saint james, kings park, fort salonga, queens, brooklyn, new york city and many other towns.

North Shore Eye Care in Smithtown New York in Long Island has been a leader in eye care and ophthalmology since 1960 when Dr. Sidney Martin, a board certified eye doctor and eye surgeon founded the practice. Over the years, the eye doctors at North Shore Eye Care have cared for eye problems and eye conditions such as glaucoma, macular degeneration, cataracts and cataract surgery, diabetes and diabetic retinopathy, dry eye, and laser eye surgery. Dr. Lawrence Zweibel and dr. Jeffrey Martin have been named "top Doctors New York Metro Area" by Castle Connolly for years and North Shore eye Care has been named a National Crystalens Center of Excellence by Bausch and Lomb. In cataract surgery, Dr. Martin, Dr. Zweibel and our newest associate Dr. John Mauro use advanced techniques including small incisions without stitches, no needles around the eyes and no eye patches after cataract surgery. Our patients stay in their own comfortable clothes and receive IV sedation so that the experience is a pleasant one. Our board certified surgeons do many hundred cataract operations each year and have done thousands over the last decade or more.

After removing the cataract, we replace the cloudy poorly functioning lens with a new intraocular lens implant or IOL. Dr. Martin and Dr. Zweibel specialize in accommodating implants like the Crystalens 5.0 and the Crystalens HD. We also use the multifocal lenses such as the restor, reZoom, and tecnis multifocal. Our patients have also enjoyed our use of the toric implant to reduce or eliminate the need for astigmatism. All of these premium implants are designed to reduce or eliminate the need for glasses and contact lenses. If a laser vision correction touch up is needed for the best result, we provide that at no charge using ilasik or bladeless custom lasik.

In Long Island in Nassau and Suffolk county, we see patients from Cold Spring harbor, huntington, commack, northport, centerport, greenlawn, dix hills, melville, deer park, plainview, woodbury, syosset, bethpage, bay shore, babylon, farmingdale, farmingville, massapequa, lindenhurst, sayville, islip, islandia, hauppauge, lake grove, bohemia, ronkonkoma, holtsville, holbrook, smithtown, nesconset, saint james, kings park, fort salonga, centereach, selden, coram, middle island, riverhead, ridge, mastic, moriches, yaphank, shirley, manorville, bellport, bayport, brookhaven, calverton, stony brook, setauket, port jefferson, shoreham, wading river, miller place, mt sinai, rocky point, jamesport, cutchogue, mattituck, southold, westhampton, eastport, southhampton, east hampton, hampton bays sag harbor, montauk, new york city, queens, brooklyn and many other towns.

The lasik surgeon and lasik doctors at North Shore eye Care in smithtown new york in long island have been performing lasik and laser vision correction for over 10 years on patients from Suffolk and Nassau County of Long Island. Dr. Jeffrey Martin and Dr. Lawrence Zweibel have been doing the best in ilasik bladeless custom lasik for years and only do the most advanced procedures. Dr. Martin and Dr. Zweibel perform hundreds of lasik vision correction laser eye surgery operations each year and have done thousands over the last decade. In lasik, we use Intralase to make a blade-free flap that is the thinnest, most accurate and safest possible. We then use Visx Customvue to create a wavemap or waveprint using wavescan that gives the most precise laser eye surgery result possible. Every patient that visits North Shore eye Care in smithtown new york gets a free consultation where you sit with one of our eye doctors, Dr. Sidney Martin, Dr. Lawrence Zweibel, Dr. Jeffrey Martin, or Dr. John Mauro to discuss your bladeless custom lasik options including prk, advanced surface ablation, epilasik and lasek. We routinely do corneal topography and corneal pachymetry to evaluate your unique visual needs and capability. Our staff is kind and courteous and our board certified eye doctors are the best in the field. Dr. Jeff Martin and Dr. Larry Zweibel have been named Top Doctors in the New York Metro Area for the last few years and North Shore eye care has been named a Crystalens National Center of Excellence in Cataract surgery by Bausch and Lomb. This translates into the best of eye care possible for all of our patients.

In Long Island, we see patients from riverhead, ridge, middle island, calverton, shirley, mastic, moriches, bellport, bayport, yaphank, manorville, brookhaven, patchogue, medford, shoreham, wading river, centereach, selden, coram, stony brook, setauket, port, jefferson, miller place, rocky point, mt sinai, jamesport, cutchogue, southold, mattituck, westhampton, southampton, east hampton, sag harbor, hampton bays, farmingdale, farmingville, islip, islandia, hauppauge, lake grove, bohemia, ronkonkoma, holtsville, holbrook, sayville, bay shore, babylon, massapequa, lindenhurst, deer park, dix hills, melville, plainview, bethpage, woodbury, syosset, huntington, cold spring harbor, commack, northport, centerport, greenlawn, smithtown, nesconset, st james, kings park, fort salonga, new york city, queens, brooklyn and many other towns.

A cataract is a clouding of the natural lens of the eye. When a cataract becomes sigificant enough to effect the quality of vision, we perform cataract surgery.During cataract surgery, our patients are comfortable and we use IV sedation for relaxation. We do not use stitches, needles around the eye or an eye patch and our cataract surgery is performed quickly without pain. We use digital controlled ultrasound called phacoemulsification to remove the defective cloudy lens or cataract from the eye. We then replace the natural lens with an implant designed to restore vision. Patients with Rheumatoid Arthritis, Lupus, Juvenile Arthritis and other autoimmune diseases unfortunately have accompanied ocular inflammatory diseases. In these patients, cataract surgery can be very complicated and thus need special attention from an experienced cataract surgeon who is fully trained in handling these situations. Dr. Mauro, who just joined our practice, is fully trained in handling many difficult cataract surgeries in patients with uveitis and ocular inflammatory disease. Our cataract doctors surgeons (Drs Jeff Martin, Larry Zweibel and John Mauro) also specialize in accommodating implants like the crystalens, Restor and Tecnis. For our patients with astigmatism, the Acrysof Toric lens eliminates astigmatism in most cases. If fine tuning is necessary with these premium implants, we perform ilasik bladeless custom lasik at no charge.

At North Shore Eye Care, we take care of all eye problems including macular degeneration, diabetic eye disease and retinopathy, lid problems, eye muscle disorders and we specialize in laser vision correction and cataract surgery. We do this in a caring and compassionate environment. That is why people travel from all over Long Island and New York City. We see patients from Shoreham, Wading river, riverhead, ridge, middle island, jamesport, cutchogue, mattituck, southold, calverton, manorville, shirley, mastic, moriches, yaphank, brookhaven, bellport, bayport, patchogue, medford, westhampton, eastport, southampton, east hampton, sag harbor, hampton bays, centereach, selden, coram, stony brook, setauket, port jefferson, mt sinai, miller place, rocky point, smithtown, nesconset, saint james, kings park, fort salonga, lake grove, hauppauge, bohemia, ronkonkoma, islip, islandia, holtsville, holbrook, sayville, lindenhurst, massapequa, bay shore, babylon, deer park, dix hills, melville, plainview, woodbury, syosset, bethpage, huntington, cold spring harbor, commack, northport, centerport, greenlawn, new york city and many other towns.

In Smithtown New York in Long Island, North Shore eye care has been at the forefront of ophthalmology and eye care since 1960 when the board certified ophthalmologist, Dr. Sidney Martin opened his practice. Over the years, Dr. Martin took care of patients with glaucoma, uveitis, cataract, macular degeneration, diabetes and diabetic retinopathy as well as laser eye surgery that came later. Dr. Jeffrey Martin and dr. Larry Zweibel continue to offer the best along with Dr. Sidney Martin and Dr. John Mauro, our newest associate. In advanced cataract surgery, our patients get to stay in their own comfortable clothes and we do cataract surgery in a surgery center that is specific to eye surgery. We use IV sedation and numbing eye drops for comfort. Cataract surgery is done in a few minutes without the use of needles around the eyes, eye patches, or stitches. Our patients do not feel pain rountinely and are able to return home to the comfort of their home the very same day. When we remove a cataract or cloudy lens from the eye, we replace it with an intraocular implant or IOL to restore vision. Our cataract doctors and cataract surgeons, Dr. Jeff Martin, Dr. Larry Zweibel, and dr. John Mauro specialize in the use of premium implants that give a patients near and far vision without the need for glasses and contact lenses. We are a Crystalens Center of Excellence which is a national recognition of our results with the crystalens implant. The Crystalens 5.0 and the Crystalens HD are examples of accommodating implants. We also use multifocal implants like the restor, rezoom and tecnis multifocal. Our patients have also enjoyed the Acrysof Toric implant to reduce or eliminate astigmatism in most cases.

In long island in Nassau and Suffolk Counties, we see patients from riverhead, ridge, calverton, shirley, mastic, moriches, yaphank, brookhaven, bellport, bayport, shoreham, wading river, centereach, selden coram, middle island, stony brook, setauket, port jefferson, miller place, mt sinai, rocky point, jamesport, cutchogue, mattituck, southold, westhampton eastport, southampton, east hampton, hampton bays, sag harbor, farmingdale, farmingville, islip, islandia, bohemia, ronkonkoma, hauppauge, lake grove, sayville, lindenhurst. bay shore, babylon, massapequa, smithtown, nesconset, saint james, kings park, fort salonga, huntington, commack, northport centerport, greenlawn, dix hills, melville, plainview, deer park, bethpage, syosset, woodbury, holtsville, holbrook, patchogue, medford, and many other towns.

Laser vision correction has been around for years and the board certified eye doctors and eye surgeons have seen the amazing developments that have come along with lasik laser eye surgery. At North Shore Eye Care in Smithtown New York, Dr. Jeffrey martin and dr. Larry Zweibel have been at the forefront of lasik laser vision correction for over 10 years and always give their patients the absolute best in bladeless custom lasik ilasik. As soon as you walk through our doors in Smithtown New york in Long Island, you will feel comfortable and confident that you have chosen the best place for lasik and custom laser vision correction surgery. Dr. Martin and Dr. Zweibel have been named Top Doctors in the New York Metro Area for several years and that has allowed them the recognition that they deserve. On your free lasik consultation, we do corneal topography and pachymetry that tells us about the shape and thickness of your cornea. One of our lasik doctors, Dr. Martin, Dr. Zweibel and most recently, Dr. John Mauro will examine you and let you know what is best for your vision. In some patients with thin or irregular corneas or just high prescriptions, custom surface ablation such as lasek, epilasik, or prk may be best. When it comes to lasik, we are all blade-free using Intralase to make the most precise and safest as well as thinnest flap for the best in safety. We then use Visx Customvue Wavescan to create a Wavemap or waveprint of your eye which is a custom fingerprint of your vision for the most accurate in lasik bladeless custom ilasik and laser vision correction. Our patients know that the treatment that they receive is the best lasik treatment and we have grown from those word of mouth referrals.

In Long Island in Suffolk and Nassau County, we see patients from plainview, woodbury, syosset, bethpage, dix hills, melville, deer park, cold spring harbor, lindenhurst, massapequa, sayville, bay shore, babylon, huntington, commack, northport, smithtown, nesconset, st james, kings park, fort salonga, islip, islandia, hauppauge, lake grove, bohemia, ronkonkoma, holtsville, holbrook, farmingdale, farmingville, patchogue, medford, bayport, bellport, brookhaven, yaphank, mastic, moriches, calverton, shirley, manorville, centereach, selden, coram, middle island, riverhead, ridge, stony brook, setauket, port jefferson, miller place, mt sinai, rocky point, shoreham, wading river, jamesport, cutchogue, mattituck, southold, westhampton, eastport, hampton bays, sag harbor, southampton, east hampton , amagansett, and new york city, queens, brooklyn.

ILasik is now available in the Long Island area. ILasik is a term that is used when all the new developments associated with Lasik are being utilized. It is the incorporation of all these elements used collectively that have made laser vision correction so effective. The new developments used with ILasik include the use of the Intralase, a laser that is able to create a safe flap on the corneal surface, thus eliminating the need for blades. Once the flap has been created a second laser then reshapes the remaining corneal bed. Flaps are popular because they allow for very quick healing. Healing that is so fast that most people are able to return to work the next day with 20/20 vision and often better. Other elements of ILasik involve the use of Customvue which analyzes and treats 9 components to a person's vision while glasses only correct 2 and contacts often only correct 1. As a result people often get better uncorrected vision after laser than they previously had with glasses or contacts. Other important elements of ILasik include tracking devices that can follow eye movements while the laser reshapes your eye as well as iris registration that can identify a torsional shift in your eye, thus giving precise alignment for treatment of astigmatism.
While not everyone is a candidate for lasik, many of these people can still undergo an alternate technique called photorefractive keratectomy or PRK. Similar techniques to PRK are known as epilasik and lasek. When PRK is performed no flap is created. In order to reshape the cornea with this method the epithelium or clear cells on the surface of the cornea must be removed. It often takes 3 to 5 days before these cells grow back, thus the slower recovery with PRK. The doctors at NSEYE perform ILasik and PRK and have been serving patients on Long Island for almost 50 years. Drs. Lawrence Zweibel and Jeffrey Martin have been recognized collectively for almost 10 years in Castle Connelly's guide to Top Doctors in the New York Metro area.

We serve patients the Hamptons, Riverhead, Mattituck, East Shoreham, Jamesport, Manorville, Ridge, Mastic Beach, Mastic Beach, Shirley, Middle Island, Patchogue, Coram, Yaphank, Holbrook, Lake Grove, Smithtown, St James, Brentwood, Centerreach, Stonybrook, Dix Hills, Northport, Kingspark, Huntington, Beth Page, Hicksville, Hempstead, Glen Cove, Port Jefferson, Port Washington, Long Beach and many other towns not mentioned.

In Smithtown New York in Long Island, North Shore Eye Care has always been the obvious choice in laser vision correction and cataract surgery. Dr. Sidney Martin, a board certified eye doctor and eye surgeon, started North Shore Eye Care in Long Island in 1960. He has always done his best for his patients with a warm and caring manner that earned him an excellent reputation. Dr. Jeffrey Martin and Dr. Lawrence Zweibel continue that tradition with giving the best in ilasik bladeless custom lasik and advanced cataract surgery.

Cataract surgery at North Shore Eye Care in Smithtown New York is performed by board certified eye doctors and eye surgeons, Dr. Martin and Dr. Zweibel. Both of our cataract surgeons have been recognized as "Top Doctors: New York Metro Area" by Castle Connolly ltd. Our cataract patients stay in their own comfortable clothes and return home the very same day. We use IV sedation to calm your nerves and then use eye drops for anesthesia of the eye. There are no needles around the eyes and we rarely use an eye patch so that you can start using your eye right away. Some of our seniors like the fact that they do not need an eye patch for a day. The cataract or cloudy lens is removed through a small incision using phacoemulsification or gentle computer controlled ultrasound. We then use an intraocular implant lens or IOL to restore your vision. Dr. Jeff Martin and Dr. Larry Zweibel specialize in accommodating implants like the crystalens 5.0 and the crystalens HD. We also use multifocal lenses like the restor, rezoom, and tecnis multifocal. The Acrysof Toric implant corrects astigmatism. All of these premium lenses allow for more range of vision without the use of glasses or contact lenses. North Shore Eye Care has been named a National Crystalens Center of Excellence.

In Long Island New York in Suffolk and Nassau County, we see patients from centereach, selden, coram, middle island, riverhead, ridge, stony brook, setauket, port jefferson, shoreham, wading river, miller place, mt sinai, rocky point, yaphank, shirley, mastic, shirley, bellport, bayport, brookhaven, manorville, patchogue, medford, calverton, jamesport, cutchogue, mattituck, southold, westhampton, southampton, east hampton, sag harbor, hampton bays, farmingdale, farmingville, islip, islandia, hauppauge, lake grove, bohemia, ronkonkoma, holbrook, holtsville, sayville, bay shore, babylon, lindenhurst, massapequa, smithtown, nesconset, saint james, kings park, fort salonga, greenlawn, centerport, dix hills, melville, deer park, bethpage, plainview, woodbury, syosset, huntington, commack, northport, cold spring harbor, queens, brooklyn, and new york city.

Top Doctors: New York Metro Area is a text put out by Castle Connolly one time a year. Castle Connolly is a medical research firm that finds the top ten percent to doctors including eye doctors and eye surgeons. A doctor can not pay to get in the book. Selections are made by asking other doctors who they would use and surveying for top credentials. Dr. Sidney Martin, the founder of North shore Eye Care in Smithtown New York in Long Island was included in Top Doctors for years and Dr. Jeffrey Martin and Dr. Zweibel have been currently included in Top Doctors for the past several years. They are proud of this accomplishment because it highlights their comittment to excellence. In ilasik bladeless custom lasik, Dr. Martin and Dr. Zweibel perform the best in laser eye surgery in order to get their patients the best results. Dr. Martin makes all flaps as the first part of lasik using Intralase, a blade-free laser that makes the safest and most precise flaps. We then use Visx Customvue that uses wavescan to get a custom fingerprint of each patients eye. This Wavemap or Waveprint is then lasered into the eye in laser eye surgery for the best result including automatic centering and tracking as well as iris registration. In iris registration, the laser vision correction laser automatically locks on the the pinpoint areas of each patient's iris for exact centration. All of these points as well as excellent customer service and a real sense of caring is what makes Dr. Martin and Dr. Zweibel as well as North Shore Eye Care in Smithtown New York so popular in lasik and advanced surface ablation like prk, epilasik and lasek.

North Shore eye Care is proud to announce the addition of Dr. John Mauro, a specialist in Uveitis and intraocular inflammation as well as cataract surgery and laser vision correction.

In Long Island in Nassau and Suffolk County, we see patients from Smithtown, nesconset, saint james, kings park, fort salonga, islip, islandia, lake grove, hauppauge, bohemia, ronkonkoma, holtsville, holbrook, farmingdale, farmingville, patchogue, medford, sayville, bay shore, babylon, lindenhurst, massapequa, dix hills, melville, deer park, plainview, bethpage, woodbury, syosset, cold spring harbor, huntington, commack, northport, centerport, greenlawn, centereach, selden, coram, middle island, ridge, riverhead, miller place, rocky point, mt sinai, stony brook, setauket, port jefferson, shoreham, wading river, mastic, moriches, yaphank, shirley, calverton, manorville, eastport, westhampton, southampton, east hampton, hampton bays, sag harbor, cutchogue, mattituck, jamesport, southhold, new york city, brooklyn, queens.

The board certified eye doctors and eye surgeons at North Shore Eye Care in Smithtown New York in Long Island have been perfecting the cataract surgery treatment since Dr. Sidney Martin, the founder of North Shore Eye Care, starting his practice in 1960. A lot has changed over the years, but the underlying dedication toward excellence in eye care and eye surgery has remained with us at our Smithtown new york practice. Dr. Jeffrey Martin and Dr. Larry Zweibel, both board certified and Top Doctors in the New York Metro Area by Castle Connolly ltd, perform the best in cataract surgery in a practice that does about one thousand cataract surgery procedures each year.

In cataract surgery, a gentle computer controlled ultrasound called phacoemulsification is used to remove the cloudy or defective lens of the eye through a 2 millimeter incision. Our patients stay in their own clothes and relax with the assistance of IV sedation. We do not use stitches, an eye patch or needles around the eye in cataract surgery and the surgery is done quickly and without pain. In cataract surgery, the cataract is then replaced with an intraocular lens implant to restore vision. There are several types of implants and Dr. Martin and Dr. Zweibel specialize in the best implants including the accommodating implants, Crystalens 5.0 and Crystalens HD. We also use Multifocal implants like the restor, rezoom, and tecnis multifocal. Dr. Martin and Dr. Zweibel have also used the Acrysof Toric implant to reduce or eliminate astigmatism for several years with excellent results. For those patients that need an enhancement for best results, we perform bladeless custom lasik ilasik laser vision correction for no charge on our premium lens patients.

Our new associate, Dr. John Mauro is a general ophthalmologist with specialty training in uveits, intraocular inflammation, cataract surgery and lasik laser vision correction. He is well trained and an excellent eye doctor and eye surgeon here in Smithtown New York.

In long island in suffolk and nassau counties, we see patients from smithtown, nesconset, saint james, kings park, fort salonga, cold spring harbor, plainview, woodbury, syosset, bethpage, dix hills, melville, deer park, lindenhurst, massapequa, sayville, bay shore, babylon, islip, islandia, farmingdale, farmingville, bohemia, ronkonkoma, hauppauge, lake grove, patchogue, medford, huntington, commack, northport, centerport, greenlawn, centereach, selden, coram, riverhead, ridge, middle island, stony brook, setauket, port, jefferson, miller place, mt sinai, rocky point, calverton, mastic, moriches, yaphank, brookhaven, bayport, bellport, manorville, shirley, eastport, westhampton, east hampton, hampton bays, quogue, southampton, sag harbor, calverton, southold, mattituck, cutchogue, nissequogue, head of the harbor, poquott, belle terre, sound beach, queens, brooklyn, new york city, manhattan, old field, and many other towns.

When it comes to lasik laser eye surgery in Long Island New York, North Shore eye Care in Smithtown New York provides the best in lasik laser vision correction and bladeless custom lasik. From the moment you walk through our doors, our professional and compassionate staff takes excellent care of you and answers all of your questions. In the free lasik work up, we get corneal topography and pachymetry measurements as well as your prescription so that our board certified eye doctors and eye surgeons, Dr. Jeffrey Martin and Dr. Lawrence Zweibel can review your options with you. On the day of the lasik laser eye surgery consultation, our eye doctors will tell you if you are a good candidate and review the procedure with you so that you are well informed and comfortable with your decsion on ilasik or maybe a bladeless custom surface ablation like prk, epilasik, or lasek. Dr. Jeff Martin and Dr. Larry Zweibel do many hundred lasik procedures each year and they have both performed thousands of lasik procedures over the last ten years. We do only the best in laser vision correction including bladeless or blade-free lasik using Intralase, a bladeless laser that makes the most precise and safest flaps possible. We then use Visx Customvue using Wavescan to obtain a waveprint or wavemap so that each laser eye surgery is completely customized. Your fingerprint is unique to you as is your visual system. Dr. Zweibel and Dr. Martin have been recognized as Top Doctors in the New york Metro Area by Castle Connolly putting them among the top ten percent of doctors in our region.

North Shore Eye Care recently added Dr. John Mauro to their wonderful team of excellent physicians. Dr. Mauro specializes in complete eye care and uveitis or intraocular inflammation. He trained in advanced cataract surgery and laser vision correction as well as general eye care.

In Long Island New York, we see patients from suffolk and nassau counties including smithtown, nesconset, saint james, kings park, fort salonga, commack, northport, centerport, greenlawn, cold spring harbor, plainview, bethpage, woodbury, syosset, deer park, dix hills, melville, massapequa, lindenhurst, sayville, bay shore, babylon, farmingdale, farmingville, islip, islandia, bohemia, ronkonkoma, hauppauge, lake grove, holtsville, holbrook, patchogue, medford, centereach, selden, coram, middle island, riverhead, ridge, stony brook, setauket, port jefferson, shoreham, wading river, miller place, mt sinai, rocky point, calverton, shirley, manorville, mastic, moriches, yaphank, brookhaven, bellport, bayport, eastport, westhampton, east hampton, sag harbor, hampton bays, southampton, jamesport, cutchogue, mattituck, southold.

North Shore Eye Care has been named a Crystalens Cataract Surgery Center of Excellence by bausch and lomb, the company that manufactures crystalens 5.0 and Crystalens HD. Crystalens is a special accommodating implant that allows patients to see far and near after cataract surgery without the use of glasses and contact lenses. Dr. Jeffrey Martin and Dr. Lawrence Zweibel, both board certified eye surgeons and eye doctors, were pleased with this designation because their efforts in the superior results of using Crystalens had been recognized. In Smithtown New York in Long Island, Dr. Jeff Martin and Dr. Larry Zweibel have among the most experience with the specialty intraocular implants including the multifocal implants like the Restor, Rezoom and Tecnis Multifocal. We also enjoy success with Acrysof Toric implants that reduce or eliminate astigmatism. For those patients that desire the premium result, we offer zero percent financing through Care Credit to help finance these wonderful lenses.

In cataract surgery, the cloudy or defective natural lens of the eye is removed using gentle computer controlled ultrasound called phacoemulsification. Our Cataract doctors and cataract surgeons are able to do this through a very small incision using only eye drops for anesthesia. Our patients stay in their own comfortable clothes and recieve IV sedation for relaxation. We do not use stitches, eye patches or needles around the eyes in most cases. Dr. Martin and Dr. Zweibel have been recognized in Top Doctors in the New york Metro Area for the last several years for their expertise in cataract surgery. The founder of North Shore Eye Care in Long Island New York, Dr. Sidney Martin is amazed by the advances in cataract surgery although he no longer performs cataract surgery himself. Dr. John Mauro, our newest cataract specialist, brings the newest ideas and techniques to North Shore Eye.

In Long island New York in Suffolk and Nassau County, we see patients from Cold Spring Harbor, Huntington, Commack, Northport, Centerport, Greenlawn, dix hills, melville, deer park, massapequa, lindenhurst, sayville, bay shore, babylon, plainview, woodbury, syosset, bethpage, farmingdale, farmingville, islip, islandia, bohemia, ronkonkoma, holtsville, holbrook, hauppauge, lake grove, patchogue, medford, brookhaven, yaphank, bayport, bellport, mastic, moriches, shirley, manorville, calverton, smithtown, nesconset, saint james, kings park, fort salonga, centereach, selden, coram, middle island, ridge, riverhead, stony brook, setauket, port, jefferson, miller place, mount sinai rocky point, shoreham, wading river, cutchogue, jamesport, mattituck, southold, eastport, westhampton, east hampton, hampton bays, sag harbor, southampton, flanders, and many other towns.

In Smithtown New York in Long Island, North Shore Eye Care has been around since Dr. Sidney Martin, a board certified eye doctor and eye surgeon, founded the eye care practice. Since 1960, North Shore eye Care has been providing care for a variety of eye health concerns including diabetes and diabetic eye disease, glaucoma, macular degeneration, cataracts and laser eye surgery including ilasik bladeless custom lasik. Dr. Jeffrey Martin and dr. Larry Zweibel continued the practice of excellence in eye care. Both Dr. Martin and Dr. Zweibel are board certified and have been included in "Top Doctors: New York Metro Area" by Castle Connolly for the last few years. Castle Connolly is a medical research company that finds the top doctors in each region by specialty.

In lasik laser vision correction, our board certified top doctors do only the best procedures available. We do all bladefree or bladeless flaps using Intralase. Intralase makes a blade free flap in the safest and most precise method possible. We then use Visx Customvue which uses wavescan to create a wavemap or waveprint. This waveprint is like a fingerprint of your eye and that precise pattern is lasered into the eye during bladeless custom lasik automatically centering and tracking and also using iris registration for exact centration. Laser eye surgery and lasik using the ilasik platform is the best lasik you can have. Dr. Jeff Martin and Dr. Larry Zweibel are proud to offer the best technology to each of their patients in a warm and caring environment. From the moment you walk through the doors at North Shore Eye Care in Smithtown New York, you feel like part of our family. Our doctors do all of the pre and postoperative exams giving you the best chance at a perfect result.

In Long Island New York in Suffolk and Nassau county, we see patients from smithtown, nesconset, saint james, kings park, fort salonga, islip, islandia, bohemia, ronkokoma, holtsville, holbrook, sayville, lindenhurst, bay shore, babylon, massapequa, patchogue, medford, deer park, dix hills, melville, huntington, commack, northport, centerport, greenlawn, plainview, bethpage, cold spring harbor, woodbury, syosset, centereach, selden, coram, middle island, riverhead, ridge, stony brook, setauket, port jefferson, shoreham, wading river, rocky point mt sinai, miller place, mastic, moriches, yaphank, brookhaven, bayport, bellport, manorville, eastport, westhampton, east hampton, sag harbor, southampton, hampton bays, calverton, cutchogue, jamesport, mattituck, southold, and new york city.

There is a special eye care practice in Smithtown New York in Long Island that have been at the forefront of eye care and ophthalmology since 1960 when Dr. Sidney Martin, a board certified eye surgeon founded the practice. North Shore Eye Care was designed to take care of people with a wide variety of eye problems including glaucoma, cataracts, diabetes and diabetic eye problems, macular degeneration and laser eye surgery including bladeles custom lasik. Dr. Jeffrey Martin and Dr. Lawrence Zweibel, both board certified and considered a "Top Doctor: New York Metro Area" by Castle Connolly ltd, specialize in advanced cataract surgery and lasik laser vision correction. They pride themselves in doing the very best for every patient that walks into our Smithtown New York office in Long Island. Our newest associate, Dr. John Mauro also specializes in cataract surgery and laser vision correction like ilasik bladeless custom lasik and also is fellowship trained in uveitis.

In cataract surgery, our patients are able to keep their own comfortable clothes on and we use IV sedation for relaxation. We do not use stitches, needles around the eye or an eye patch and our cataract surgery is performed quickly without pain. We use fine computer controlled ultrasound called phacoemulsification to remove the defective cloudy lens or cataract from the eye. We then replace the natural lens with an implant designed to restore vision. Our cataract doctors and cataract surgeons specialize in accommodating implants like the crystalens 5.0 and Crystalens HD and North Shore Eye Care has been named a Crystalens Center of Excellence by Bausch and Lomb. Our board certified cataract surgeons also use multifocal technology such as the Restor, Rezoom and Tecnis Multifocal when one of these lenses is the best choice. For our patients with astigmatism, the Acrysof Toric lens eliminates astigmatism in most cases. If fine tuning is necessary with these premium implants, we perform ilasik bladeless custom lasik at no charge.

In Long Island in Suffolk and Nassau County, we see patients from Shoreham, Wading river, riverhead, ridge, middle island, jamesport, cutchogue, mattituck, southold, calverton, manorville, shirley, mastic, moriches, yaphank, brookhaven, bellport, bayport, patchogue, medford, westhampton, eastport, southampton, east hampton, sag harbor, hampton bays, centereach, selden, coram, stony brook, setauket, port jefferson, mt sinai, miller place, rocky point, smithtown, nesconset, saint james, kings park, fort salonga, lake grove, hauppauge, bohemia, ronkonkoma, islip, islandia, holtsville, holbrook, sayville, lindenhurst, massapequa, bay shore, babylon, deer park, dix hills, melville, plainview, woodbury, syosset, bethpage, huntington, cold spring harbor, commack, northport, centerport, greenlawn, new york city and many other towns.

Cataract surgery has become very sophisticated and high tech in the last few years, while at the same time becoming much easier for patients to undergo. It is no longer necessary to go through combersome admitting procedures at hospitals as cataract surgery can usually be performed in an outpatient setting. This means less medical testing with reduced time and expense for surgery. At Northshore Eye Care board certified ophthalmic surgeons who are also listed in Castle Connelly's top Doctors on Long Island perform operations only using the latest state of the art equipment used in cataract surgery. This includes using the newest intraocular lenses used to replace one's cataract. These lenses often give better vision than before the cataract developed. This is because in addition to removing the cataract that clouds the vision the eye can be put in excellent focus often without the need for spectacles. There is a vast array of lenses that can do this ranging from toric lenses that correct astigmatism, multifocal lenses that give simultaneous near and distance vision to accommative lenses like the newly developed Crystalen HD lens. Interestingly, because of our physicians, North Shore Eye Care has been named a Bausch and Lomb Crystalens Center of Excellence.

At North Shore Eye Care patients are served from all over Long Island and New York including Mattituck, Riverhead, Southhold, the Hamptons, Mastic Beach, Manorville, Coram, Middle Island, Centereach, St. James, Smithtown, Hauppauge, Dix Hills, Brentwood, Beth Page, Dix Hills, Hicksville, Westbury, Port Washingon, Valley Stream, Hewlett, Long Beach, Sea Cliff, Manorhaven, Elmont, and Glen Cove.

In Smithtown New York in Long Island, the eye doctors and eye surgeons at North Shore Eye Care have been performing the latest and best in ilasik and lasik laser eye surgery for over 10 years and have enjoyed a satisfied patient base for the past 50 years. Dr. Jeffrey Martin and Dr. Lawrence Zweibel, both board certified and Top Doctors in the New York Metro Area by Castle connolly ltd, currently do all bladeless custom lasik with iris registration which is the most advanced laser vision correction procedure available. Dr. John Mauro, our newest associate also is experienced in ilasik bladeless custom lasik as well as cataract surgery and general eye care like the care of glaucoma, cataracts, macular degeneration, diabetes and diabetic retinopathy as well as all eye problems of children and adults. Dr. Sidney Martin, the board certified founder of North Shore Eye Care still works part time at 80 years of age because he feels so passionate about eye health.

Lasik laser vision correction is a process that the eye is reshaped using gentle laser pulses so that patients with nearsightedness, farsightedness, and astigmatism can be free from glasses and contact lenses. We use the Intralase blade free laser to make a thin flap in the superficial layers of the cornea. We then use Visx Customvue that makes a waveprint or wavemap of your unique visual system that then automatically centers and tracks during the laser eye surgery procedure. Iris registration is the process in which the laser locks on and centers for the best centration possible in lasik laser vision correction. Dr. Martin and Dr. Zweibel use all of this wonderful technology every week to give their patients the best vision possible. At North Shore Eye Care in Smithtown Long Island New York, the eye doctor or eye surgeon performs all of the examinations as well.

In Long Island in Suffolk and Nassau County, we see patients from Smithtown, nesconset, saint james, kings park, islip, islandia, bohemia, ronkonkoma, holtsville, holbrook, farmingville, farmingdale, patchogue, medford, sayville, lindenhurst, massapequa, bay shore, babylon, dix hills, melville, deer park, huntington, cold spring harbor, commack, northport, centerport, greenlawn, plainview, bethpage, woodbury, syosset, stony brook, setauket, port jefferson, shoreham, wading river, centereach, selden, coram, middle island, riverhead, ridge, miller place, mt sinai, rocky point, mastic, moriches, yaphank, manorville, shirley, brookhaven, bayport, bellport, jamesport, calverton, cutchogue, mattituck, southold, eastport, westhampton, east hampton, sag harbor, sag harbor, hampton bays, new york city, and many other towns.

Cataract surgery has improved dramatically over the years. A cataract is the natural lens of the eye that has become cloudy. Usually this is an aging process, but occasionally occurs in younger individuals. About a hundred years ago nothing could be done about this condition. The first attempt was a "couching" procedure. A sharp instrument was introduced into the eye and, using this primitive method, the lens was pushed into the bottom of the eye. This got the lens away from the line of sight. Without a lens in place the vision was very blurry, but the opacified lens was removed from the optical axis. As mentioned above, this was a very primitive method, but without anesthesia and proper surgical instruments, it was the only procedure possible. As anesthesia and surgical instrumentation improved, it became possible to remove the lens. Using anesthesia, a surgical incision was made in the eye, the lens was grasped and removed from the eye, and then the incision was closed with stitches. This procedure left the eye without a lens and cataract glasses that looked like "coke-bottles" were then necessary. As cataract procedures improved, microscopes were used so that "micro-incisions" replaced the old surgical incisions and in most cases stitches were no longer necessary. Also, using the natural membranes of the eye for positioning, lens implants were introduced at the time of surgery, eliminating the need for the "coke-bottle" cataract glasses. Drs. Lawrence Zweibel, Jeffrey Martin and John Mauro, at North Shore Eye Care, are all trained in the latest techniques of surgery, especially cataract and refractive surgery. With the latest techniques, the anesthesia consists usually of only eye drops, micro-incisions are performed, and lens implants are used. The recovery is fast and "coke-bottle" glasses are a thing of the past. At Northshore Eye Care, all medical and surgical aspects of eye care can be evaluated. Northshore Eye Care services Smithtown, Commack, Hauppauge, St, James, Lake Grove, Nesconset, Centereach, Selden, Coram, Brentwood, Deer Park, and all the surrounding areas. Drs. Sidney Martin, Lawrence Zweibel, Jeffrey Martin, and John Mauro are all board certified and eligible ophthalmologists and will strive to keep up with the latest developments and care in the field of ophthalmology. Northshore Eye Care has been taking care of the eye problems of the patients of Suffolk County for over 40 years.

A Cataract is a clouding of the natural lens of the eye. As we age, the natural lens of the eye becomes harder and eventually starts to cloud up and become difficult to see through. A cataract can happen at an early age or even as a congenital eye problem, something that you are born with. In most cases, a cataract develops slowly as we age and when it interferes with vision, we consider cataract surgery to improve vision. At North Shore eye Care in Smithtown New York in Long Island, our board certified eye doctors and eye surgeons perform the very best techniques in cataract surgery including using no stich small incision cataract surgery without the use of needles around the eyes or eye patches. Our patients stay in their own clothes and get to return to the comfort of their homes the very same day. Because our board certified eye surgeons, Dr. Jeffrey Martin and Dr. Larry Zweibel do not use eye patches, our patients are able to see right away.

In cataract surgery, the cloudy lens of the eye is removed through a small incision using computer controlled ultrasound called phacoemulsification. Dr. Jeff Martin or Dr. Larry Zweibel then use one of several intraocular lens implants or IOLs to restore the best vision possible. We specialize in accommodating implants Crystalens 5.0 and Crystalens HD which are implants that allow our patients to see well far and near without glasses or contact lenses. We also use multifocal implants like the Restor, Rezoom, and Tecnis Multifocal that also allow far and near vision without glasses or contact lenses. Dr. Martin and Dr. Zweibel have great experience with the Acrysof Toric lens that reduces or eliminates astigmatism. North Shore Eye Care has been deemed a Crystalens Center of Excellence and Dr. Jeff Martin and Dr. Larry Zweibel have been included in Top Doctors of the New York Metro Area by Castle connolly for the last several years.

In Long Island New york in suffolk and Nassau Counties, we see patients from riverhead, ridge, Calverton, manorville, shirley, mastic, moriches, yaphank, brookhaven, bayport, bellport, patchogue, medford, jamesport, cutchogue, mattituck, southold, westhampton, east hampton, southampton, hampton bays, sag harbor, middle island, shoreham, wading river, centereach, selden, coram, stony brook, setauket, port jefferson, miller place, mt sinai, rocky point, islip, islandia bohemia, ronkonkoma, farmingdale, farmingville, holtsville, holbrook, bay shore, babylon, sayville, lindenhurst, massapequa, hauppauge, lake grove, dix hills, melville, deer park, plainview, bethpage, woodbury, syosset, huntington, commack, northport, centerport, greenlawn, cold spring harbor, smithtown, nesconset, saint james, kings park, fort salonga and many other towns.

Our eye doctors and eye surgeons at North Shore Eye Care in Smithtown New York in Long Island are committed to giving you the very best in eye care including lasik laser vision correction such as ilasik bladeless custom lasik. Our board certified eye doctors, Dr. Sidney Martin, Dr. Larry Zweibel and Dr. Jeffrey Martin have been providing the best in care for cataract, glaucoma, macular degeneration, retinal problems, diabetes and diabetic retinopathy for many years and for the last ten years, laser eye surgery for the correction of nearsightedness, farsightedness, and astigmatism has been a specialty area for North Shore Eye Care. Our newest associate, Dr. John Mauro, is excited to join such a vibrant group of eye surgeons and looks forward to continuing the tradition of excellence in eye surgery and eye care.

In lasik, Dr. Jeff Martin and Dr. Larry Zweibel, both board certified and both selected to "Top Doctors: New York Metro Area" by Castle Connolly for the last few years, take pride in delivering only the best to their patients. All lasik is bladeless or blade-free using Intralase which is a bladeless laser to make the most precise and safest flap as the first step in lasik. We then use Visx Customvue which makes a waveprint or wavemap through the use of Wavescan so that we are lasering a unique custom laser vision correction into each patient's eye. The laser automatically centers and automatically tracks and uses iris registration for the best centration possible. For those patients that do not qualify for lasik due to thin corneas, high prescription, or irregular cornea, we also perform custom surface ablation like lasek, epilasik, or prk where no flap is made during the lasik procedure. In the surface ablation procedures, healing takes a bit longer, but the final visual result is equivlent.

In Long Island New York, in Suffolk and Nassau county, we see patients from Huntington, Commack, Northport, Greenlawn, Centerport, Dix Hills, Melville, Deer Park, Bay Shore, Babylon, Lindenhurst, Sayville, Massapequa, Plainview, Bethpage, Woodbury, Syosset, Ronkonkoma, Bohemia, Farmingdale, Farmingville, hauppauge, lake grove, holtsville, holbrook, Islip, Islandia, Smithtown, Nesconset, Saint James, Kings Park, fort Salonga, Cold Spring harbor, Centereach, Selden, Coram, Middle island, Riverhead, Ridge, Miller Place, Rocky Point, Mt Sinai, Shoreham, Wading River, Stony Brook, Setauket, Port jefferson, Calverton, Shirley, manorville, yaphank, Bayport, Bellport, mastic, moriches, Brookhaven, patchogue, Medford, Jamesport, Mattituck, Cutchogue, Southold, Eastport, Westhampton, Southampton, East Hampton, Hampton Bays, Sag Harbor, new York city, Nissequogue, head of the harbor, poquott, belle terre, sound beach, old field and many other towns.

The eye doctors and eye surgeons at North Shore eye care in Smithtown New York in Long Island are committed to the very best for their patients when it comes to cataract surgery. In our Long Island office, Dr. Jeffrey Martin and Dr. Lawrence Zweibel are both board certified and have both been named Top Doctor in the New York Metro Area by Castle Connolly for several years. This highlights their committment to patient care including eye care for cataracts, macular degeneration, glaucoma, diabetes and diabetic retinopathy, retinal problems, total eye care for children and adults. Dr. Sidney Martin, the founder of North Shore Eye Care and Dr. John Mauro, our newest associate share the views for the best in eye care.

When is comes to cataract surgery, we use the latest techniques and technology. Our patients stay in their own comfortable clothes and we use IV sedation for relaxation. We then use eye drops to numb the eye and remove the cloudy lens of the eye or cataract using gentle computer controlled ultrasound called phacoemulsification. We do not use needles around the eye, eye patches or stitches in most cases. When is comes to replacement implant lenses or IOLs that are a part of every cataract surgery, we use the best in accommodating lenses like the crystalens 5.0 and the crystalens HD. As a matter of fact, bausch and lomb has named North Shore Eye Care a Crystalens Center of Excellence. We also use the multifocal technology like the Restor, Rezoom, and tecnis multifocal and the Acrysof Toric lens to reduce or eliminate astigmatism. All of these premium lenses are designed to make our patients less dependent or independent of glasses and contact lenses.

In Long Island New York, we see patients from Smithtown, Nesconset, saint james, kings park, islip, islandia, bohemia, hauppauge, lake grove, ronkonkoma, holtsville, holbrook, farmingdale, farmingville, patchogue, medford, sayville, lindenhurst, bay shore, babylon, massapequa, huntington, commack, northport, greenlawn, centerport, dix hills, deer park, melville, bethpage, plainview, woodbury, syosset, centereach, selden, coram, middle island, ridge, riverhead, stony brook, setauket, port jefferson, miller place, mt sinai, rocky point, shoreham, wading river, yaphank, shirley, mastic, moriches, brookhaven, bellport, bayport, manorville, eastport, westhampton,southampton, east hampton, sag harbor, hampton bays, cutchogue, mattituck, southold, jamesport, and many other towns.

In Smithtown New York in Long Island, North Shore Eye Care has gained a reputation of always performing the best procedures. Dr. Sidney Martin founded North Shore Eye Care in 1960 with the desire to provide the best in eye care to the Long Island New York community including taking care of eye problems such as glaucoma, cataract, macular degeneration, diabetes and diabetic retinopathy. As the years went by and Dr. Lawrence Zweibel joined the eye care practice and later, his son Dr. Jeffrey Martin, North Shore Eye Care has continued in the line of excellence. Our board certified eye doctors and eye surgeons provide the best in lasik laser vision correction and laser eye surgery. We do all bladeless or blade-free lasik and all Customvue customized lasik using the Visx Laser and the Intralase laser. We make the flap which is the first step in lasik by using Intralase, the most precise and safest way to make a flap. We then use Customvue with wavescan to make a Waveprint or Wavemap and automatically center and track the lasik laser eye surgery using iris registration, which uses a patient's iris landmarks to center the laser. Dr. Jeffrey Martin and Dr. Larry Zweibel have been included in "Top Doctors: New York Metro Area" by Castle Connolly for the last several years and North Shore Eye Care has been deemed a Crystalens Center of Excellence by Bausch and Lomb.

We are excited to announce the arrival of Dr. John Mauro, the newest addition to the North Shore Eye Care family. Dr. Mauro is well trained including a fellowship in uveitis and ocular inflammation with Dr. Stephen Foster, a world authority in Boston. He also did a fellowship in laser vision correction which included work with ilasik, bladeless custom lasik, lasek, epilasik, and advanced surface ablation, or prk.

In Long Island New York, we see patients from Smithtown, Nesconset, Saint James, Kings Park, Fort Salonga, Islip, Islandia, Hauppauge, Lake Grove, Bohemia, holtsville, holbrook, sayville, bay shore, babylon, massapequa, lindenhurst, patchogue, medford, dix hills, melville, deer park, Plainview, Bethpage, Syosset, Woodbury, Cold Spring Harbor, Huntington, commack, northport, greenlawn, centerport, centereach, selden, coram, middle island, riverhead, ridge, stony brook, setauket, port jefferson, miller place, mt sinai, rocky point, shoreham, wading river, calverton, shirley mastic, moriches, yaphank, brookhaven, bayport, bellport, eastport, westhampton, east hampton, sag harbor, southampton, sag harbor, hampton bays, jamesport, cutchogue, mattituck, southold, and many other towns.

A cataract is the natural clouding of the lens of the eye. The lens of the eye becomes cloudy in most people as a natural part of aging. Some people get cataracts earlier and diabetics and smokers among other risk factors tend to make cataracts progress faster. Some people are born with cataracts as well and congenital cataracts are particularly difficult to diagnose and treat in some cases. Regardless of age, when a cataract causes blurred vision, glare, haloes, and difficulty with daily life activities, it is time to consider cataract surgery.

At North Shore Eye Care in Smithtown New York in Long Island, Dr. Jeffrey Martin and Dr. Lawrence Zweibel specialize in cataract surgery and ilasik which is bladeless custom lasik laser vision correction. Cataract surgery is performed through a small incision and is usually painless. Our patients get to stay in their own comfortable clothes and receive IV sedation to relax. We then use eye drop anesthesia to numb the eye. In our cataract surgery procedure, Dr. Martin and Dr. Zweibel, both board certified, rarely use stitches, needles around the eye or even an eye patch. Our patients are able to see that same day.

When is comes to replacement intraocular lenses or IOLs, our cataract doctors and cataract surgeons specialize in accommodating lenses such as Crystalens 5.0 and Crystalens HD. We also use multifocal lenses such as the Restor 3.0, Restor 4.0 and the Tecnis multifocal. The Alcon Acrysof Toric is a specialty implant that reduces or eliminates astigmatism in most cases. If a small adjustment is needed for best vision following a premium implant, our cataract doctors do that at no charge using the best in technology such as bladeless custom lasik. When it comes to cataract surgery, North Shore Eye Care is your cataract surgery practice. Dr. Martin and Dr. Zweibel have been voted into "Top Doctors: New York Metro Area" by Castle Connolly and North Shore Eye Care has been deemed a Crystalens Center of Excellence.

In Long Island New York in Suffolk and Nassau county, we see patients from Riverhead, Ridge, Calverton, Patchogue, Medford, shoreham, Wading River, Shirley, Mastic, Moriches, yaphank, Brookhaven, Bellport, Bayport, Sayville, Babylon, Bay Shore, Lindenhurst, Massapequa, Jamesport, Cutchogue, mattituck, southold, westhampton, southampton, east hampton, hampton bays, sag harbor, centereach, selden, coram, middle Island, stony brook, setauket, port jefferson, miller place, mt sinai, rocky point, islip, islandia, hauppauge, lake grove, bohemia, holtsville, holbrook, farmingdale, farmingville, smithtown, nesconset, st james, kings park, fort salonga, commack, northport, centerport, greenlawn, huntington, cold spring harbor, dix hills, melville, deer park, plainview, bethpage, syosset, woodbury and even New York City.

Bladless custom lasik or ilasik is the best way to have lasik around the world. When is comes to laser vision correction or laser eye surgery to correct nearsightedness, farsightedness or astigmatism, North Shore Eye Care in Smithtown New York in Long Island has the best eye doctors and eye surgeons that are only willing to do the very best procedures. In lasik, the first step is to make a bladeless flap in the superficial layers of the cornea. This is done only by Intralase by Dr. Jeffrey Martin and Dr. Lawrence Zweibel, the two board certified eye doctors and eye surgeons at North Shore Eye Care in Smithtown New York. Our board certified surgeons have not used blade microkeratomes for years because they are not as precise or as safe. We then use Visx Customvue to create a custom Waveprint or Wavemap using Wavescan. This creates a custom fingerprint of each patients individual cornea so that we get the most precise and best results. The custom lasik vision correction laser eye surgery automatically centers and automatically tracks and also uses iris registration so that the laser eye surgery is perfectly centered on the visual axis. This form of bladeless custom lasik ilasik is one of the reasons that Dr. Zweibel and Dr. Martin have been included in "Top Doctors: New York Metro Area" for the last few years and also has made North shore Eye