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When it comes to lasik laser eye surgery, North Shore eye care is the place that most patients in long island New York in Suffolk county feel comfortable. North Shore Eye Care has three board certified eye doctors and eye surgeons, who share the common goal to provide the absolute best in laser vision correction at a fair price. Dr. Jeffrey martin, Dr. Larry Zweibel and Dr. John Mauro all perform bladeless custom lasik as their only lasik method. Our board certified lasik doctors and lasik surgeons do all Intralasik with intralase, a blade free laser used to make the thinnest, safest and most precise flap possible. We then use Customvue by visx that automatically centers and automatically tracks for the very best results. Every patient in our Smithtown New yOrk lOng Island community gets iris registration which is the most precise way to center the lasik laser eye surgery and this further enhances the perfect result. Our board certified lasik surgeons have been recognized as Top Doctors in the New York Metro Area by Castle Connolly for the last few years and it shows. When you walk through the doors of our Long island office, you will feel welcome and comfortable with your decision. All of our patients receive free consultations for lasik and our eye doctors discuss the risks and benefits as well as other options with every one of our patients. We do not delegate these important meetings and therefore, all of our patients will meet with either Dr. Martin, Dr. Zweibel or Dr. Mauro and that surgeon will be you lasik surgeon. This helps our patients become comfortable with their surgeon and that is so important as far as confidence in the bladeless custom lasik ilasik surgery.

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

The board certified eye doctors and eye surgeons at North Shore eye care in Smithtown new york in long island specialize in cataract surgery and laser vision correction. We see many patients with macular degeneration which is a process where the center of the retina, the macular, becomes thinned or scarred and reduces the central vision. Macular degeneration is a wide spread eye problem and can be mild or severe from case to case. When we see a patient with significant macular degeneration and cataract formation, there is always a question about whether cataract surgery will help a patient to see better. Macular degeneration affects the central vision, so people with macular degeneration maintain their peripheral vision and are still able to be self sufficient in most cases. If everything else in the eye is healthy and the cataract or cloudy lens of the eye is severe enough that the light getting into the eye is reduced or the peripheral vision becomes compromised as well, cataract surgery is a good option.

Cataract surgery is performed in the same manner in those patients that have macular degeneration. At North Shore Eye care in suffolk county, new york, our board certified cataract doctors and cataract surgeons use a small incision and eye drop anesthesia without stitches, needles around the eyes, or even an eye patch. Our patients stay in their own comfortable clothes and return home the very same day. There is little to no pain involved and most patients are comfortable the very same day.

In patients with cataracts and macular degeneration, Dr. Jeff martin, Dr. Larry Zweibel and dr. John Mauro would be less likely to use a premium or advanced implant that is designed for far and near vision without glasses like the crystalens, restor, rezoom, or tecnis multifocal because in these patients, the benefit of this advanced technology would not be realized.

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

There are two lenses in every eye. The main lens of the eye is the cornea, which has a single focus and can be reshaped with Lasik or by other means. The cornea is the clear window in the front of the eye. Within the eye, behind the pupil lies the natural or crystalline lens of the eye. This lens is very clear and flexible in young people allowing excellent vision both at near and far. However by the time most people reach their 40’s, most of their ability to change focus from distance to near is lost. Still later as the natural lens continues to cloud good vision declines and one has to give thought to having cataract surgery.

Cataract surgery has been performed at North Shore Eye Care in Smithtown for the past 50 years. While this was once a hospital based procedure with patient stays of approximately 3 days, cataract surgery can now performed quickly and safely in out patient surgicenters with patients returning home the very same morning. The cataract operation consists of removing the poorly functioning natural lens with a new crystal clear lens, all done with microsurgery without the need for sutures. Patients can go about performing their normal activities the next day.

Drs. Lawrence Zweibel and Jeffrey Martin who have been consistently recognized in Castle Connelly’s book of Top Doctors have been recently joined by Dr. John Mauro. All three Doctors are board certified and perform cataract surgery using the latest techniques and instrumentation. With newer intraocular lenses that are now available such as the Alcon restor, the Bausch and Lomb crystalens, and the Abbott tecnis 1 piece youthful natural vision can be restored.

At Northshore Eye Care patients are served throughout Long Island, from the Hamptons and Riverhead to the western townships in Nassau County.

North Shore eye Care was founded in 1962 by Dr. Sidney Martin, a board certified eye doctor and eye surgeon. His practice grew over the years and he took care of eye patients with a variety of eye problems including cataracts, glaucoma, macular degeneration, diabetes and diabetic retinopathy, dry eye, and later laser vision correction. Our Smithtown new york eye care practice in long island’s suffolk county now has four board certified lasik doctors and lasik surgeons including Jeffrey Martin, Larry Zweibel and John Mauro. North Shore Eye Care in known as a leader in bladeless custom lasik or ilasik and all types of lasik corrective eye surgery. Dr. Jeff Martin and Dr. Larry Zweibel have been included as Top Doctors in the New York Metro Area by Castle Connolly for the last few years which further highlights their committment to excellence in laser vision correction.

At North Shore eye Care, we perform only the best and safest in laser vision correction using all blade free procedures with Intralase, a bladeless laser that makes the important flap as the first part of the lasik procedure. We then use Customvue by Visx which gets a unique waveprint or wavemap of your vision that is then lasered into your eyes automatically tracking and centering. All of our refractive laser eye surgery procedures use iris registration which insures the best placement of the laser vision correction procedure. For those patients that may not qualify for lasik, we do custom advanced surface ablation or prk, lasek, and epilasik. These are all procedures that spare tissue and are best for patients with thinner corneas, irregular corneas or high prescriptions.

From the moment you walk through the door at North Shore Eye Care, you will know that you have arrived at the right eye care practice for your laser vision correction.

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

Cataract Surgery is an elective eye surgery done by cataract surgeons or cataract doctors. The procedure is quick and painless and patients return to the comfort of their home the very same day. At North Shore eye Care in Smithtown New York in Long Island, cataract surgery is done by three board certified eye doctors and eye surgeons, Dr. John Mauro, Dr. Jeffrey martin, and Dr. larry Zweibel. Our board certified eye surgeons do the best and latest in cataract surgery including cataract surgery with no stitches, no eye patch, and no needles. We use high speed computer controlled ultrasound called phacoemulsification to remove the cloudy lens of the eye which is the cataract and then we implant an intraocular lens or IOL to restore vision. We specialize in premium implants designed to reduce or eliminate the need for glasses or contact lenses. These implants include the accommodating lens, crystalens, that moves slightly in the eye increasing range of focus from far to near. Multifocal implants like restor, rezoom, and tecnis multifocal have rings of focus so that some light is focused for near and some light is focused for far. We are experts with the toric implant that corrects astigmatism as well.

The recovery from cataract surgery is quite simple. Our patients are able to see right away and use eye drops for a few weeks so that there is little inflammation and no infection. Our patients are able to return to full activity within a week or so and have no other restrictions. Cataract surgery is elective surgery and in most cases, patients do not need to have cataract surgery until the cataract affects their daily activities enough to be a problem. North Shore Eye Care is a National Crystalens Center of Excellence and Dr. Martin and Dr. Zweibel have been voted Top Doctors in the New York Metro Area by Castle Connolly for the last few years.

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

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.

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.