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Cataract surgery and blood thinners... ask the cataract experts at north shore eye care

March 09, 2010 @ 08:31 AM — by unknown
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,

Laser vision correction by the lasik specialists in smithtown new york in long island

March 08, 2010 @ 11:03 PM — by unknown
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