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Lasik volume remains high at North Shore Eye Care

September 19, 2010 @ 08:16 AM — by Lawrence Zweibel

Lasik volume remains high at North Shore Eye Care where laser refractive surgery has been performed for the past 14 years. 

Lasik and Refractive Surgery at North Shore Eye Care

July 10, 2010 @ 07:46 AM — by Lawrence Zweibel

The Lasik experts at North Shore Eye Care have vast experience performing refractive surgery  as they now enter their 25th year performing such procedures.  Since that time refractive surgery has gone through a steady evolution of improvements making it one of the most common elective operative procedures.

How Lasik works

May 09, 2010 @ 07:55 AM — by Lawrence Zweibel

By using laser energy the main lens of the eye, the cornea can be reshaped so that glasses and contact lenses are no longer necessary.

Lasik On Long Island

April 25, 2010 @ 08:00 AM — by Lawrence Zweibel

Lasik surgery which has been performed for nearly 20 years is being performed by the highly skilled surgeons at Norh Shore Eye Care in Smithtown, Long Island.  Offered are all the technological improvements known as I-Lasik.

Lasik seminars to begin at North Shore Eye Care

April 18, 2010 @ 07:43 AM — by Lawrence Zweibel

Due to increased interest in lasik and how it is performed, evening seminars will begin at North Shore Eye Care.  The seminars will cover all the aspects involving the latest technology incorporated with lasik surgery known as I-Lasik.  These seminars will be given by the board certified surgeons Dr. Lawrence Zweibel, Jeffrey Martin, and John Mauro. Some of the new technological improvements that will be discussed include the intralase laser which creates a bladeless flap, iris registration for accurate astigmatism correction, iris tracking to follow ocular movement during laser, and most importantly Custom-vue laser which gives individualized, precise visual correction.

LASIK Surgery, Discussing Monovision

March 16, 2010 @ 08:50 PM — by John Mauro
  Monovision gives reference to the use of one eye for near vision and the other for distance vision. This procedure has great success for patients with presbyopia. The surgeon typically chooses the dominant eye as the distance eye and the non-dominant eye as the near vision eye. The surgeon will then give a trial of contact lenses to simulate what what the vision would be like. If the trial is successful, then the LASIK surgeon will perform laser surgery, correcting the stronger (dominant) eye for distance and the weaker eye (non-dominant) for near vision. Patients who already have mild to moderate myopia (nearsightedness) usually do well, sometimes not even needing a contact lenses trial. Monovision uses a process in the brain called neuro-adaptation. The brain has to get used to the fact that one eye is designed for near and the other for far, perceiving two simultaneous images and tries to blend them together. It could take upto 3-4 months for this process to occur, ty