DECATUR - Macon County Eye Center has a new and improved neighbor.Advanced Eye Surgery and Laser Center LLC recently has opened directly behind Macon County Eye Center as a new facility that performs outpatient eye procedures, including advanced cataract surgery, eyelid surgery, glaucoma surgery and laser treatments, Lasik corrective vision surgery and more.The mission of building the surgery center was to provide patients with a more convenient and economical alternative for eye surgeries, said Dr. Sushant Sinha, physician and medical director of both centers."We realized one inconvenience for our elderly patients, which is the majority of our patients, was going to the hospital, getting very confused and walking across a big parking lot," Sinha said. "We want to provide the utmost care and create a friendly, convenient and reliable facility."Previously, patients had to go to Decatur Memorial Hospital or Central Illinois Surgery Center for cataract surgery, said Dawn Followell, clinic administrator of Macon County Eye Center.

A feast for the eye

While sitting in the waiting room of the Jacksonville Eye Center in Riverside, 21-year-old Richard London saw a side of his mother hed never seen before, specifically, the inside of her cornea.

The amazing images displayed on a 52-inch LCD monitor, while in a nearby room Dr. Robert Schnipper peered through microscopes and used computer-controlled lasers to restore Rhoda Londons sight through the most advanced lasik techniques available.

Its amazing how you can improve your vision like that, the son said with an intense gaze. You cant do that with anything else, like hearing.

But London wasnt the first person to watch Schnipper in action. In fact, Schnipper and his colleague, Dr. Senthil Krishnasamy, host monthly live surgeries where potential patients, family and friends or those who just want to see something extraordinary, can watch a lasik surgery and decide if its the right way to correct their vision.

LASIK Expert Dr. James Salz Presents Refractec's Near Vision Conductive Keratoplasty Procedure for Adults Over 45 Who ...

Refractec, Inc., the company that developed the NearVision CK procedure, obtained FDA approval of CK for those adults over the age of 45 who now face the gradual reduction of near vision due to presbyopia (aging eyes). Refractec's NearVision CK™ procedure and Visx's monovision procedure are the only two FDA-approved procedure to reduce the need for reading glasses in this group of patients. NearVision CK™ is a non-invasive procedure, with no cutting or removal of tissue, making it one of the safest vision procedures available today. The procedure offers a terrific option for baby boomers who now require reading glasses.

Los Angeles, CA (PRWEB) August 14, 2007 -- Lasik and refractive expert Dr. James Salz (www.drsalz.com) recently returned from a meeting in Tokyo, Japan where he made a presentation to over 150 Japanese refractive surgeons concerning indications, results and technique of Conductive Keratoplasty (CK) to reduce the need for reading glasses in patients over the age of 45 with normal distance vision and also in patients who have had LASIK when they were younger and now require reading glasses.

New LASIK Device Treats Differing Vision Problems

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has approved the first LASIK device designed to treat one eye to see far-away objects and the other eye to see things that are close up.

LASIK vision correction involves cutting a flap in the outer layers of the cornea, removing a small amount of tissue beneath it with a laser, then replacing the flap.

Lopsided Lincoln

Artists, sculptors and photographers knew Abraham Lincoln's face had a good side. Now it's confirmed by science.

Laser scans of two life masks, made from plaster casts of Lincoln's face, reveal the 16th president's unusual degree of facial asymmetry, according to a new study.

The left side of Lincoln's face was much smaller than the right, an aberration called cranial facial microsomia. The defect joins a long list of ailments including smallpox, heart illness and depression that modern doctors have diagnosed in Lincoln.

Lincoln's contemporaries noted his left eye at times drifted upward independently of his right eye, a condition now termed strabismus. Lincoln's smaller left eye socket may have displaced a muscle controlling vertical movement, said Dr.