LASIK Washington DC Surgeons Announce Winner ...

26-year-old Jennifer Boozel of Baltimore is the winner of the Destroy Your Glasses Contest, sponsored by the Eye Doctors of Washington in the DC and Maryland area. Jennifer's video was picked out of 15 submitted entries. The winning submission can be viewed at edow.com.

The Destroy Your Glasses contest invited individuals to come up with the most creative way of obliterating their glasses and capturing it on video. The prize? A free laser vision correction procedure at Eye Doctors of Washington, a Washington DC LASIK center. What's more, everybody who entered a video in the contest received a $1000 discount on LASIK, and our Eye Doctors of Washington donated a pair of eyeglasses for each submission.

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Refractive Surgical Practices In HIV-Positive Persons

ScienceDaily (Nov. 11, 2008) — People who are HIV-positive are now living longer, healthier lives, thanks to antiretroviral therapy and other treatment advances, and the number of HIV-positive people seeking LASIK, intraocular lenses following cataract removal, and similar procedures is likely to grow in coming years.

Ahmad A. Aref, M.D., Pennsylvania State Hershey Eye Center, Pennsylvania State University College of Medicine, and colleagues recently investigated current care practices and opinions by sending a confidential online questionnaire to members of the International Society of Refractive Surgery of the American Academy of Ophthalmology.

source: Science Daily (press release)

Economy takes toll on Lasik eye surgeries

By TERRY KINNEY

The number of vision correction surgeries performed by one of the nation's largest Lasik providers continues to plummet, mostly because money is tight and people are buying bread and milk rather than expensive cosmetic or elective surgery, analysts say.

At LCA-Vision Inc., which operates 77 LasikPlus vision correction centers in 33 states, the number of procedures is down by half from a year ago, and the company has slashed advertising, cut staff and suspended dividends.

"It's 99 percent the economy," said analyst Peter Bye, who follows the industry for Jefferies & Co. in New York.

"It's very substitutable," he said of Lasik. "Take the typical customer, a 30-year-old or 35-year-old who has been wearing contacts for 15 years. If money's tight, he says 'I'll do it next year.'"

source: Business Week

Historic LASIK Surgery Performed on Quadriplegic Patient to Preserve his Communication Abilities

BERGENFIELD, N.J., Nov. 7 /PRNewswire/ -- Eric Abrue
(30), a quadriplegic patient who is dependent on a
respirator since he was eight years old, had a historic
and highly successful LASIK procedure performed
by Drs. Jeffrey and Joseph Dello Russo. Eric fell from
a monkey bar in a playground in 1986, breaking his
neck and severing his spinal cord. Since that day, he
suffers from Quadriplegia, being totally unable to move any
part of his body below his upper neck down and is able to
breath on his ownonly for a short period of time without
the use of a respirator.

Eric is the first quadriplegic patient in the world who
underwent LASIK, using the Wavelight Eye-Q and a special
WL Swivel Chair. Eric, who is now thirty, is dependent for
all his needs on an around-the-clock care giver. He runs a
successful music production company, attends a college
online and designs his own T-shirt line. He was using
eyeglasses to see his computer clearly but in the last few
months has found out that wearing glasses did little to clear
up his vision, and the images became after
using the computer for 14-16 hours per day.

source:PR Newswire