Laser Eye Surgery

... New contacts to fix near sightedness - World News - Webindia123.com Yellow Pages E-Mail E-Cards Matrimonial Astrology Hotels Shopping Site Map Favorite Links February 28, 2006 2:28:20 PM IST University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center ophthalmologists will be the first in the area to insert a new type of implanted lens to fix nearsightedness."Think of it as a contact lens inside your eye," said Dr.

Wayne Bowman, who is inserting the new implantable collamer lens, or ICL, today for the first time at UT Southwestern University Hospitals.The ICL can replace or reduce the need for glasses by permanently placing the specially fitted artificial lens in front of the eye's natural lens, rather than replacing the natural lens as other implanted lens do, said Dr.

Bowman, professor of ophthalmology.The lens, made of a special collamer material, corrects moderate to severe nearsightedness, known as myopia, by bending light rays to improve blurry distance vision w...

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