Once again, Hale Vision leads Southeastern Wisconsin in the field of refractive surgery.  The Pentacam is a 3-D modeling device that provides the refractive surgeon with the most detailed information obtainable today.  This is extremely valuable in the pre-operative screening of potential Lasik patients as it may detect diseases of the eye far in advance of other current technologies, thus preventing inadvertent surgery on poor surgical candidates.  All pre-operative patients at Hale Vision are screened by this device prior to be accepted as surgical candidates.  Along with the most advanced All-Laser Wavefront-Guided treatment system, Hale Vision remains the areas leading provider of premium refractive laser services.

Popular radio personality “CV” of 95.7 Fm had All-Laser Custom Lasik at Hale Vision on Friday October 12th. She’s doing great and writing about her experience in her blog. Check it out.

September 21, 2007 NASA approved All-Laser Lasik for use on U.S. astronauts. This decision was made following extensive clinical research conducted by the various branches of the military. The data, they felt, revealed that the combination of femtosecond laser for Lasik flap creation and wavefront-guided excimer laser for the corneal sculpting provides “superior safety and vision”. This, of course, is the technology that was introduced into Southeastern Wisconsin by Hale Vision and has been in place for over three years.

On air personality Drew Olson of ESPN Radio Milwaukee’s D-List fame underwent Lasik at Hale Vision on 5/2/07. Drew is doing great following his surgery and is thrilled about joining the “Free World”, a world free of glasses and contact lenses. Listen to Drew weekday mornings between 9Am and Noon on ESPN at 1510 Days / 1290 Nights.

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Read the details in this article at Science Daily.

C.H. asks if Grave’s Disease disqualifies a person from having Lasik. Not necessarily. Grave’s disease can be considered auto-immune in nature thus making one’s overall immune system slightly suspect for healing purposes. If Grave’s has caused the eyes to protrude, often making blinking abnormal, or if there is unusual dryness from the Grave’s, then this could be a problem. But if the Grave’s is mild, inactive, requires little on no medication to control, isn’t causing any eye problems currently and vision is stable, then there may not be any problem at all. It’s worth coming in for a consultation for a closer and discussion. If there are significant medications involved, then it would be best to call in and inform of these prior to coming for a consultation. Most likely things will work out just fine.

Frank Asks: Interested in Technis Iol Z9000. They make remarkable claims on restoring full functional sight. Your comments please.

The Technis intraocular lens was the first to employ the concept of higher order aberration correction into an IOL. This is similar, in a limited way, to what we try to do with our wavefront guided Lasik treatments. The cornea and the natural lens have certain amounts of spherical aberration. For years, standard lenses used after cataract removal have not addressed these factors. The Technis did. There were tests that indicated that this improved contrast sensitivity and overall night vision. Most of the manufacturers have or are in the process of making similar lenses available. This type of lens is not necessarily for everyone as some eyes may not need a fixed amount of spherical aberration correction, so there are several different lenses available with different amounts of correction in them. It is important to seek a refractive type surgeon involved in cataracts (lens removal) versus a cataract doctor trying to adjust to refractive surgery concepts.

Dr. Hale just returned from Irvine, California ( in the “OC”), where on September 23, 2006 he became one of the first ten physicians certified to train other physicians on the use of the Intralase femtosecond laser system.  This charter group of physicians were selected from more a thousand currently using this advanced laser system to create corneal flaps for the Lasik procedure.  Dr. Hale is also one of a small number of physician trainers on the Visx excimer laser system, the second step of the Lasik procedure.  It is this commitment to ongoing education and participation that has kept Hale Vision a leader in refractive surgery for over twenty years.

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