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 [...]

http://www-nmcsd.med.navy.mil/news/news_view.cfm?nrid=258

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 [...]

Dr. Hale was invited to lecture on the advanced technologies of the new Visx Star S4 IR system at the Spring meeting of the American Society of Cataract & Refractive Surgery in San Francisco on March 19th, 2006. The discussion was about refinements of the techniques for most effectively using the new Iris Registration system [...]

ESPN Radio Milwaukee morning host Bill Johnson had Lasik at Hale Vision on Wednesday March 8, 2006. Bill had IntraLasik, utilizing the Intralase to make a blade-free flap and CustomVue reshaping using the Visx Star S4 IR, Iris Registration system. He was doing great with 20/15 vision the next morning. See the photos at the [...]

We performed our first day of surgery with the new 30kHz Intralase today. The technology is amazing. This unit fires pulses at 30,000/sec to create the flap. Everything went well, flaps looked great, the pressure time for the patients dropped from around 60-65 seconds per eye to around 35 seconds per eye (the patients liked [...]

The word is filtering onto the street that Visx has received verbal approval of CustomVue treatments for high myopia with astigmatism. The ranges are probably about what we hoped for, -11.00 Diopters of nearsightedness with up to 3 Diopters of astigmatism. This was the final piece of the puzzle that we were waiting for at [...]

This is interesting news posted in the Des Moines Register. Should be educational as this process unfolds. Click here to read the details of the article.

Our new Iris Registration system seems to be functioning well. All of our first day post op patients were either 20/20 or 20/15. We’ll follow the results and keep the blog group informed.