McDonald Eye Associates
Imagine waking up to see the world with crisp, brilliant clarity
with less dependence on glasses or contact lenses. With life
changing LASIK, you’ll be able to play sports, swim and enjoy social
activities with greater confidence for years to come.
Before the LASIK procedure, the Bausch & Lomb Zyoptix™ system is
used to map thousands of data points – giving the McDonald Eye
Associates team a fully detailed, three-dimensional picture of your
eye’s shape and characteristics. This information is then translated
from the diagnostic process into a personalized laser treatment plan
for each eye.
The entire process takes approximately 10 minutes per eye. Most
people get back to their normal routine quickly - even going back to
work the day after surgery.
One to two weeks prior to surgery, your McDonald Eye Associates
surgeon will use a laser to make a small opening within your eye
that allows fluid to pass between the eye’s lens and the front of
the eye. This will not affect your vision.
The procedure itself is brief and painless, much like LASIK. It
takes about 15 minutes and is performed while you remain awake and
relaxed (you may be given a mild sedative to alleviate nervousness).
www.mcdonaldeye.com/
McDonald Eye Associates
3318 North Hills Blvd.
Fayetteville, AR 72703
Phone: 479-521-2555
Toll Free: 1-800-262-4405
Fax: 479-521-6761
Ophthalmologists Bodiford Eye Center
Because of our commitment to providing our patients with the most
progressive facilities and treatments available, we are pleased to
provide two state-of-the-art surgery centers located in our Ft.
Smith, Arkansas and Grove, Oklahoma locations.
Both Fianna Hills Surgery Center (in Ft. Smith) and Oklahoma
Cataract and Laser Center (in Grove) are fully equipped and able to
handle any needs that may arise. We are able to provide surgical
care in a friendly, caring environment where our patients know
they're special.
LASIK (Laser In-Situ Keratomileusis) is the most popular of current
laser vision correction procedures. It is designed to lessen your
dependence on corrective lenses if you are nearsighted, farsighted,
or have astigmatism. Performed in the comfort of our office, it
takes just a few minutes per eye and is relatively painless.
The cornea is like the lens of a camera. It focuses light rays on
the retina at the back of your eye to produce the images you see.
When the cornea is not perfectly shaped, the images you see are
blurred. The Excimer laser system (LASIK) sculpts the cornea into
the correct curvature. In nearsightedness, images are focused in
front of the retina. It is corrected by flattening the cornea. In
farsightedness, images are focused behind the retina. It is
corrected by increasing the curvature of the cornea. In astigmatism,
the cornea has an irregular curvature. It is corrected by evening
the curvature.
www.bodifordeyecenter.com
Bodiford Eye Center and
Fianna Hills Surgery Center
9001 Jenny Lind Road
Fort Smith, AR 72908
1-479-649-7018
1-888-386-2020
Laser Vision Correction
Dr. Brown has been performing refractive surgery since 1992 and has
continually advanced his skills in this exciting area. From 1992 to
1996 he performed over 1,000 radial keratotomies and astigmatic
keratotomies. When the excimer laser became available in 1995, Dr.
Brown was among the first surgeons in Arkansas to use this more
precise method of refractive surgery to improve distance vision in
nearsighted patients. In 1999, after successfully operating on 1,200
eyes with PRK, he trained under Dr. Daniel Durrie of Kansas City, a
national leader in refractive surgery, and learned the LASIK
procedure. Desiring to know what it was like to be a refractive
patient, Dr. Brown had the LASIK procedure himself, and has 20/20
vision without glasses.
LASIK is a safe, reliable and painless way to improve vision without
the need for glasses or contact lenses. LASIK, which stands for
laser assisted in-situ keratomileusis, is a form of refractive
surgery that changes the way light is bent, or refracted, as it
passes through the cornea so that it focuses properly on the retina
in the back of the eye and objects can be seen clearly. The
procedure is effective for many patients with nearsightedness
(myopia), farsightedness (hyperopia) and astigmatism.
During the procedure, a device called a microkeratome creates a flap
in the outer layer of the cornea. Patients are given topical
anesthesia and a mild sedative so they are awake but calm and cannot
feel discomfort. The corneal flap is lifted and an excimer laser
beam adjusts corneal curvature so objects no longer appear blurry.
The cornea is steepened for hyperopic patients, flattened for myopic
patients, and made more spherical for patients with astigmatism. The
flap is then closed.
www.brownrefractivesurgery.com
Brown Refractive Surgery
1600 West Sunset Ave.
Springdale, AR 72762
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