LENS IMPLANT Technology for Macular Degeneration
New lens implants can help people with cataracts who also have macular degeneration. Two lens implant designs, both by Isaac Lipschitz, MD of Israel, are of help to a growing number of people worldwide. Click on the pdf for pictures and more information (Read More)

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Keratoconus is a condition in which the cornea becomes weak, progressively thinner, and irregular in shape. Instead of a normal, relatively round shape resulting in clear vision, the cornea in keratoconus can become cone shaped. Glasses and contacts help vision at first. In the past, the treatment then was corneal tranaplant. Now we are able to strengthen the cornea and make its shape more regular by the insertion of microscopic braces within the body of the cornea. Only eye drop anesthesia and mild sedation are required for this procedure. More recently, an FDA investigational technique called crosslinking has been used to strengthen the cornea by making an actual change in the corneal molecular structure. Crosslinking employs riboflavin (vitamin B2) eye drops and low dose ultraviolet light to accomplish the goal. All these techniques are used at the Mercy Center for Corrective Eye Surgery. For more information on the website, download the pdf brochure called "Keratoconus Treatment Options". (Read More)

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A new treatment called crosslinking or CXL to stop progressive vision loss from keratoconus is now under FDA clinical protocol at the Mercy Center for Corrective Eye Surgery. Mercy is the first and only crosslinking FDA clinical protocol center in Illinois or Wisconsin. The treatment, consisting of application of riboflavin eye drops and a weak dose of ultraviolet light similar to outside in the shade on a summer day, to the affected cornea. The treatment was developed in Switzerland in 1998 and is in practice widely outside the U.S. (Read More)

Seeing After 45
Robert L. Epstein, MD FACS (Read More)

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