Implantable contact lens is a corrective lens that is permanently implanted in the cornea of the eye through a tiny incision. .Implantable contact lens offers a safe, effective and permanent solution for people with moderate to high myopia, and relieves them from the burden of having to wear glasses to rectify their vision problems. Implantable contact lens is also known by the term implantable collamer lens, a term preferred by FDA.

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Botox is the commercial name for a medicine that has both therapeutic and cosmetic value. . Botox injection removes the frown lines between the eye brows and gives an individual, a more youthful and pleasant facial appearance. Botox is more in demand for its cosmetic value, and is a great beauty enhancer. Botox medicine has traces of toxicity and is approved by FDA, USA.

Therapeutic Use
Botox is administered by injecting it in to the affected area. In USA and other countries, Botox is widely used as an injection for treating eye muscle disorders and other painful muscle spasms. Botox, apart from its cosmetic use, is also used to treat a variety of diseases including crossed eyes, uncontrollable blinking, migraine and headache, cervical dystonia, excessive sweating, anal fissures, over weight, depression, diabetic neuropathy and for healing wounds etc.

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Cornea is the transparent, dome shaped front portion of the eye, covering iris, pupil and the anterior chamber. Cornea provides most of the optical power of the eyes, and thus helps the eye to focus on any object. It is a powerful refracting surface.

An adult cornea is 11.5 mm in diameter, has a 0.5 mm thickness and consists of five layers. The cornea does not have any blood vessels and gets oxygen direct from the air. The cornea has a shiny surface, and is highly sensitive. The transparency of the cornea is due to the presence of collagen fibres, and anything that affects these collagen fibres will cause serious corneal problems like corneal dystrophy.

Cataract is an unhealthy medical condition that develops in the lens of the eye. It prevents light from entering the retina of the eyes. Cataract affects all age groups and in an advanced stage, the cloudiness of the lens increases resulting in a decrease in the light reaching the retina. This will lead to a significant sight loss, and eventually, total blindness. Diabetes, glaucoma, smoking, eye injuries, infection etc are also known to cause cataract.

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Laser hair removal treatment offers an easy, effective and quick way, to remove all forms of unwanted hair from any part of the human body, in an individual. The new laser treatment removes unwanted hair from the face, chin, arms, underarms, hands, ears etc. In removing hair through laser method, hair follicles of a certain area are targeted with pulses of high energy light. This laser treatment, apart from removing the hair in a specific area does not in any way cause any harm to any other part of the human body.

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Implantable contact lens, also called implantable collamer lens in USA, is a lens implanted in the cornea of the eye to correct vision problems. It offers an effective and permanent solution for moderate and high myopia and other vision problems. Implantable contact lens is also the ideal option for those who want to avoid the use of glasses.

Features
Collamer, a blend of collagen and polyhema is the material used in the manufacture of implantable contact lens. Implanting the lens is a safe and speedy procedure and the physician needs to make a 3 millimeter incision in the eyes only. Implanting is done without the need for any stitches. For patients suffering from high myopia, implantable contact lens is the best treatment available presently. Implantable contact lens has proved to be more effective than LASIK in myopia patients.

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Laser eye surgery is a technologically advanced medical procedure that helps to eliminate the use of glasses and contact lenses by an individual. It reshapes the cornea of the eye permanently. Laser eye surgery offers a quick and easy way to correct all optical vision problems in an individual.

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The New Custom Vue^TMis a technologically advanced laser vision treatment that restores perfect vision in an individual. Custom Vue^TM is the safest, most precise and accurate laser eye treatment available in the world. This customized laser vision treatment, offers immediate cure for nearsightedness, farsightedness and astigmatism.

Features

The advanced Custom Vue^TM measures and corrects imperfections in the eye 25 times more precisely than all the other existing methods. Custom Vue^TM uses Wave Scan WaveFront^TM technology and VISX Iris Registration technology. These technologies, apart from ensuring advanced precision and safety, help to provide customization for each individual eye.

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WaveFront LASIK is a state-of-the-art technology that measures, corrects and cures every form of lower and higher-order optical aberrations in an individual. It is an improvement over all the other existing optical treatments.WaveFront LASIK is useful for all those who need a perfect vision, and offers an immediate cure from every form of eye distortions, vision loss and visual flaws.

How the system Works

Wavefront guided customized LASIK scans the entire optical system in an individual for any form of aberration and the underlying cause of poor vision. The surgeon then detects, measures and maps the aberrations and correct them using LASIK technology. The surgeon can also create an optical map of the eye, using this procedure.

Benefit of LASIK Treatment

The great benefit of LASIK treatment is that it can cure every form of lower and higher order optical aberrations that previously could not be rectified with the use of glasses, contact lenses or Laser surgery. This LASIK treatment is customized and is also unique to each eye.

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In people with keratoconus, until a few years ago, we had no choice but to replace all three layers of the cornea to correct their problem. This was a good option, called a corneal transplant. It involved using a small round blade to cut out the central thin part of the cornea. Success rate has been excellent, with most people improving vision to 20/40 or better after surgery. Yet in keratoconus and other corneal problems, affecting the outer layers of the cornea, it was a shame to have to remove the normal, inner layer of the cornea. This thin layer works as the water pump, pumping out the excess fluid from the cornea. It is also the layer that is most likely to reject, if a transplant rejection should occur. So why not retain this layer? With recent, modern techniques this is now possible to do by splitting the cornea between the middle and inner layer. This can be done with a special instrument called a dissector, by using air or fluid to separate the layers, or by means of a laser. This preserves the integrity of the eye by only replacing the layers of the cornea that are affected most, being the middle layer. This is a big advance for people with keratoconus, giving vision equivalent to that obtained with an all-layer corneal transplant with a much reduced risk of rejection.

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What is DSAEK? DSAEK is a form of corneal replacement that replaces only the inner layers of the cornea. To understand DSAEK one needs to understand the structure of the cornea. The cornea is the round, transparent dome on the front of the eye and covers the eye in much the same way that a watch glass covers the surface of a watch. It is curved and smooth. The cornea is made up of three layers, much like an Oreo cookie. There is an outer wafer, and thick inner filling and an inner wafer. A corneal transplant replaces some or all of the layers of the cornea. Until a few years ago, in fact, there was only one good choice and that was to remove and replace all layers of the cornea. This was done with a circular blade, like a tiny cookie cutter that would cut out a disc of the central cornea to be replaced by a donor.
However, people that require a corneal transplant may only have problems with one layer, commonly the inner layer or wafer. This can occur as a result of an aging process called Fuchs’ dystrophy, can result from an injury or following eye surgery. A regular corneal transplant works well for these conditions, but does have its problems. The cornea can be not smooth and irregular following a transplant, having what we call astigmatism. This can be caused by the tension on the stitches that hold the transplant in place. Also, a regular corneal transplant takes a long time to heal, a year or more. During this healing time, the vision can be poor.

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