tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-58067129632780242532024-03-13T15:30:16.820-07:00LASIK PUBLIC HEALTH ADVISORIES ISSUED: Ex-FDA Chief, Dr. Morris Waxler, states that "LASIK MAKES HEALTHY EYES SICK AND DISEASED FOR LIFE." LASIK irreversible eye reshaping surgery has been marketed in a deceptive way stating: "There are no known long term damages." Yet, there have always been "known-long-term damages." Dr. Waxler has requested a CRIMINAL INVESTIGATION into those responsible for possibly "COOKING THE LASIK SAFETY STUDIES." This is our cause...LASIK ADVISORYhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06454878522212705080noreply@blogger.comBlogger62125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5806712963278024253.post-20291979394347045092015-04-07T08:57:00.002-07:002015-04-07T08:57:16.845-07:00A Very Corrupt FDA/CDRH Of Directors, Commissioners, And FDA Employees PAID To Purposely Injure The American Public They Were Supposed To Serve<div style="text-align: center;">
<strong><u><span style="font-size: x-large;">-A Broken And Corrupt FDA/CDRH Infiltrated by The White Collar Medical Mafia-</span></u></strong></div>
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devices and especially how the pattern of corruption continues through 2015.
This has resulted in hundreds of thousands of permanent eye injuries in the US,
and several confirmed cases of suicide. </span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 18pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 18pt;"><u>David Muller (</u><a href="http://www.avedro.com/">www.Avedro.com</a><u>) and the Summit Excimer Laser history</u>:</span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 18pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 18pt;">In the 1990's, two companies were in competition for the Excimer
laser market, VISX, Inc. and Summit Technology, which was later acquired by the
ophthalmic giant, Alcon. Both companies needed FDA-approval for photorefractive
keratectomy (PRK), a predecessor of LASIK. Summit, based in Waltham,
Massachusetts, was headed by its founder, Chairman of the Board and CEO, David
Muller. Muller was at the center of a scandal surrounding Summit's application
to the FDA. In 1996, Paul Weyrich’s American Investigator television series
reported that Muller had paid the late Senator Edward Kennedy’s 1994
re-election campaign $1 million plus $500,000 to the Democratic National
Committee to get Kennedy to pressure the FDA to release Summit’s laser on to
the market. Weyrich’s program also alleged, among other things, that an FDA
employee had leaked to Muller trade-secret documents from competitor, VISX.
Several federal investigations were launched, including one by Congressman Joe
Barton, but no charges were ever filed. Summit received FDA-approval six months
before VISX, but Muller was fired by Summit's board hours before Weyrich's
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 18pt;">It wasn't long after the introduction of PRK before eye surgeons
began performing LASIK off-label. (LASIK was more marketable because it was
associated with less pain and faster visual recovery than PRK.) According to
Morris Waxler, PhD, then FDA ophthalmic device chief and the man most
responsible for FDA-approval of LASIK, the agency was concerned about LASIK's
widespread use in the absence of safety studies. So the FDA encouraged eye
surgeons to conduct LASIK clinical trials and bring them to the agency for
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 18pt;">But there was a problem. In addition to so-called "side
effects" (dry eyes, night vision problems, etc.), LASIK caused insidious
permanent structural damage and biomechanical weakening of the cornea. The
weakened cornea may begin to deform, or protrude, long after the surgery, even
years after the endpoint of clinical trials. This condition is known as corneal
Ectasia. Corneal Ectasia causes poor vision which is uncorrectable with glasses
and may lead to the need for corneal transplant. Likely tens of thousands of
patients, and perhaps even more, have developed corneal Ectasia after LASIK in
the U.S. alone. </span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 18pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 18pt;">As you know, the Medical Device Reporting regulation (21 CFR 803)
requires that post-LASIK corneal Ectasia and other device-related adverse
events be reported to the FDA. LASIK surgeons don't report adverse events and
life-altering complications after LASIK, including Ectasia, to the FDA as
required, but they maintain private records of Ectasia cases. LASIK surgeons
are clearly more concerned with preserving the public's false perception of
LASIK as a safe surgery and in avoiding lawsuits than in complying with federal
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 18pt;">When the FDA conducted approximately 30 inspections of LASIK
facilities between 2009 and 2012, it appears that every facility inspected was
found to be non-compliant with the Medical Device Reporting regulation. </span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 18pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span><br />
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 18pt;">The American Society of Cataract and Refractive Surgery (ASCRS), a
9,000 member-strong professional organization of cataract and refractive
surgeons, maintains a private database of corneal Ectasia after LASIK. A link
to the database can be found on the organization’s website, but it is
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 18pt;">The media reported a class action lawsuit against TLC Laser Eye
Centers, one of the largest corporate providers of LASIK in the country. As
part of the discovery process, TLC was forced to turn over documentation of its
secret files of patients who developed corneal Ectasia. </span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 18pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 18pt;">In a presentation given by a Cleveland Clinic surgeon during a
private meeting of LASIK surgeons, the surgeon stated that Ectasia cases are
not being reported. Says the surgeon, "If we look at our own practices, I
think the Keratectasia incidence is a lot higher, just like you alluded to, but
it's not being reported because of the litigious nature of what's going on. A
lot of us obviously don't report it because these are patients being referred
in to us."</span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 18pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></div>
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Ectasia are not being reported. FDA officials have been made aware of secret
files and private databases of Ectasia cases. But the agency refuses to
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Ectasia after LASIK (and a similar corneal disease known as Keratoconus, which
occurs naturally). It involves saturating the cornea with riboflavin followed
by UV-A irradiation, which induces a stiffening effect similar to aging in the
cornea and 'may' halt progression of corneal Ectasia. It carries a long list of
potential complications and universal adverse effects such as transient corneal
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its stated mission to "advance the science of corneal collagen
cross-linking to help patients with corneal disorders." Avedro is
currently seeking FDA-approval of a corneal collagen crosslinking system for
treatment of Keratoconus and post-LASIK corneal Ectasia. Why the move from
selling lasers to crosslinking corneas? </span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 18pt;"><br /></span> </div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 18pt;">Because Muller knows something about
LASIK that the industry and the FDA have been keeping quiet for years: LASIK
permanently weakens the cornea in all eyes treated, and this puts every LASIK
patient at risk for developing corneal structural failure known as corneal
Ectasia. Now Muller (a potential criminal and possibly more dangerous than ISIS), stands to make millions again selling a system to treat
patients for the disease he helped create. Outside of the US, crosslinking is
already being performed as a prophylactic, simultaneously with primary LASIK.
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Drugs Advisory Committee and Ophthalmic Device Panel on 2/24/2015 to consider
Avedro's NDA for it's corneal collagen crosslinking system. I attended that
meeting and spoke during the open public hearing. I recommended that the
advisers vote that 1) post-refractive surgery indication not be approved for
cases without documented evidence of progression of the disease, 2) if corneal
collagen crosslinking is approved, its labeling include a black-box warning of
potentially disabling eye injury, and 3) crosslinking not to be performed as a
prophylactic, simultaneously with primary Lasik—which would effectively pile
additional risks and adverse effects onto an already harmful unnecessary
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approval. The FDA, without explanation, has refused to publish the slides of
the open public hearing speakers at that meeting. My last slide called for the
large ophthalmology professional organizations to earmark foundation funds to
assist injured LASIK patients with the burdensome costs of
rehabilitation. </span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 18pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 18pt;">The FDA approved LASIK devices in spite of an approximate 20
percent incidence of dry eyes and night vision problems persisting beyond the
end point of the clinical trials. Small patient populations and short-term
follow-up in clinical trials were insufficient to detect less common but
potentially debilitating complications such as late onset corneal
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 18pt;">Morris Waxler petitioned the FDA in 2011 to withdraw approval of
LASIK devices citing dry eyes, night vision problems, and risk of corneal
Ectasia, among other serious problems with LASIK. The FDA denied the
petition, presumably at the direction of current FDA ophthalmic device chief,
Malvina Eydelman, M.D., an ophthalmologist with close ties to the
industry. Malvina Eydelman should be criminally investigated for malfeasance and violation of FDA/CDRH ethic laws, as she wasted $1,000,000 in a scientific Quality of Life safety LASIK study that didn't prove safety but rather that LASIK should be banned and Americans should be informed that it's much more unstable, dangerous and regressive than originally thought...But she didn't take this stand. Instead, she proved that she is put in her position as a pawn for the industry to protect profits and not American families. She is more of a threat to American families than ISIS.</span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 18pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></div>
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public health. In 2006, Eydelman dropped an important patient-protection
requirement from excimer laser approval letters, which required eye surgeons to
provide prospective LASIK patients with a copy of the laser patient labeling prior
to undergoing LASIK. The labeling contains data from clinical trials, which
shows that approximately 20 percent of patients report troubling symptoms, such
as dry eyes, double vision, starbursts, halos and night driving problems six
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citizen petitions asking for a variety of actions against LASIK, several
reports of LASIK-related suicides, numerous letters and emails from the public
concerning LASIK problems, countless false and misleading LASIK ads, and
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LASIK ADVISORYhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06454878522212705080noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5806712963278024253.post-79563860378977085072015-01-15T12:42:00.000-08:002015-01-15T14:33:21.998-08:00"FDA Ethics Violations Alleged In FDA LASIK Study!" By Jim Dickinson, Editor of www.FDAWeb.com<div style="text-align: center;">
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Two injured LASIK patients this week filed separate written complaints seeking government investigations into the conduct of the recently reported FDA/National Eye Institute/Department of Defense</span> <a href="http://www.fda.gov/downloads/MedicalDevices/ProductsandMedicalProcedures/SurgeryandLifeSupport/LASIK/UCM419443.pdf" target="_blank"><span style="color: #203b8c; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">LASIK Quality of Life Collaboration Project</span></a><span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">, alleging patient informed consent violations and sponsor conflicts of interest.</span><o:p> </o:p><br />
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Atlanta
business analyst and project manager</span><b> </b><b><span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Michael Patterson</span></b><span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"> asked the NIH to begin a "criminal investigation" i</span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"><span style="color: black;">nto the conduct of the recently
completed LASIK Quality</span> of Life Collaboration Project, alleging that it
presented false safety and study purpose information to over 500 subjects who
underwent the LASIK procedure.</span><o:p> </o:p><br />
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">The
slides of preliminary results from that study and delivered in October to the
American Association of Ophthalmology by CDRH director of ophthalmic devices</span><b>
</b><b><span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Malvina Eydelman</span></b><span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"> showed, Patterson’s complaint
says, that “severe symptoms” including loss of two lines of best corrected
vision were not considered adverse events “despite the indicated impact on work
productivity, coping, social desirability, depression/anxiety, severity,
etc. In addition, one of the … research investigators indicated that only
serious adverse events were even reported.”</span><o:p> </o:p><br />
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complaint alleges that researchers “were not concerned about the informed
consent or safety of the subjects who had LASIK in the study itself. This was
very unethical in my opinion and I’m asking for a formal investigation. This
happened because the researchers ignored evidence that LASIK itself was not
safe” as</span> <a href="http://lifeafterlasik.com/LASIK%20Morris%20FDA%20Petition%20Jan%206%202011.pdf" target="_blank">reportedby former CDRH branch chief Morris Waxler</a><span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">, who
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">“Regarding
the clinical trial informed consent,” the complaint says, “the five different
research centers for the PROWL2 study (each had a separate IRB that likely did
not even evaluate the ethics of the LASIK part of the study) used entirely
different LASIK informed consents that do not include many of the things on the
other consent forms, and are also intentionally misleading per the standard
practices done by the LASIK surgeons. … There was no balance in the information
they were given... </span><o:p> </o:p><br />
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">“The
consent forms included in this complaint (I have them from two of the five
centers from PROWL2) did not include information that the flap NEVER heals,”
the complaint continues. “One of the two (why not both?) indicated the flap is
weaker after LASIK but that does not give the full extent of the problem. The
entire eye is weakened because the outer 1/3 is the strongest part and it loses
over 97.5% of its former strength after a LASIK flap is cut. This can cause a
lot of other problems. Where does the consent form indicate the lasers use UVC
light (the most dangerous carcinogenic wavelength according to a 2011 W.H.O.
study) that causes premature cataracts to develop? Where were they told
of the risk of retinal or vitreous problems caused by LASIK? Both consent
forms implied that LASIK problems are usually temporary (and ‘rare’ in the
first place), but ‘may’ be permanent. This is FALSE. The fact is that LASIK
problems occur in 45% of patients (who had no symptoms before LASIK according
to the PROWL2 data), are usually permanent and are only rarely temporary.”</span><o:p> </o:p><br />
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">The
second injured LASIK complainant, Fort Lauderdale microjet sales broker</span><b>
</b><b><span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Dean Kantis</span></b><span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">, charges in a 1/15</span> <a href="http://lasikadvisory.blogspot.com/2015/01/from-dean-kantis-sent-thursday-january.html" target="_blank"><span style="color: #203b8c; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">lengthy, illustrated complaintto the HHS Inspector General</span></a><span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"> that the $1 million
collaboration project “actually proved that LASIK (elective surgery, not
necessary in the first place), has inflicted permanent damages into 30% or more
eyes at months 3-6, post-LASIK and yet … Malvina Eydelman spun the study as if
it was safer than ever. So my question to you is, <strong>“Would you fly in an airplane
that crashed 1 in 3 flights?”</strong></span><br />
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of a</span> <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2TtbxM-jUXA"><span style="color: #203b8c; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">10-minute
Youtube movie</span></a><span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"> on LASIK, Kantis alleges a conflict of interest with CDRH’s
Eydelman “and possibly the director of devices, Jeffrey Shuren, in showing
‘biases’ to the medical industry” by “protecting the profits, safety studies,
financial interests, and reputations of physicians in and around the safety
studies involved with PRK/LASIK/Refractive Surgery, and this has been going on
since the 1990s …”</span><br />
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Kantis’
complaint asserts that the proof of this high LASIK adverse effects rate can be
seen in any grocery or pharmacy ─ “Notice all of the post-LASIK dryness drops?
… ” His complaint says there are now more than 4,000 MedWatch reports on LASIK
and PRK events “and growing yearly, mostly created by injured patients, and not
by their physicians, so you can imagine how much larger this number and
epidemic would grow to if physicians and trained staff were reporting every
‘retreatment/enhancement,’ ‘dry eye prescriptions for Restasis,’ and ‘other
visual disturbances.’ Yet, they aren’t reporting them because they know that no
one is policing them ─ especially the FDA.” </span><br />
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<u><strong>About FDAWeb:</strong></u></div>
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The publisher of <b><i>Dickinson’s FDA Webview</i></b> is Ferdic, Incorporated, a 1982-established company founded and continuously led by <b>James G. Dickinson</b>, who first began reporting and analyzing FDA news in 1975 at FDC Reports, Inc., publisher of the <i>Pink Sheet</i> and other trade newsletters. Two years later, while still at FDC Reports, Dickinson came under the notice of other publishers and was soon supplying his analytical reports about FDA and related Washington activities to <i>Drug Topics, Scrip World Pharmaceutical News</i> (UK), <i>Pharmaceutical Technology, Pharmaceutical Executive, the Pharmaceutical Journal</i> (UK), <i>Clinica</i> (UK), <i>Animal Pharm</i> (UK), <i>the Australian Journal of Pharmacy, New Zealand Pharmacy, Drug News & Perspectives</i> (Spain), <i>Medical Device & Diagnostic Industry, and Medical Marketing & Media</i>. <br />
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In 1978, Dickinson conceived the idea upon which <b><i>FDA Webview</i></b> would later be based, establishing the first daily FDA news service for the pharmaceutical industry in <i>Washington Drugwire</i>. Ahead of its time, this was a daily single-sheet Western Union Mailgram providing between five and eight specialized news capsules each morning, based on Dickinson’s exclusive FDA sources. The service was too expensive, however, and it ceased publication the following year. Dickinson consolidated his many journalistic activities in 1982 under an independent company he established with his wife, the former <b>Sheila Ferguson</b> (Ferdic is a combination of their two last names), and in 1984 they launched the twice-monthly <b><i>Dickinson’s FDA</i></b>, a unique analytical newsletter covering FDA regulation of pharmaceuticals, medical devices, biologics and veterinary medicines. followed by <b><i>Dickinson’s Pharmacy</i></b> and <b><i>Dickinson’s PSAO</i></b> (two pharmacy-oriented monthlies). In 1992, the company launched <b><i>Dickinson’s FDA Inspection</i></b>, a monthly newsletter focusing on in-depth analysis of FDA enforcement and compliance actions, co-edited with a former FDA prescription drug labeling compliance director, <b>Rudolf Apodaca</b>. In 1993, this publication was merged with <b><i>Dickinson’s FDA</i></b> in a new monthly, <b><i>Dickinson’s FDA Review</i></b>, with former FDA Denver District director <b>John Scharmann</b> as consulting editor. <span style="font-family: verdana,times new roman;">Today Dickinson continues as Editor, Publisher and President of Ferdic, Inc, which has a staff of writers, researchers and office personnel under the direction of Washington Editor <strong>David McFarland</strong>. <br /><br /> Telephone: 1-800-659-6858<br /> Fax: 1-717-731-1427<br />Email: <a href="mailto:info@fdaweb.com"><span style="color: #203b8c;">info@fdaweb.com</span></a><br /> Web site: <a href="http://www.fdaweb.com/">www.fdaweb.com</a> </span><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: "Tahoma",sans-serif;"><br /><br />From:</span></b><span style="font-family: "Tahoma",sans-serif;"> Dean Kantis <br />
<b>Sent:</b> Thursday, January 15, 2015 8:25 AM<br />
<b>To:</b> <a href="mailto:snydermanj@mail.nih.gov"><span style="color: #0563c1;">snydermanj@mail.nih.gov</span></a><br />
<b>Cc:</b> <a href="mailto:DEAND@od31em1.od.nih.gov"><span style="color: #0563c1;">DEAND@od31em1.od.nih.gov</span></a>;
<a href="mailto:hancockk@od.nih.gov"><span style="color: #0563c1;">hancockk@od.nih.gov</span></a>; <a href="mailto:raisdanais@od.nih.gov"><span style="color: #0563c1;">raisdanais@od.nih.gov</span></a>; <a href="mailto:fb@niaid.nih.gov"><span style="color: #0563c1;">fb@niaid.nih.gov</span></a>; Dean Kantis<br />
<b>Subject:</b> Criminal Investigation Involving FDA Employees: Malvina
Eydelman Re: LASIK FDA APPROVAL/FALSIFIED SAFETY STUDIES since 1995.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<o:p><span style="font-family: Calibri;"> </span></o:p><br />
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">January 15<span style="font-size: small;"><sup>th</sup>, 2015<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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<b><u>“The Public Is Being Completely LIED To, Deceived, And Purposely Injured
By LASIK Centers”<o:p></o:p></u></b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;"><u><span style="color: black;">Re:</span></u><span style="color: black;"> LASIK elective surgery / FDA / CDRH Executives are not
following FDA protocol…<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Calibri",sans-serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"><strong><span style="font-size: large;">“Dear HHHS Inspector General,”</span></strong> </span><br />
<br />
First, thank you for putting 15 minutes aside today, to take the time to
investigate my accusations. In fact, to save you time, here’s a
“mini-film” that we created to succinctly explain this problem:<br />
</span></span><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2TtbxM-jUXA"><span style="color: #0563c1; font-family: Calibri;">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2TtbxM-jUXA</span></a><span style="font-family: Calibri;">
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The FDA and their office of Internal Affairs is a “broken entity.” For
whatever reason, they refuse to look into a matter where one of their
“Directors” spent $1 million on a 6.5 year Quality of Life LASIK Safety Study
(attached) that actually proved that LASIK (elective surgery, not necessary in
the first place), has inflicted permanent damages into 30% or more eyes at
months 3-6, Post LASIK and yet the <b><u>Director of the FDA, Malvina Eydelman</u></b>,
spun the study as if it was safer than ever. So my question to you is,
“Would you fly in an airplane that crashed 1 in 3 flights because that’s about
the safety/efficacy of LASIK and the FDA won’t issue the proper PHA “Public
Health Advisory” to warn the consumers who think because it’s FDA APPROVED,
that means it’s 99.99% safe/effective when in reality, it’s not. Even the
ex-chief of medical devices <b><u>who led the team to the FDA APPROVAL of
LASIK, Dr. Morris Waxler, petitioned the FDA back in Jan. 6<span style="font-size: small;"><sup>th</sup>, 2011
and has since been ignored and “black flagged” by the FDA</span></u></b> and other
corresponding governmental departments.<br />
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<b><u>Where Is The Proof:</u></b><br />
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Go into any grocery store or pharmacy. Notice all of the POST LASIK
DRYNESS DROPS? Even your own Dr. Frederick Ferris put this into his
presentation a few months ago at the AAO/Chicago conference in Oct. 2014.
The consumer is not being protected, and if you look at everything the FDA/CDRH
has done since the inception of LASIK, they only protect the industry and are
“tapped” into their positions and put their by industry to hurt competition and
to maximize profits whatever the cost to the consumer who thinks their BILLIONS
annually are spent to make sure that this kind of malfeasance and egregious
behavior is non-existent.<br />
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<b><u>Probable Cause:</u></b><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">If you see my email below, one of
many, you will see that we have issued no fewer than 4 complaint cases <b><u>accusing
the FDA of “misappropriation of funding” aka “malfeasance,” and that the
Director of Ophthalmology, Malvina Eydelman,</u></b> blew through 6.5 years to
push this problem/epidemic out when it shouldn’t have taken more than a year,
and now after the study concluded (started back in 2009), and after
$1,000,000.00 USD has been spent, the study (attached: called “Malvina Eydelman
FDA-NEI Prowl Results”) showed according to her depiction, “that LASIK is the
most studied procedure and is safer now than ever before…” In fact, she
was so excited to start off the AAO that she was the first presenter to share
the supposed “good news” and set the pace.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><o:p><span style="font-family: Calibri;"> </span></o:p></span><b><u><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">We are accusing of both
Jeffrey Shuren and Malvina Eydelman of the following:</span></span></u></b><span style="color: black;"><br /><span style="font-family: Calibri;">
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</span></span><span style="background: yellow; mso-highlight: yellow;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">•
a violation of any law, rule, or regulation, <br />
• mismanagement, <br />
• a gross waste of funds, <br />
• an abuse of authority, or <br />
• a substantial and specific danger to public health or safety</span></span><span style="color: black;"><br /><span style="font-family: Calibri;">
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<b><u>Who is Dr. Perry Rosenthal:</u></b><br />
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Even <b><u>Dr. Perry Rosenthal, Assistant Ophthalmologist, Harvard University
and founder of the Boston Foundation For Sight, is an outspoken critic of LASIK</u></b>
yet complains that his studies that “warn that LASIK is a bad idea and inflicts
disease and inflammation” will not get picked up by any of the journals.
In other words, anyone or anything that doesn’t “BOAST” that LASIK is
completely safe/effective 95% or more of the time, won’t get published and that
person who did such will be “black listed” by the industry and by his/her
peers.<br />
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<b>Dr. Rosenthals Credentials:</b> <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="_MailEndCompose"><span style="color: black;"><br /><span style="font-family: Calibri;">
<b>Dr. Rosenthal: “The Scandal of La-Sick Eye Surgery:” </b></span></span></a><b><span style="color: black;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<a href="http://lasikscandal.com/Gallery/Perry-Rosenthal-The-Scandal-Of-LASIK-Risks-Complications-Dry-Eye-Pain"><span style="color: #0563c1; font-family: Calibri;">http://lasikscandal.com/Gallery/Perry-Rosenthal-The-Scandal-Of-LASIK-Risks-Complications-Dry-Eye-Pain</span></a><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"> <br />
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<b>Dr. Rosenthal: “Blasts FDA/CDRH Failure To Protect The Public:”</b><br />
</span></span><a href="http://www.mddionline.com/mddi-index-ad.html?gotourl=http://www.mddionline.com/article/harvard-professor-blasts-cdrh-failure-protect-lasik-patients"><span style="color: #0563c1; font-family: Calibri;">http://www.mddionline.com/mddi-index-ad.html?gotourl=http://www.mddionline.com/article/harvard-professor-blasts-cdrh-failure-protect-lasik-patients</span></a><span style="color: black;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><u>What is BioShape Known For Proving And Why Hasn’t Their Study Been
Published By The Ophthalmic Journals:</u></b><br />
BioShape is a company that has proven that every LASIK eye surgery, permanent
flap/scar creation, has always has “KNOWN PERMANENT INJURIES” and <b><u>yet a
group of American Opthalmologists appointed by Alcon knew this when they hired
Daniel Kluting and Stephan Schrunder</u></b> (Attached: Bioshape 2004,
2005, 2006 results of studies), yet they were fired since they proved that
LASIK was a Titanic and was proven to create a “Permanent Golf Divot” into each
of it’s victim’s cornea, creating a loss of 98% of the eye’s tensile strength,
creating permanent Dry Eye or existing Dry Eye made much worse, and lastly
creates “Uneven Tear Film Distribution,” to name but a few known permanent
injuries of which, the industry is stating “these are just mere temporary
symptoms and side effects and will go away in a few months or at the latest by
Months 3-6…” Yet they don’t go away and the industry knows this, and has known
this all along. These are instead properly referred to as:
“PERMANENT INJURIES – ADVERSE EVENTS – SERIOUS ADVERSE EVENTS” and the industry
won’t use these proper terms as then they would have to file the appropriate
MDR Medwatch Injury Cases/Reports Here into the FDA’s Reporting system which no
one at the FDA is policing or reading anyway: <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<b><u>Report a LASIK Problem:<o:p></o:p></u></b></span></span></div>
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<a href="http://www.fda.gov/MedicalDevices/ProductsandMedicalProcedures/SurgeryandLifeSupport/LASIK/ucm061479.htm"><span style="color: #0563c1; font-family: Calibri;">http://www.fda.gov/MedicalDevices/ProductsandMedicalProcedures/SurgeryandLifeSupport/LASIK/ucm061479.htm</span></a><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"> <br />
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If the FDA checks, they would now find that there are over 4,000 Medwatch Cases
for LASIK and PRK elective and irreversible procedures known, and growing
yearly. Mostly, created by patients and not by their physicians, so you
can imagine how much larger this number and epidemic would grow to if
physicians and trained staff were reporting every “retreatment/enhancement,”
“dry eye prescriptions for RESTASIS,” and “other visual disturbances.”
Yet, they aren’t reporting them because they know that no one is policing
them…especially the FDA or CDRH!<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Please now see the bottom thread
of this email to see how the FDA continues to ignore this. When I called
into the FDA’s Office of Internal Affairs, they “hung up on me.”<br />
So my advocacy work is completely disrespected, all pro bono, since the FDA
seems “broken and incoherent” when anything negative is mentioned or reported
regarding LASIK/PRK elective surgery.<br />
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See for yourself below!<o:p></o:p></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Thank you.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">,<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Dean Andrew Kantis<br />
</span></span><a href="http://www.lasikadvisory.com/"><span style="color: #0563c1; font-family: Calibri;">www.LasikAdvisory.com</span></a><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"> <br />
</span></span><a href="http://www.lifeafterlasik.com/"><span style="color: #0563c1; font-family: Calibri;">www.LifeAfterLasik.com</span></a><span style="color: black;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;"><b>From:</b> Dean Kantis <br />
<b>Sent:</b> Tuesday, December 16, 2014 12:21 PM<br />
<b>To:</b> Gonzalez, Alberto<br />
<b>Cc:</b> Jim Dickinson; 'Morris Waxler'; Dean Kantis; Larry Pilot<br />
<b>Subject:</b> Criminal Investigation Involving FDA Employees: Malvina
Eydelman Re: LASIK FDA APPROVAL/FALSIFIED SAFETY STUDIES since 1995.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">December
16, 2014</span><b><br /><span style="font-family: Calibri;">
<br />
Hello Mr. Alberto Gonzalez:<br />
</span></b><span style="font-family: Calibri;">(FDA Office of Internal Affairs)</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">I called today to check in and see
if any progress has been made on my case report and unfortunately for me, was
unable to reach you,
but instead reached a <u>Mr. McCormick</u> who was extremely naiveté and rude
by not wanting to give me the time of day on anything and<br />
hung up on me. He knew who I was and called me Mr Kantis. I then
called back and a<u> Mr. Rubin</u> picked up. He tried to answer my
simple question asked which was “who is in charge at the FDA of deciding
whether or not this case/complaint is going to be investigated”
and tried to pawn me off on an ex FDA compliance department employee who I know
of doing the same thing, called Mr. David Buckles
who is no longer at the FDA/CDRH and was working under Steven Silverman who
heads Compliance.<br />
<br />
Anyway, to my dismay, this department has been completely rude, totally
unprofessional, and “hanging up” like a bunch of children playing
games and pranks, isn’t the way to handle a consumer who is helping your
department for FREE to police/register possible medical criminals.<br />
The fact that I’m being blown off again, by a department who is being paid by
our hard earned tax paying dollar adds further insult to injury.
Lastly, may I ask you the same question “Who at the FDA/CDRH is in charge of
deciding whether or not this case is going to be investigated?”<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Thank you for the courtesy of your
reply.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">,<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">D<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">
</span></span><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="color: black;">My best to you,</span><span style="color: #44546a;"><o:p></o:p></span></span><br />
<span style="color: #44546a;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">
</span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Tahoma",sans-serif;">
<b>Dean A. Kantis</b><br />
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;"><b>From:</b> Gonzalez, Alberto [</span><a href="mailto:Alberto.Gonzalez@fda.hhs.gov"><span style="color: #0563c1; font-family: Calibri;">mailto:Alberto.Gonzalez@fda.hhs.gov</span></a><span style="font-family: Calibri;">]
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<b>Sent:</b> Friday, December 5, 2014 1:02 PM<br />
<b>To:</b> Dean Kantis<br />
<b>Subject:</b> RE: Criminal Investigation Involving FDA Employees: Malvina
Eydelman Re: LASIK FDA APPROVAL/FALSIFIED SAFETY STUDIES since 1995.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">Thank
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">SA
Alberto L. Gonzalez<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">(240)
276-9393<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Tahoma",sans-serif;">From:</span></b><span style="font-family: "Tahoma",sans-serif;"> Dean Kantis </span><span style="font-family: "Tahoma",sans-serif;"><br />
<b>Sent:</b> Friday, December 05, 2014 12:52 PM<br />
<b>To:</b> </span><a href="mailto:Whistleblower.Ombudsman@oig.hhs.gov"><span style="font-family: "Tahoma",sans-serif;"><span style="color: #0563c1;">Whistleblower.Ombudsman@oig.hhs.gov</span></span></a><span style="font-family: "Tahoma",sans-serif;">; Gonzalez, Alberto;
West, Robert<br />
<b>Cc:</b> 'Morris Waxler'; Jim Dickinson; Dean Kantis; </span><span style="font-family: "Tahoma",sans-serif;">Roger Davis; Michael Patterson; Larry
Pilot<br />
<b>Subject:</b> Criminal Investigation Involving FDA Employees: Malvina
Eydelman Re: LASIK FDA APPROVAL/FALSIFIED SAFETY STUDIES since 1995.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">December 5, 2014<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span><b><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Dear OIG, OCI, and HHS Offices of Criminal Investigation,<br />
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<u>My complaint for a Criminal Investigation from an external FDA Office:</u>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">There is a conflict of
interest with the Director of Ophthalmology, <b><i><u>Malvina Eydelman</u></i></b>,
and possibly the Director of Devices, <b><i><u>Jeffrey Shuren</u></i></b>, in
showing “biases’” to the medical industry, </span><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Protecting the profits,
safety studies, financial interests, and reputations of physicians in and
around the Safety Studies involved with PRK/LASIK/Refractive Surgery, and
this has been going
on since the 1990s (see bottom of this email Part 1-7). How can the
OIG, OCI, and HHS work in harmony to conduct an investigation into the
matters of LASIK NEVER BEING WORTHY of
FDA Approval, the original studies / ongoing safety studies prove, that the
lasers used in LASIK are about as safe as going up in an airplane and
crashing 1 in 5 flights. This is why we need
your attention into this matter. The public thinks that because LASIK
is FDA Approved, that means that it’s 99.99999% safe or that means to them
that if they fly in an airplane, they have
a 99.99999999% chance of safely flying…This is certainly NOT the case and the
FDA needs to do the right thing and warn the consumer since the industry
chooses to deceive the consumer.
If you take the time to thoroughly investigate this, you will find the same
thing, that LASIK should have never have been approved and represents a
danger to the public!<br />
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<u>First, I’m contacting the OIG due to YOUR WEBSITE stating this:</u><br />
</span></b><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Disclosure by current and former <b><u><span style="color: red;">Federal
employees</span></u></b><span style="color: red;"> </span>and applicants of the
following types of wrongdoing are covered by the Whistleblower Protection Act
of 1989: <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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• mismanagement, <br />
• a gross waste of funds, <br />
• an abuse of authority, or <br />
• a substantial and specific danger to public health or safety<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;"><b><u>A little background about what has transpired since I have had LASIK on
Aug. 24<span style="font-size: small;"><sup>th</sup>, 1999:<o:p></o:p></span></u></b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">As a consumer, I feel very
wronged, that the FDA and Medical Agencies would allow a permanently injured/disabled
person like myself to get sued for $2million dollars by my LASIK doctor<br />
Nick Caro in Chicago/IL, in an effort to show me that he can try to quiet me
from speaking out about his 60+ LASIK LAWSUITS. Maybe he knows something
that I don’t know about no one<br />
investigating or policing his center? Or…that all of my attempts to have
Dep’t of Regulations investigate him and follow doctors that lied to me, to
protect him, would get DENIED. Perhaps…<br />
But hopefully with this email, you will prove me wrong.<br />
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Please understand, I have turned in no fewer than 15 complaints over the past 6
years into the investigation of LASIK officials involved in the FDA Approval of
LASIK,
The Safety Studies involved in the original FDA Approval of LASIK, and the
continued Safety Studies Involved in LASIK. In addition, by hearing from
no fewer than several thousand injured LASIK patients that have all said the
same thing, we have concluded that there is a Medical Coverup/Conspiracy
involved at the highest Director positions inside FDA/CDRH and those physicians
and OEM medical Executives that continue to make millions/billions
annually off of the sale of: 1. LASERS used for LASIK and PRK
Refractive Surgeries. 2. Future
Surgeries/Enhancements/Retreatments. 3. The Micro-Keratome<br />
Blades and FemtoSecond Lasers used in Refractive Surgeries. 4. Post
LASIK Restasis Prescription and Dry Eye Drops for LASIK Dryness. 5.
Early need for
accelerated aging of the eye and Cataract Surgeries. 5. Misc:
Office Visits, Ectasia/Keratoconus induced surgeries, Corneal Transplants,
Vitrectomy surgeries, etc.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><i><u><span style="color: red;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">(THIS
REPRESENTS BILLIONS OF DOLLARS ANNUALLY IN REVENUE FOR THE OPTHALMIC INDUSTRY
THAT WOULD NOT HAVE HAPPENED WITHOUT LASIK STAYING APPROVED).</span></span></u></i></b><br />
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<b><u>PETITIONS to FDA continue to be IGNORED:</u></b> Dr. Morris Waxler
oversaw the group that approved LASIK back in 1996/1997.
Flash forward to Jan. 6<span style="font-size: small;"><sup>th</sup>, 2011: Dr. Waxler petitions the FDA
to immediately “PULL THE LASIK FDA APPROVAL” and issue a “CRIMINAL
INVESTIGATION.”<br />
</span></span><a href="http://lifeafterlasik.com/LASIK%20Morris%20FDA%20Petition%20Jan%206%202011.pdf"><span style="color: #0563c1; font-family: Calibri;">http://lifeafterlasik.com/LASIK%20Morris%20FDA%20Petition%20Jan%206%202011.pdf</span></a><span style="font-family: Calibri;">. See attached, official correspondence of
Petition/Petition Denial to Morris by FDA.<br />
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<b><u>Waxler on TV begging the consumers to listen and to NOT DO LASIK or trust
the FDA:</u></b></span></div>
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<b><u>Dr. Oz LASIK Warning: “Stated 1 in 5 eyes are permanently being
ruined:”</u></b></span></div>
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<b><u>We spoke out against LASIK at the April 2008 hearing, but the entire
Panel of Ophthalmologists wearing glasses hasn’t replied to us since:</u></b><br />
</span><a href="https://www.youtube.com/user/FDALasikHearingVideo/videos"><span style="color: #0563c1; font-family: Calibri;">https://www.youtube.com/user/FDALasikHearingVideo/videos</span></a><span style="font-family: Calibri;"> .</span></div>
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<b><u>Mini Film we made that explains this in a few minutes:</u></b><br />
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<b><u>Malvina Eydelman/Jeff Shuren: Directors of Ophthalmology and
Devices:</u></b><br />
-Why aren’t physicians such as Nick Caro/Chicago, IL who ruined my eyesight and
has accumulated 60+ LASIK LAWSUITS<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Being disciplined as FDA/CDRH
is supposed to be doing (3 years imprisonment and $1million in fines is what
the FDA’s website shows):<br />
</span><a href="http://lasikadvisory.blogspot.com/2013/03/where-is-fda-they-arent-even-punishing.html"><span style="color: #0563c1; font-family: Calibri;">http://lasikadvisory.blogspot.com/2013/03/where-is-fda-they-arent-even-punishing.html</span></a><o:p></o:p></div>
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</span></span></u></i><a href="http://www.fda.gov/MedicalDevices/ProductsandMedicalProcedures/SurgeryandLifeSupport/LASIK/ucm272960.htm"><em><span style="color: blue; font-family: "Calibri",sans-serif; font-style: normal;">http://www.fda.gov/MedicalDevices/ProductsandMedicalProcedures/SurgeryandLifeSupport/LASIK/ucm272960</span></em><strong><i><span style="color: blue; font-family: "Calibri",sans-serif;">.</span></i></strong><strong><span style="color: blue; font-family: "Calibri",sans-serif; font-weight: normal;">htm</span></strong></a><i><u><span style="color: blue;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">
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-$1m was just spent on another “4 year Supposed Safety Study” to see whether or
not LASIK meets FDA approval guidance, which it still does not,
and the study proved that they don’t know…(See attached presentation by Malvina
Eydelman: FDA – NEI PROWL RESULTS).<br />
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;"><a href="http://www.fda.gov/downloads/MedicalDevices/ProductsandMedicalProcedures/SurgeryandLifeSupport/LASIK/UCM419443.pdf">http://www.fda.gov/downloads/MedicalDevices/ProductsandMedicalProcedures/SurgeryandLifeSupport/LASIK/UCM419443.pdf</a></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Calibri;"><br />-Malvina Eydelman's 6 year So Called QoL LASIK Safety Study proves LASIK is unsafe and immediately she has a responsibility to issue the proper consumer PHA "Public Health Advisory" to prevent any families from being permanently injured:</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Calibri;"><a href="http://www.fda.gov/downloads/MedicalDevices/ProductsandMedicalProcedures/SurgeryandLifeSupport/LASIK/UCM419443.pdf">http://www.fda.gov/downloads/MedicalDevices/ProductsandMedicalProcedures/SurgeryandLifeSupport/LASIK/UCM419443.pdf</a></span><br />
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-See presentation by Fred “Rick” Ferris, Director of the NEI who
actually is trying to get the medical community to look at the Dry Eye Disease
problem that LASIK is causing:</span><a href="http://www.fda.gov/downloads/MedicalDevices/ProductsandMedicalProcedures/SurgeryandLifeSupport/LASIK/UCM421194.pdf">http://www.fda.gov/downloads/MedicalDevices/ProductsandMedicalProcedures/SurgeryandLifeSupport/LASIK/UCM421194.pdf</a><br />
<span style="font-family: Calibri;">-Dr. Steven Schallhorn has
made MILLIONS off of his Femtosecond Laser and LASIK, and yet is in charge of
the Safety Studies ongoing? </span><a href="http://lasikadvisory.blogspot.com/2013/08/is-steven-schallhorn-using-navydod-to.html"><span style="color: #0563c1; font-family: Calibri;">http://lasikadvisory.blogspot.com/2013/08/is-steven-schallhorn-using-navydod-to.html</span></a><span style="font-family: Calibri;"> . Malvina is very close to Schallhorn and yet <br />
this is allowed?</span> </div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">He and others like him, are
teaching physicians to tell patients they should love their LASIK vision even
if it’s distorted and blurred like this photo above and calling them a
“success.”</span><o:p><span style="font-family: Calibri;"> Does this look like a "SUCCESS" to you?</span></o:p><br />
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">-Any Safety Study that goes
against the industry and the doctor who reports the study, is black listed, and
it doesn’t get published in industry news:<br />
</span><a href="http://lasikadvisory.blogspot.com/2013/07/harvard-medical-dr-perry-rosenthal.html"><span style="color: #0563c1; font-family: Calibri;">http://lasikadvisory.blogspot.com/2013/07/harvard-medical-dr-perry-rosenthal.html</span></a><span style="font-family: Calibri;"> .<br />
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-Epidemic? Signs everywhere, just look:<br />
</span><a href="http://lasikadvisory.blogspot.com/2013/03/avedro-ccl-treatment-for-kerataconus-or.html"><span style="color: #0563c1; font-family: Calibri;">http://lasikadvisory.blogspot.com/2013/03/avedro-ccl-treatment-for-kerataconus-or.html</span></a><span style="font-family: Calibri;"> .<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Even the Ophthalmic Industry is saying that there are "ethical" challenges, just look at their cover:<br />
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Go back to how LASIK got approved and you will find this investigation <br />
<u><span style="color: red;">(My apologies for the poor video quality, turn up
and listen to what happened):</span></u></span><br />
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Part One: </span><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mXNN65PF_HA"><span style="color: #0563c1; font-family: Calibri;">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mXNN65PF_HA</span></a><span style="font-family: Calibri;"> (10 minutes)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Part Two: </span><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z9THraSVkOs"><span style="color: #0563c1; font-family: Calibri;">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z9THraSVkOs</span></a><span style="font-family: Calibri;"> (10 minutes)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Part Three: </span><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j_0hvMJsQyA"><span style="color: #0563c1; font-family: Calibri;">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j_0hvMJsQyA</span></a><span style="font-family: Calibri;"> (10 minutes)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Part Four: </span><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BEVVXeJVL3U"><span style="color: #0563c1; font-family: Calibri;">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BEVVXeJVL3U</span></a><span style="font-family: Calibri;"> (10 minutes)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Part Five: </span><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mOZS_eWRkdU"><span style="color: #0563c1; font-family: Calibri;">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mOZS_eWRkdU</span></a><span style="font-family: Calibri;"> (5 minutes)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Part Six: </span><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PhSWNuXrYPg"><span style="color: #0563c1; font-family: Calibri;">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PhSWNuXrYPg</span></a><span style="font-family: Calibri;"> (10 minutes)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Part Seven: </span><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2pTZ7Ffw9EE"><span style="color: #0563c1; font-family: Calibri;">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2pTZ7Ffw9EE</span></a><span style="font-family: Calibri;"> (10 minutes)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<o:p><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><br /></span></o:p><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Now...that
we have given you background on the Summit Technologies founder/CEO, David
Muller, put the pieces of the puzzle together and discover how LASIK ruined so
many eyes and now those eyes are inflicted with "SICKNESS and
DISEASE" and years later are coming in complaining of exponential and
never ending problems. So lets see what David Muller is up to now, years
later, and why...Avedro's CCL "Cross Collagen Linking" Process To
Help LASIK Flaps STICK and NOT POP: </span><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xXwvaFgad88"><span style="color: #0563c1; font-family: Calibri;">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xXwvaFgad88</span></a><span style="font-family: Calibri;"> .</span><br />
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<b><u><span style="font-family: Calibri;">My speech at the 2008
Emergency LASIK Panel discussion begging the FDA and industry to help us and
listen to us, nothing from them since:<o:p></o:p></span></u></b></div>
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<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pTAHDLAwKkw&list=UUenRbabbPkkObxADbqj7tqA"><span style="color: #0563c1; font-family: Calibri;">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pTAHDLAwKkw&list=UUenRbabbPkkObxADbqj7tqA</span></a><span style="font-family: Calibri;"> .<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;"><b><u>In closing, my question is quite simple and please
don’t take this as being a patrionizing question, but it is this:</u></b></span></div>
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</span><b><i><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="background: yellow; mso-highlight: yellow;">“If you didn’t know
all of this prior to now…meaning…you didn’t see or hear this on the news or
have been warned about this by a doctor…by the FDA directly…then how would you
or any other consumer know this danger prior to getting LASIK?”
If the answer is, “they wouldn’t know this or be warned,” then how is a
consumer to be warned of this danger if the FDA continues to protect industry
and only spin safety studies to “appear” to be safe when they are “not safe?”
And why aren’t physicians being held accountable for violating safety laws and
why aren’t the Directors at the FDA implementing FDA protocol of (3) years
imprisonment and $1million in fines as stated above on the FDA’s website/link
page?
How is a permanently injured/disabled consumer like me to see this as “being
fair” to the consumer when this is allowed to perpetuate and there is no
response by any departments to injured consumers like myself who spent hours
today typing this
and doing this for free/pro bono in an effort to warn the public and protect
the public?</span><o:p></o:p></span></i></b></div>
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<b><i><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Please investigate this…</span></i></b><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><b><i>Please hold those
accountable…
Please follow your job descriptions, mission statements, Hippocratic oath sworn to "first" protect the
consumer and in criminally investigating possible fraud, corruption, and crimes
by FDA officials.
Please reply that you will look into this…</i></b><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Thank you for your consideration…<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;">My best to you,</span><span style="color: #44546a;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Tahoma",sans-serif;"><br />
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<b>Dean A. Kantis</b><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-large;"><strong>Over 300 Facebook Members joined "LASIK COMPLICATIONS FACEBOOK GROUP" in the first month from November to December 2014: </strong></span></div>
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<strong><span style="font-size: large;">To join the <br />"LASIK COMPLICATIONS </span></strong><strong><span style="font-size: large;">FACEBOOK GROUP" </span></strong><br />
<strong><span style="font-size: large;">click below link:</span></strong><br />
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<a href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/LasikComplicationsFaceBookGroup/?fref=nf"><strong><span style="color: blue;">https://www.facebook.com/groups/LasikComplicationsFaceBookGroup/?fref=nf</span></strong></a><strong><span style="color: blue;"> </span></strong><br />
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The Facebook Group provides a "social forum" for injured, disgruntled, and angry RK, PRK, and LASIK refractive patients to speak about how they feel about how they've been treated by their physicians, how they have been ignored by the industry, and how they have been abandoned by their doctors and sales technicians that told them "they would love the procedure and how it would FREE them of contacts and glasses..."<br />
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What's very interesting about what these patients have to say has a common theme, common problem, and common concern. These concerns have been succinctly described as:<br />
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1. These patients feel the FDA has abandoned them, is corrupt, and that the FDA has no compassion for these patients, as if they work for the Ophthalmic Industry and are told what they can and can not do. In other words, there is no regulation nor policing of LASIK physicians by the FDA.<br />
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2. These patients feel that the LASIK industry has completely deceived them. They feel the LASIK industry has falsified safety studies (and continues to do so), and that even when they come in for a check up, the physicians lie to them that they are doing great when they continue to tell them that they are depressed, their lives have been turned upside down, and that they're having Dry Eye pain daily and that the dry eye drops are not helping them and that they can not see better after having LASIK but rather are seeing much worse!<br />
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<strong>Here's how many of patients are describing their "Post LASIK/PRK Refractive Vision:"</strong></div>
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3. These patients have several complaints that if they had known about the truths prior to having refractive surgery, they would NEVER HAVE HAD RK, PRK or LASIK permanent eye reshaping. Here are the main complaints that the patients are having:<br />
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* DAILY DRY EYE PAIN THAT DOES NOT GO AWAY.</div>
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* DAILY LOSS OF CONTRAST ACUITY OF VISION.</div>
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* A PERMANENT LASIK FLAP/PRK/RK SCAR TO SEE THROUGH DAILY.</div>
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* PERMANENT THINNING OF THE COREA WHICH INDUCES PERMANENT </div>
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ASTIGMATISM.<br />
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* DEPRESSION FROM LOSS OF QUALITY OF VISION THAT CAN LEAD TO SUICIDE.</div>
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* DEPENDENCY ON DRY EYE DROPS DUE TO THESE SURGERIES.<br />
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* LOSS OF INCOME...LOSS OF JOB...LOSS OF LIFESTYLE...LOSS OF LIFE.</div>
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* GHOSTING-STARBURSTS-DOUBLE VISION DUE TO THESE SURGERIES.</div>
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* INABILITY TO WEAR OR TOLERATE CONTACTS OR GLASSES.</div>
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* NO KNOWN CURES FOR DRY EYE OR POST REFRACTIVE VISUAL DISORDERS.</div>
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Just as recently as October 2014, the AAO submitted a presentation by the FDA, regarding safety and efficacy of LASIK, and the end result was that LASIK created about 35% of permanent damages and injuries (of which the FDA and LASIK industry instead uses the term Symptoms in place of Adverse Event or Permanent Injury as to not allow the public to get over worried about this procedure causing much damage):<br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Consumer Reports Survey Showed Basically The Same Results:<br />(45% of LASIK patients had side effects...41% regretted doing it)</span></div>
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<br />LASIK ADVISORYhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06454878522212705080noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5806712963278024253.post-74020188712572767422014-08-03T10:38:00.002-07:002014-08-03T10:38:59.622-07:00ICL "Intraocular Contact Lenses" Which Will Be The Next Round Of Corruption By Ophthalmologists!<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="color: red; font-size: large;"><i><b>Do we really want an <u>already "Corrupt FDA</u>" having complete control over Medical Devices, especially after seeing that they gave the FDA Approval to LASIK (a surgery even Dr. Oz is warning you to NOT get...stating 1 in 5 eyes is having permanent dry eye and other injuries??" </b></i></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-size: large;">What's next that the Ophthalmic Eye Industry is pushing and why is it NOT in your best interests to believe what they tell you?? </span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-size: large;">What are ICL's and why should you be worried when your Ophthalmologist or their commissioned clerk tries to push them on you?</span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-size: large;">What is an ICL lens implant and why is the industry </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #444444;">now pushing this instead of pushing LASIK?</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #444444;"><br /></span></span><img height="400" src="http://www.eagleeyecentre.com.sg/images/implant.jpg" width="308" /> </div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Source: </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: large; text-align: center;"><a href="http://lasikcomplications.com/implantable-lens-risks-and-complications.htm" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; text-align: center;" target="_blank">http://lasikcomplications.com/implantable-lens-risks-and-complications.htm</a></span><br />
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<em>"You may not put it in your eye, but it meets the guidance"</em>. ~ Marian Macsai-Kaplan, M.D., Ophthalmologist and FDA Advisor</div>
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"<em>When you start talking about intraocular procedures you are now adding a whole new layer of risks.</em>" ~ Dr. Richard Duffey. <a href="http://www.reuters.com/article/2010/05/12/us-implantable-lenses-idUSTRE64B4NS20100512" style="color: #960000;" target="_blank">Source</a></div>
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<strong>IMPORTANT</strong>: If you experienced problems related to implantable contact lenses, the FDA wants to hear from you. <a href="https://www.accessdata.fda.gov/scripts/medwatch/medwatch-online.htm" style="color: #960000;" target="_blank">File a MedWatch report</a> with the FDA online. Alternatively, you may call FDA at 1-800-FDA-1088 to report by telephone, or download a copy of the<a href="http://www.fda.gov/downloads/Safety/MedWatch/HowToReport/DownloadForms/UCM082725.pdf" style="color: #960000;" target="_blank">paper form</a> and either fax it to 1-800-FDA-0178 or mail it using the postage-paid addressed form. <a href="https://www.accessdata.fda.gov/scripts/cdrh/cfdocs/cfmaude/search.cfm" style="color: #960000;" target="_blank">Read implantable lens injury reports filed with the FDA</a> (enter product code MTA, select a date range, and click search).</div>
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They go by many names. Phakic intraocular lenses ("phakic" meaning your natural lens remains in the eye) is the generic term for these lenses; however, lens manufacturers and eye surgeons gave the lenses shiny new marketing terms. "Implantable Contact Lens" sounds reasonably safe, right?</div>
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So, what's this web page doing on a site about LASIK complications? Good question! We're often asked about alternatives to LASIK. Many eye surgeons have begun offering implantable lenses to their patients who are afraid of LASIK or have been found to be an unsuitable candidate for LASIK. But are they safer? Read on to learn why we don't recommend having these dangerous lenses implanted inside your eyes.</div>
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<strong>What are implantable contact lenses?</strong></div>
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From the FDA website: Phakic intraocular lenses, or phakic lenses, are lenses made of plastic or silicone that are implanted into the eye permanently to reduce a person's need for glasses or contact lenses. Phakic refers to the fact that the lens is implanted into the eye without removing the eye's natural lens. During phakic lens implantation surgery, a small incision is made in the front of the eye. The phakic lens is inserted through the incision and placed just in front of or just behind the iris.</div>
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<a href="http://www.fda.gov/MedicalDevices/ProductsandMedicalProcedures/ImplantsandProsthetics/PhakicIntraocularLenses/default.htm" style="color: #960000;" target="_blank">FDA website - Phakic Intraocular Lenses</a></div>
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<strong>Are implantable contact lenses FDA-approved?</strong></div>
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Currently, there are two phakic intraocular lenses approved in the U.S., the <a href="http://www.accessdata.fda.gov/cdrh_docs/pdf3/P030016d.pdf" style="color: #960000;" target="_blank">STAAR Surgical Company's Visian Myopia Implantable Collamer Lens (MICL)</a> and <a href="http://www.accessdata.fda.gov/cdrh_docs/pdf3/p030028d.pdf" style="color: #960000;" target="_blank">Advanced Medical Optics, Inc. (AMO)'s Verisyse (also known as Ophtec's Artisan) iris-fixated phakic intraocular lens (IOL)</a>. The<a href="http://www.fda.gov/AdvisoryCommittees/CommitteesMeetingMaterials/MedicalDevices/MedicalDevicesAdvisoryCommittee/OphthalmicDevicesPanel/ucm385476.htm" style="color: #960000;" target="_blank"> Visian Toric ICL</a> is currently under review by the FDA.</div>
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The Visian ICL is a posterior chamber collamer lens that was approved by the FDA in 2005. It requires patients to undergo peripheral iridotomy, which is a hole in the iris made with a laser. This is necessary to ensure that fluid flows properly from the back chamber to the front chamber of the eye to prevent a buildup of pressure within the eye after surgery. The lens comes in four sizes, which may present a challenge for the surgeon in selecting the appropriate lens for the patient's eye. Implanting the wrong size may lead to serious complications. Read the <a href="http://www.accessdata.fda.gov/cdrh_docs/pdf3/P030016d.pdf" style="color: #960000;" target="_blank">Visian Patient Information Booklet</a></div>
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The Verisyse lens received FDA-approval in 2004. It is marketed internationally as the Artisan lens by Ophtec and distributed in the U. S. by AMO under the name Verisyse. The Verisyse/Artisan lens is implanted in the anterior chamber of the eye behind the cornea and attached to the front of the iris, and is visible. Implantation of the lens requires a relatively large incision and stitches. Read the <a href="http://www.accessdata.fda.gov/cdrh_docs/pdf3/p030028d.pdf" style="color: #960000;" target="_blank">Verisyse/Artisan Patient Information Booklet</a></div>
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<strong>Doesn't FDA approval mean it's safe?</strong></div>
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There have been countless FDA-approved drugs and medical devices which were later recalled or withdrawn from the market after serious problems, even deaths, were reported. Moreover, in 2008 a group of FDA scientists accused agency officials of approving unsafe medical devices to appease industry. <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/18/health/policy/18fda.html?_r=3&" style="color: #960000;" target="_blank">Read story</a></div>
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Industry pressure was key in FDA's approval of LASIK, according to former FDA official turned whistleblower <a href="http://www.helpstoplasik.com/" style="color: #960000;" target="_blank">Morris Waxler, PhD</a>. As chief scientist, Waxler oversaw early clinical trials review for FDA-approval of LASIK. He now asserts that the approval was a mistake. <a href="http://www.lasiknewswire.com/2009/09/former-fda-official-says-fda-screwed-up-in-approving-lasik.html" style="color: #960000;" target="_blank">Read story</a>.</div>
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<strong>What are the risks of implantable lenses?</strong> The most serious risks of implantable lenses include the following:</div>
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<strong>Corneal endothelial cell loss</strong>, which may lead to need for corneal transplant.</div>
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• From page 7 of the <a href="http://www.accessdata.fda.gov/cdrh_docs/pdf3/P030028d.pdf" style="color: #960000;" target="_blank">Verisyse/Artisan Patient Information Booklet:</a> (content reorganized for clarity).</div>
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"The endothelium is a layer of cells which lines the undersurface of the cornea, and it regulates corneal water content. The endothelium works as a pump, removing excess water as it is absorbed into the stroma [middle portion of the cornea], the surface behind the epithelium. If the water content isn't regulated, the stroma could become saturated, resulting in a hazy and opaque appearance, which would reduce vision.</div>
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"Corneal edema occurs when the cornea takes on more water than-it can absorb, which means the cornea swells and becomes less transparent. Endothelial cells play a role in keeping the cornea healthy. <span class="style1" style="background-color: yellow; font-weight: bold;">The available 3-year data from the clinical study indicates a continual steady loss of endothelial cells of -1.8% per year and this rate has not been established as safe. If endothelial cell loss continues at the rate of 1.8% per year, 39% of patients are expected to lose 50% of their corneal endothelial cells within 25 years of implantation.</span> The long-term effect on the cornea's health of a 50% loss in comeal endothelial cells is unknown. However, if too many cells are lost you may need a corneal transplant. Therefore, it is very important that your endothelial cell density is periodically monitored.</div>
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"Based on the data obtained from the clinical study of the ARTISAN® Phakic IOL, it is impossible to predict the effect that this IOL will have on the corneal endothelium."</div>
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• From pages 11 and 13-14 of the <a href="http://www.accessdata.fda.gov/cdrh_docs/pdf3/P030016d.pdf" style="color: #960000;" target="_blank">Visian Patient Information Booklet</a>:</div>
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Complications After 1st Week: loss of cells from the back surface of the cornea responsible for the cornea remaining clear (<span class="style1" style="background-color: yellow; font-weight: bold;">endothelial cell loss, 8.9% at 3 years</span>).</div>
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WARNINGS: <span class="style1" style="background-color: yellow; font-weight: bold;">The long-term effects on the corneal endothelium have not been established. You should be aware of potential risk of corneal edema (swelling) possibly requiring corneal transplantation</span>. Periodic checks of your endothelium are recommended to monitor the long-term health of the cornea.</div>
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• From page 115 of <a href="http://www.fda.gov/downloads/AdvisoryCommittees/CommitteesMeetingMaterials/MedicalDevices/MedicalDevicesAdvisoryCommittee/OphthalmicDevicesPanel/UCM389751.pdf" style="color: #960000;" target="_blank">FDA Presentation: Mar. 14, 2014</a>, which states that the post-approval study of the Visian myopia implantable collamer lens demonstrated <span class="style1" style="background-color: yellow; font-weight: bold;">endothelial cell loss of 11% at 5 years. Six percent of eyes had endothelial cell loss greater than 30%</span>.</div>
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• Ocular Surgery News U.S. Edition, November 25, 2010: "The Air Force has not begun using phakic IOLs in any of our men and women in uniform, and <span class="style1" style="background-color: yellow; font-weight: bold;">we are waiting for additional long-term safety data regarding endothelial cell loss before we will begin using the lenses in our personnel</span>". – Charles Reilly, MD, Lt. Col, USAF. <a href="http://www.healio.com/ophthalmology/refractive-surgery/news/print/ocular-surgery-news/%7B3b983bcc-204c-4abe-bdca-3881a6399a77%7D/icl-safe-effective-us-army-study-finds" style="color: #960000;" target="_blank">Link to source</a></div>
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<strong>Cataract formation</strong></div>
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• <a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21710954" style="color: #960000;" target="_blank">This 2011 literature review</a> found that cataract was the most common complication of posterior chamber intraocular lenses, reported at a rate of 5.2% of eyes implanted. Of those, 43.4% were reported within 1 year, 15.4% between 1 and 3 years, and 35.3% three or more years after after ICL implantation. Cataract surgery was carried out in 27.9% of eyes with induced cataracts.</div>
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• Visian phakic intraocular lens shown to lead to development of cataracts over time. Source: Schmidinger G, et al. Long-term changes in posterior chamber phakic intraocular collamer lens vaulting in myopic patients. Ophthalmology. 2010 Aug;117(8):1506-11. <a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20363503" style="color: #960000;" target="_blank">Link to abstract</a></div>
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• "But ocular trauma can cause the PIOL to shift, become dislodged, and even come into contact with the crystalline lens and induce a cataract. The most common traumas that Dr. Devgan has seen in these patients are due to airbag injuries during car accidents." Daly, Rich. "Long-term strategy for phakic IOLs." <em>EyeWorld</em>. March, 2014. <a href="http://eyeworld.org/article-long-term-strategy-for-phakic-iols" style="color: #960000;" target="_blank">Link to article</a></div>
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<strong>Glaucoma</strong></div>
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• Early acute intraocular pressure increase is reported frequently after phakic IOL implantation. Pupillary block glaucoma can occur due to occlusion of aqueous flow between the lens and the iris. This is a dangerous situation which may lead to permanent vision loss if not detected and remedied immediately. In <a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3841253/" style="color: #960000;" target="_blank">this small study</a>, pupillary block glaucoma occurred in 5.8% eyes within the first postoperative day.</div>
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<strong>Retinal detachment</strong></div>
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• A retrospective study of Martínez-Castillo and colleagues (2005) with follow-up of 64.3 ± 10.35 months shows an incidence of retinal detachment of 2.7%, occuring from 1 to 70 months after implantation of posterior chamber implantable lenses. <a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/15808247" style="color: #960000;" target="_blank">Link to abstract</a></div>
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<strong>Infection</strong></div>
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<strong>Inflammation</strong></div>
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<strong>Visual disturbances</strong></div>
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• In a 2011 study by Parkhurt and colleagues, 3% of post-ICL eyes reported halos significant enough to require treatment with a glaucoma medication to constrict the pupil. (Source: Parkhurst G, et al. Phakic Intraocular Lens Implantation in United States Military Warfighters: A Retrospective Analysis of Early Clinical Outcomes of the Visian ICL. J Refract Surg. Vol. 27, No. 7, 2011)</div>
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<strong>What about large pupils and implantable lenses?</strong></div>
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Complaints of night vision problems and visual disturbances have plagued the refractive surgery industry from the beginning. Implantable lenses are no different. The FDA website says you are <strong><em>probably</em></strong> not a good candidate for phakic lenses if you have large pupils. (Keep in mind, the FDA works hand in glove with eye surgeons whose livelihoods are dependent upon selling unnecessary surgery.) <strong>We</strong> would say you are <em><strong>definitely</strong></em> not a good candidate for phakic lenses if you have large pupils.</div>
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How large is too large?</div>
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Generally speaking, if your dark-adapted pupil diameter exceeds the diameter of the lens optic diameter, you're not a good candidate.</div>
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The <a href="http://www.accessdata.fda.gov/cdrh_docs/pdf3/P030016c.pdf" style="color: #960000;" target="_blank">Visian ICL labeling</a> states that the lens features an optic diameter with an overall diameter that varies with dioptric power; the smallest being 4.9 mm/12.1 mm and the largest 5.8 mm/13.7 mm.</div>
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The <a href="http://www.amo-inc.com/products/cataract/refractive-iols/verisyse-phakic-iol" style="color: #960000;">Verisyse lens</a> is available in 5 mm and 6 mm optic diameters, according to the company's website.</div>
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You're going to have to ask some probing questions of your eye surgeon to determine if your pupil size makes you a poor candidate. Be sure to have your pupils measured in the dark after a period of dark adaptation, and repeat this measurement on a different day.</div>
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<strong>Links to more information about implantable lenses:</strong></div>
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10/3/2003 FDA Ophthalmic Devices Panel meeting review of premarket application of Visian Myopia ICL - <a href="http://www.fda.gov/ohrms/dockets/ac/03/transcripts/3991t1.htm" style="color: #960000;" target="_blank">Read transcript</a></div>
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2/5/2004 FDA Ophthalmic Devices Panel meeting review of premarket application of Artisan Phakic IOL - <a href="http://www.fda.gov/ohrms/dockets/ac/04/transcripts/4023t1.htm" style="color: #960000;" target="_blank">Read transcript</a></div>
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3/14/2014 FDA Ophthalmic Devices Panel meeting review of premarket application of Visian Toric ICL - <a href="http://www.fda.gov/downloads/AdvisoryCommittees/CommitteesMeetingMaterials/MedicalDevices/MedicalDevicesAdvisoryCommittee/OphthalmicDevicesPanel/UCM392476.pdf" style="color: #960000;" target="_blank">Read transcript</a>; <a href="http://www.fda.gov/AdvisoryCommittees/CommitteesMeetingMaterials/MedicalDevices/MedicalDevicesAdvisoryCommittee/OphthalmicDevicesPanel/ucm385476.htm" style="color: #960000;">Meeting materials</a></div>
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Follow the latest research on <a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/?term=phakic+lens" style="color: #960000;" target="_blank">PubMed.gov</a>.</div>
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Igarashi, et al. Eight-Year Follow-up of Posterior Chamber Phakic Intraocular Lens Implantation for Moderate to High Myopia. Am J Ophthalmol. 2014 Mar;157(3):532-539. <a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24239774" style="color: #960000;" target="_blank">Link to abstract</a></div>
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<em>Disclaimer: The information contained on this web site is presented for the purpose of warning people about complications of LASIK, implantable lenses, and other forms of refractive surgery prior to surgery. Patients experiencing problems should seek the advice of a physician.</em></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">That your LASIK doctor, whom in 10 minutes will earn $5k, and his commissioned staff is trained to only tell you what they want you to know...nothing more! Take a good look at the permanently scarred eye above, because that's what you are electing to do to your eye if you get LASIK irreversible eye reshaping surgery!</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #990000;"><strong><u>First, the FLAP is permanent, and that means that it never heals</u></strong>.</span> Take a good look through a blue slit lamp at your eye and you will comprehend the permanent scarred cornea that you now have chosen to inflict into your eye! Not to mention, you elected to have the bulk of the corneal wall "lasered away" creating a thin wall which could burst, bubble, and/or pop at any moment post LASIK!</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Think and use your common sense for just a second. Take 100,000 pharmacies and a 100,000 grocery stores in the USA alone, and if each was selling 10 boxes of "Post LASIK Dryness Drops" daily, that means that 2 MILLION people suffer from LASIK - you know, an unnecessary eye procedure that was NOT EVEN NEEDED IN THE FIRST PLACE, nor guaranteed anything!"</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">So, why do people continue to believe their friends or LASIK centers promises in how great it is? <u><span style="color: #990000;">Answer:</span></u> "Most of the patients have done LASIK only in the last 3 or so years, which means their eyes haven't yet changed that much. But, what happens after a few more years when their eyes change for the worse, then what is your Plan B when you can't sue your doctor or drive a car any longer or go about your status quo/normal life? Then what?" Yet, with glasses or contacts, you always know where you're at and what your normal status quo is and YOU CONTROL THAT! Why would you ever relinquish the control of your vision to someone else?</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><strong><u>Okay...now the benefits of LASIK that some people experience:</u></strong><br />-Temporary relief from glasses and/or contacts, but for how long?</span></div>
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It is now an undeniable fact that the pharmaceutical industry weaseled its
way onto key U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) advisory panels, which
were instrumental in shaping the way drugs are safety tested and approved. </span><em><span style="color: red; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">According to The Washington Post (WP), a recent public
records request has revealed that drug companies purchased special access
onto these panels, where they were given the keys to the kingdom in swaying
decision-makers about official drug policy.</span></em><span style="color: black; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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on critical information gathered from hundreds of leaked emails,
pharmaceutical companies have doled out hundreds of thousands of dollars over
the years to attend private meetings with the FDA, many of which were geared
towards the regulation and approval of painkiller drugs. </span><em><span style="color: red; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">Drug companies would reportedly shell out upwards of $25,000
or more per meeting to have their voices heard, a small price to pay for
direct access to the $9 billion American painkiller market.</span></em><span style="color: black; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 20pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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to the WP, officials from both the FDA and the U.S. National Institutes of
Health (NIH) would regularly meet with pharmaceutical representatives in
private to discuss regulatory protocols, co-write scientific papers and
collaborate on various ways to help streamline the drug approval process. </span><em><span style="color: red; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">And the only parties who actually paid to attend such
meetings were the drug companies, a fact that one official from the NIH
expressed serious concerns about in an email, referring to the whole scheme
as a "pay to play process."</span></em><span style="color: black; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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who have since reviewed the emails agree, noting that, while the FDA did not
necessarily benefit financially from these private meetings, many FDA
officials went on to work as pharmaceutical consultants. </span><em><span style="color: red; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">In other words, FDA staff who agreed to grease the palms of
the drug industry during these private meetings were later rewarded with
high-paying positions in the drug industry. This is just one glaring example
of how the line between the regulator (FDA) and the regulated (pharmaceutical
companies) has been blurred beyond recognition.</span></em><span style="color: black; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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e-mails help explain the disastrous decisions the FDA's analgesic division
has made over the last 10 years," said Craig Mayton, the Columbus, Ohio,
attorney who made the public records request to the University of Washington,
to the WP. "</span><em><span style="color: red; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">Instead of protecting the public
health, the FDA has been allowing the drug companies to pay for a seat at a
small table where all the rules were written."</span></em><span style="color: black; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Pharma, FDA corruption runs deepIt is no longer a conspiracy theory, then,
that the drug industry owns the FDA.</span></em><span style="color: black; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"> In
this particular case, it was two academics by the names of Robert Dworkin,
from the University of Rochester, and Dennis Turk, from the University of
Washington, who allegedly orchestrated the painkiller plot. But there have
been many other plots with the same ultimate end, a fact that NaturalNews and
many others in the so-called "alternative" media have been shouting
from the rooftops for years, but that the mainstream media has ignored, until
now.</span></div>
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on the FDA and NIH for sending representatives to this panel, cooked up by
two unethical professors and their drug company cronies," wrote one WP
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should be noted that FDA officials actively participated in the painkiller
scheme, all the while knowing full well that the private meetings they
attended were hatched by Big Pharma. </span><em><b><span style="color: red; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">"Congress
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pay-to-play, with awful consequences for the health of many suffering
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include a flood of dangerous analgesic drugs to the market that were approved
based on questionable or flawed safety studies.</span></u></i></strong><span style="color: black; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"> According to MedpageToday.com, the drug industry was
successful during these meetings in convincing the FDA to adopt an
"enriched enrollment" guidance for safety trials that eliminated
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LASIK ADVISORYhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06454878522212705080noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5806712963278024253.post-47412678364346515562013-09-25T09:11:00.000-07:002013-10-03T14:51:25.384-07:00The Rules To Effectively Litigating Hard To Win LASIK Injury Cases!<div style="text-align: center;">
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Founder of </span><a href="http://www.lifeafterlasik.com/"><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: blue; font-size: large;">www.LifeAfterLasik.com</span></span></a><span style="font-size: large;">
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what is the<span class="msoIns"><ins cite="mailto:Julia%20Gallo" datetime="2013-10-03T12:24"><span style="color: teal;"> </span></ins></span>statute of limitations, and why is
this important for the patient to understand prior to having irreversible LASIK
eye surgery that permanently thins out the patient's cornea, and can
potentially create severe dry eye syndrome and other visual complications such
as halos, glare, double vision, starburst, foreign body sensation, <i>etc</i>.</span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p><span style="font-size: large;"> </span></o:p></span></div>
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statute of limitations refers to the period within which you must start a
lawsuit. If you fail to act in timely fashion, a court will dismiss your lawsuit,
no matter how strong your claim may have been. Consequently, victims can be
left without any legal remedy. The statutes of limitations for </span><a href="http://www.krounerlaw.com/practice-areas/medical-malpractice/"><span style="color: black; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;"><span style="font-size: large;">medical
malpractice</span></span></a><span style="font-size: large;"> vary from state to state in duration (and exceptions). </span></span></div>
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The main point that needs to be understood is that patients who had LASIK need
to consider the fact that post-LASIK ectasia may not surface for years after
surgery. In some instances, their right to sue may be over before they even
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learn more about LASIK, the time bomb of ectasia, and the statute of
limitations consider: </span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; line-height: 200%; mso-bidi-font-style: italic; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="color: black; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;"><span style="color: blue; font-size: large;"><a href="http://www.krounerlaw.com/the-statute-of-limitations-and-time-bomb-of-post-lasik-ectasia"><span style="color: blue;">http://www.krounerlaw.com/the-statute-of-limitations-and-time-bomb-of-post-lasik-ectasia</span></a> .</span></span><span style="font-size: large;">
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<b><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; mso-bidi-font-style: italic; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-size: large;">"HOW CAN<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>PATIENTS PROTECT THEIR RIGHTS IF THE SURGERY
DOES NOT GO AS PLANNED AND WHAT LEGAL RECOURSE DO THEY HAVE?" </span></span></b><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; mso-bidi-font-style: italic; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p><span style="font-size: large;"> </span></o:p></span></div>
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the comprehensive nature of LASIK informed consent forms, the patient wonders
how he can sue when this fine print regrettably applies to him. First, the
consent form does not protect the doctor from his own negligence. For example,
if the patient initially was not a good candidate for surgery, if the doctor
was negligent in performing the surgery, or if the laser malfunctioned, the
informed consent form will not protect the doctor. </span></span></div>
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So, when might the informed consent form matter? An article in <u>Cornea</u>
reports that 20% of LASIK patients suffer varying degrees of dry eye after
LASIK surgery.</span><a href="http://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=5806712963278024253#_ftn1" name="_ftnref1" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn1;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-style: italic; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;"><span style="font-size: large;">[1]</span></span></span></span></span></a><span style="font-size: large;">
More candid surgeons admit the true number is closer to 50%. As a general rule,
the complication or side effect of dry eyes is not due to any error or mistake
by the doctor. It is generally considered to be a known and accepted risk of
the surgery. The doctor tells you this so that you are not surprised if it
happens to you. Dry eyes generally are not a sign of malpractice. <br />
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However, failing to inform a patient about this common side effect would
constitute a breach of the duty of informed consent. Informed consent is a
process. It is not a piece of paper. The pre-printed informed consent form is
prepared for the vast majority of refractive laser surgery patients. But if the
patient is at higher risk because he has a pre-existing corneal condition or
disease, such as keratoconus, has suspicion for ectasia, or has a thin cornea,
the doctor has a duty to inform his patient that he is not a good candidate for
a refractive surgery. To learn more about informed consent and eye surgery read:
</span> <span style="color: black; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;"><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="http://www.krounerlaw.com/informed-consent"><span style="color: blue;">http://www.krounerlaw.com/informed-consent</span></a> .</span></span></div>
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FOLLOWING:</span></span></b><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; mso-bidi-font-style: italic; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p><span style="font-size: large;"> </span></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; line-height: 200%; mso-bidi-font-style: italic; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-size: large;">Todd
J. Krouner founded The Law Office of </span><a href="http://www.krounerlaw.com/"><span style="color: black; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;"><span style="font-size: large;">Todd</span></span></a><span style="font-size: large;"> J.
Krouner in October 1994. For the past decade, he has worked on a diverse range
of plaintiffs’ LASIK litigation matters. In July 2005, he obtained a verdict of
$7.25 million, which is the largest verdict ever for a case involving </span><a href="http://www.krounerlaw.com/practice-areas/lasik-malpractice/"><span style="color: black; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;"><span style="font-size: large;">LASIK medical
malpractice</span></span></a><span style="font-size: large;">, <u>Schiffer v. Speaker, et al</u>. In 2009, Mr. Krouner
obtained the second largest LASIK verdict of $5.4 million, including a record
$3 million for his client’s pain and suffering alone, in <u>Devadas v. Niksarli</u>.
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To date, nationwide, Mr. Krouner has successfully tried or settled nearly two
dozen LASIK, or related eye, medical malpractice cases. At </span><a href="http://www.krounerlaw.com/"><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: blue; font-size: large;">www.krounerlaw.com</span></span></a><span style="font-size: large;"> ,
he has a LASIK blog that offers some great tips and advice for potential patients
or persons who have been injured as a result of eye surgery: </span></div>
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Mr. Krouner was also the only attorney who spoke on behalf of injured LASIK
patients at the April 25, 2008 emergency LASIK Ophthalmic FDA panel discussion
held in Gaithersburg, Maryland. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He also
alleged that the LASIK industry is known for "underreporting
dissatisfied/permanent injury outcomes." </span></div>
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the physician and LASIK mills continue to say "the patient was a success
and made better," even though the patient completely disagreed. Lastly, Mr.
Krouner encouraged the FDA to police and inspect LASIK factories to make sure
they were following FDA laws and following mandatory MDR physician reporting of
all "adverse outcomes” so that the FDA is aware of all LASIK injured
patient cases.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>If you had a poor
refractive surgical outcome and would like to know more about litigating
against your eye doctor or the laser manufacturer, then I recommend that you reach
out to Todd Krouner and ask him to evaluate your case to see if there is the
potential to recover for your pain and suffering, loss of income and medical
expenses due to your loss of vision.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Website: <span style="color: blue;">http://www.LasikHope.com</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">Website: <span style="background-color: white; color: blue;">http://www.ScleralLens.com </span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">Website: </span><a href="http://www.eyefreedom.com/"><span style="font-size: large;">http://www.EyeFreedom.com</span></a> <br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 18.0pt; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><em><span style="background-color: #fff2cc;">"Over the years I've had the misfortune of examining thousands of patients who have lost quality vision and suffered severe depression as a result of LASIK surgery. <u> Two of these patients were so depressed by their post-surgical vision loss that they attempted suicide. In fact, there are several documented cases of post-LASIK suicides." </u></span></em></span></span></span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 18.0pt; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><em><span style="color: red;"><u>The known risks and complications of LASIK surgery includes:</u></span> Severely distorted corneas, causing loss of best corrected visual acuity, vision distortions known as higher order aberrations, under correction and over correction of the patient's vision error, nighttime vision disorders including halos, starbursts, glare, ghosting and double vision. </em></span></span></span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 18.0pt; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><em></em></span></span></span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 18.0pt; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><em><u><span style="color: red;">Other LASIK risk factors also include:</span></u><br /> Infection, corneal ectasia (a gradual protrusion of the corneal surface), severe dry eye and loss of contrast sensitivity( the ability of distinguish between different shades of white and grey). My feeling is that LASIK surgery and other refractive surgical procedures exist solely to enrich doctors and the corporations that manufacture the laser equipment and not to benefit mankind. </em></span></span></span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 18.0pt; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"></span></span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 18.0pt; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><u><span style="color: red;"><em>If you can see well with your eyeglasses or contact lenses, don't even think about getting involved with LASIK</em></span></u><em><span style="color: red;">. </span>If you are having vision or comfort issues with your contact lenses, make an appointment with a "contact lens specialist" and have him/her refit you with a lens design that will address these issues. The result, is there is a process that we go through (which is not an easy task by no means) in order to properly fit the new "Complex and Complicated Cornea" for customized Scleral Lenses in order to help recreate a "New Cornea" to see through for these patients. Our practice now is solely fixated on helping the "Post Refractive Community." </em></span></span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><em><u><span style="color: red;"></span></u><br /></em><span style="background-color: #fff2cc;"><em>"In fact, there are so many post refractive and permanently injured eyes coming in to our practice that we started to tape our patients (with their consent of course) to illustrate and show factual proof of how post RK, LASIK, LASEK, EPI-LASIK and PRK refractive patients are becoming permanently injured at an alarminig rate, and can no longer get visual correction due to their new cornea shapes which in technical terms we call "Complicated and Complex Corneas."<br /><br /> "Just about all of these patients had some sort of story about how their elective refractive surgery took everything from them, how they lost hope, in some cases lost the will to live, lost their marriages, lost their ability to drive a car in the daytime or nightime, lost their careers, lost their ability to provide for their family, and many are now on disability."<br /><br />"Because a large part of my ophthalmic practice involves restoring vision to those who have experienced varying degrees of vision loss from LASIK, my advice is not to get involved with this procedure. If you have experienced compromised vision as a result of LASIK, you are more than welcome to contact me to discuss what can be done to help you regain quality vision. "</em></span></span><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><em></em></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><em><span style="color: red;"><strong>Simply click this link below to watch <br />"LASIK/Post Refractive Patient Stories:"<br /> <a href="http://eyefreedom.com/patient_videos.php" target="_blank">http://eyefreedom.com/patient_videos.php</a></strong></span></em></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 9pt;"><em>1.<span style="font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: 7pt/normal "Times New Roman";"> </span></em><a href="http://eyefreedom.com/patient_videos_play.php?fn=eOfVyXvGojs" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline; text-underline: single;" title="Post-lasik ectasia patient wearing scleral lenses."><b><span style="color: blue; text-decoration: none;"><em> Post-Lasik Ectasia patient wearing Scleral Lenses.</em></span></b></a></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 9pt;"><em> 2.<span style="font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: 7pt/normal "Times New Roman";"> </span></em><a href="http://eyefreedom.com/patient_videos_play.php?fn=qRXGJNAgGxc" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline; text-underline: single;" title="Corneal topography explained."><b><span style="color: blue; text-decoration: none;"><em>Corneal topography explained.</em></span></b></a><em> </em></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 9pt;"><em> 3.<span style="font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: 7pt/normal "Times New Roman";"> </span></em><a href="http://eyefreedom.com/patient_videos_play.php?fn=m4HqJ1TKIF0" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline; text-underline: single;" title="Synergeyes lens design explained."><b><span style="color: blue; text-decoration: none;"><em> Synergeyes lens design explained.</em></span></b></a><em> </em></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 9pt;"><em> 4.<span style="font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: 7pt/normal "Times New Roman";"> </span></em><a href="http://eyefreedom.com/patient_videos_play.php?fn=cBGTRy_Z_Bk" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline; text-underline: single;" title="Corneal transplant and keratoconus patient wearing specialty lenses."><b><span style="color: blue; text-decoration: none;"><em>Corneal transplant and keratoconus patient wearing specialty lenses.</em></span></b></a></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 9pt;"><em> 5.<span style="font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: 7pt/normal "Times New Roman";"> </span></em><a href="http://eyefreedom.com/patient_videos_play.php?fn=amtVrl12j8s" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline; text-underline: single;" title="Patient with corneal transplants wearing scleral lenses."><b><span style="color: blue; text-decoration: none;"><em>Patient with corneal transplants wearing scleral lenses.</em></span></b></a></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 9pt;"><em> 6.<span style="font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: 7pt/normal "Times New Roman";"> </span></em><a href="http://eyefreedom.com/patient_videos_play.php?fn=rCwlMuUdc0s" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline; text-underline: single;" title="Patient with stevens-johnson syndrome wearing scleral lens."><b><span style="color: blue; text-decoration: none;"><em>Patient with stevens-johnson syndrome wearing scleral lens.</em></span></b></a></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 9pt;"><em> 7.<span style="font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: 7pt/normal "Times New Roman";"> </span></em><a href="http://eyefreedom.com/patient_videos_play.php?fn=rLzGdiWJBCU" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline; text-underline: single;" title="Patient with vision loss due to lasik wearing synergeyes lenses."><b><span style="color: blue; text-decoration: none;"><em>Patient with vision loss due to lasik wearing synergeyes lenses.</em></span></b></a></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 9pt;"><em> 8.<span style="font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: 7pt/normal "Times New Roman";"> </span></em><a href="http://eyefreedom.com/patient_videos_play.php?fn=eV4_3T27g0g" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline; text-underline: single;" title="Patient with vision loss due to multiple refractive surgical procedures."><b><span style="color: blue; text-decoration: none;"><em>Patient with vision loss due to multiple refractive surgical procedures.</em></span></b></a><em> </em></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 9pt;"><em> 9.<span style="font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: 7pt/normal "Times New Roman";"> </span></em><a href="http://eyefreedom.com/patient_videos_play.php?fn=D6gTL5Rlarg" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline; text-underline: single;" title="Patient with advanced keratoconus wearing rose k and scleral lens. (spanish)"><b><span style="color: blue; text-decoration: none;"><em>Patient with advanced keratoconus wearing rose k and scleral lens. (spanish)</em></span></b></a></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 9pt;"><em> 10.<span style="font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: 7pt/normal "Times New Roman";"> </span></em><a href="http://eyefreedom.com/patient_videos_play.php?fn=hvSzXQaS8M8" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline; text-underline: single;" title="Patient with advanced keratoconus wearing scleral lenses."><b><span style="color: blue; text-decoration: none;"><em>Patient with advanced keratoconus wearing scleral lenses.</em></span></b></a></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 9pt;"><em> 11.<span style="font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: 7pt/normal "Times New Roman";"> </span></em><a href="http://eyefreedom.com/patient_videos_play.php?fn=3Yb1U0q36fc" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline; text-underline: single;" title="Patient with advanced keratoconus wearing scleral lenses."><b><span style="color: blue; text-decoration: none;"><em>Patient with advanced keratoconus wearing scleral lenses.</em></span></b></a></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 9pt;"><em> 12.<span style="font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: 7pt/normal "Times New Roman";"> </span></em><a href="http://eyefreedom.com/patient_videos_play.php?fn=SvVNZcb0CwI" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline; text-underline: single;" title="Patient with advanced keratoconus. (creole)"><b><span style="color: blue; text-decoration: none;"><em>Patient with advanced keratoconus. (creole)</em></span></b></a><em> </em></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 9pt;"><em> 13.<span style="font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: 7pt/normal "Times New Roman";"> </span></em><a href="http://eyefreedom.com/patient_videos_play.php?fn=SwT2KPR_gXU" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline; text-underline: single;" title="Extremely far-sighted patient wearing specialty soft lenses"><b><span style="color: blue; text-decoration: none;"><em> Extremely far-sighted patient wearing specialty soft lenses</em></span></b></a></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 9pt;"><em> 14.<span style="font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: 7pt/normal "Times New Roman";"> </span></em><a href="http://eyefreedom.com/patient_videos_play.php?fn=rtHf9eNlMVQ" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline; text-underline: single;" title="Patient with advanced keratoconus with hydrops wearing scleral lenses."><b><span style="color: blue; text-decoration: none;"><em>Patient with advanced keratoconus with hydrops wearing scleral lenses.</em></span></b></a><em> </em></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 9pt;"><em> 15.<span style="font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: 7pt/normal "Times New Roman";"> </span></em><a href="http://eyefreedom.com/patient_videos_play.php?fn=LNFQWfZvfJc" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline; text-underline: single;" title="Patient with advanced keratoconus wearing rose k lenses."><b><span style="color: blue; text-decoration: none;"><em>Patient with advanced keratoconus wearing rose k lenses.</em></span></b></a></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 9pt;"><em> 16.<span style="font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: 7pt/normal "Times New Roman";"> </span></em><a href="http://eyefreedom.com/patient_videos_play.php?fn=j53c21dwPx4" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline; text-underline: single;" title="Patient with advanced keratoconus wearing rose k lenses."><b><span style="color: blue; text-decoration: none;"><em>Patient with advanced keratoconus wearing rose k lenses.</em></span></b></a></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 9pt;"><em> 17.<span style="font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: 7pt/normal "Times New Roman";"> </span></em><a href="http://eyefreedom.com/patient_videos_play.php?fn=6N7Ro_f-Roc" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline; text-underline: single;" title="Patient who underwent 2 r-k procedures followed by 2 lasik procedures wearing scleral lenses."><b><span style="color: blue; text-decoration: none;"><em>Patient who underwent 2 r-k procedures followed by 2 lasik procedures wearing scleral lenses.</em></span></b></a><em> </em></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 9pt;"><em> 18.<span style="font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: 7pt/normal "Times New Roman";"> </span></em><a href="http://eyefreedom.com/patient_videos_play.php?fn=NUyXJUWiwKc" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline; text-underline: single;" title="Patient with advanced keratoconus wearing rose k lens and a scleral lens."><b><span style="color: blue; text-decoration: none;"><em>Patient with advanced keratoconus wearing rose k lens and a scleral lens.</em></span></b></a><em> </em></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 9pt;"><em> 19.<span style="font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: 7pt/normal "Times New Roman";"> </span></em><a href="http://eyefreedom.com/patient_videos_play.php?fn=gVsyw-VEYN0" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline; text-underline: single;" title="Patient with advanced pellucid marginal degeneration wearing scleral lenses."><b><span style="color: blue; text-decoration: none;"><em>Patient with advanced pellucid marginal degeneration wearing scleral lenses.</em></span></b></a><em> </em></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 9pt;"><em> 20.<span style="font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: 7pt/normal "Times New Roman";"> </span></em><a href="http://eyefreedom.com/patient_videos_play.php?fn=YDNbuizkxgg" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline; text-underline: single;" title="Patient with post-lasik corneal ectasia wearing synergeyes post-surgical lenses."><b><span style="color: blue; text-decoration: none;"><em>Patient with post-lasik corneal ectasia wearing synergeyes post-surgical lenses.</em></span></b></a><em> </em></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 9pt;"><em> 21.<span style="font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: 7pt/normal "Times New Roman";"> </span></em><a href="http://eyefreedom.com/patient_videos_play.php?fn=xLkhgmJwfC0" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline; text-underline: single;" title="Young boy with advanced keratoconus wearing rose k lenses. (spanish)"><b><span style="color: blue; text-decoration: none;"><em>Young boy with advanced keratoconus wearing rose k lenses. (spanish)</em></span></b></a><em> </em></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 9pt;"><em> 22.<span style="font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: 7pt/normal "Times New Roman";"> </span></em><a href="http://eyefreedom.com/patient_videos_play.php?fn=2ddZbEwYATk" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline; text-underline: single;" title="Patient with bilateral corneal transplants wearing scleral lenses."><b><span style="color: blue; text-decoration: none;"><em>Patient with bilateral corneal transplants wearing scleral lenses.</em></span></b></a></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 9pt;"><em> 23.<span style="font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: 7pt/normal "Times New Roman";"> </span></em><a href="http://eyefreedom.com/patient_videos_play.php?fn=nuJ0bBAQRMM" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline; text-underline: single;" title="Patient with advanced keratoconus wearing a scleral lens and a rose k lens."><b><span style="color: blue; text-decoration: none;"><em>Patient with advanced keratoconus wearing a scleral lens and a rose k lens.</em></span></b></a><em> </em></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 9pt;"><em> 24.<span style="font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: 7pt/normal "Times New Roman";"> </span></em><a href="http://eyefreedom.com/patient_videos_play.php?fn=lwCmpyPdkoU" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline; text-underline: single;" title="Patient with advanced keratoconus wearing rose k lenses. "><b><span style="color: blue; text-decoration: none;"><em>Patient with advanced keratoconus wearing rose k lenses. </em></span></b></a></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 9pt;"><em> 25.<span style="font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: 7pt/normal "Times New Roman";"> </span></em><a href="http://eyefreedom.com/patient_videos_play.php?fn=EUf3OVGFbhc" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline; text-underline: single;" title="Patient with a high visual error in one very dry eye wearing a 1-day moist acuvue lens. "><b><span style="color: blue; text-decoration: none;"><em>Patient with a high visual error in one very dry eye wearing a 1-day moist acuvue lens. </em></span></b></a></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 9pt;"><em> 26.<span style="font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: 7pt/normal "Times New Roman";"> </span></em><a href="http://eyefreedom.com/patient_videos_play.php?fn=O2MF1UJvHt8" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline; text-underline: single;" title="Patient with post-lasik corneal ectasia wearing synergeyes post-surgical lenses. "><b><span style="color: blue; text-decoration: none;"><em>Patient with post-lasik corneal ectasia wearing synergeyes post-surgical lenses. </em></span></b></a></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 9pt;"><em> 27.<span style="font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: 7pt/normal "Times New Roman";"> </span></em><a href="http://eyefreedom.com/patient_videos_play.php?fn=PA4s2ngXuag" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline; text-underline: single;" title="Patient with pellucid marginal degeneration wearing scleral lens. "><b><span style="color: blue; text-decoration: none;"><em>Patient with pellucid marginal degeneration wearing scleral lens. </em></span></b></a></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 9pt;"><em> 28.<span style="font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: 7pt/normal "Times New Roman";"> </span></em><a href="http://eyefreedom.com/patient_videos_play.php?fn=nuwdimk15qQ" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline; text-underline: single;" title="Patient with advanced keratoconus with intacs (who also underwent collagen cross-linking therapy) wearing scleral lens. "><b><span style="color: blue; text-decoration: none;"><em>Patient with advanced keratoconus with intacs (who also underwent collagen cross-linking therapy) wearing scleral lens. </em></span></b></a></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 9pt;"><em> 29.<span style="font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: 7pt/normal "Times New Roman";"> </span></em><a href="http://eyefreedom.com/patient_videos_play.php?fn=fw2XOzCaCKM" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline; text-underline: single;" title="Patient with achromatopsia (severe color blindness) wearing specially colored scleral lenses. (spanish)"><b><span style="color: blue; text-decoration: none;"><em>Patient with achromatopsia (severe color blindness) wearing specially colored scleral lenses. (spanish)</em></span></b></a></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 9pt;"><em> 30.<span style="font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: 7pt/normal "Times New Roman";"> </span></em><a href="http://eyefreedom.com/patient_videos_play.php?fn=jsuCRnZMwD0" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline; text-underline: single;" title="Patient with post-lasik corneal ectasia wearing 1-day acuvue moist lenses. "><b><span style="color: blue; text-decoration: none;"><em>Patient with post-lasik corneal ectasia wearing 1-day acuvue moist lenses. </em></span></b></a></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 9pt;"><em> 31.<span style="font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: 7pt/normal "Times New Roman";"> </span></em><a href="http://eyefreedom.com/patient_videos_play.php?fn=55Xpv6msfyY" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline; text-underline: single;" title="Patient with advanced keratoconus wearing synergeyes lenses. (spanish)"><b><span style="color: blue; text-decoration: none;"><em>Patient with advanced keratoconus wearing synergeyes lenses. (spanish)</em></span></b></a><em> </em></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 9pt;"><em> 32.<span style="font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: 7pt/normal "Times New Roman";"> </span></em><a href="http://eyefreedom.com/patient_videos_play.php?fn=JAZir7EwofI" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline; text-underline: single;" title="Patient with advanced keratoconus wearing rose k lenses. "><b><span style="color: blue; text-decoration: none;"><em>Patient with advanced keratoconus wearing rose k lenses. </em></span></b></a></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 9pt;"><em> 33.<span style="font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: 7pt/normal "Times New Roman";"> </span></em><a href="http://eyefreedom.com/patient_videos_play.php?fn=GzjLTdt9rGQ" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline; text-underline: single;" title="Post-lasik corneal ectasia patient wearing synergeyes hybrid post-surgical lenses. "><b><span style="color: blue; text-decoration: none;"><em> Post-lasik corneal ectasia patient wearing synergeyes hybrid post-surgical lenses. </em></span></b></a></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 9pt;"><em> 34.<span style="font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: 7pt/normal "Times New Roman";"> </span></em><a href="http://eyefreedom.com/patient_videos_play.php?fn=gFZLvgZhXbQ" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline; text-underline: single;" title="Keratoconus patient wearing reverse-geometry soft lenses. "><b><span style="color: blue; text-decoration: none;"><em> Keratoconus patient wearing reverse-geometry soft lenses. </em></span></b></a></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 9pt;"><em> 35.<span style="font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: 7pt/normal "Times New Roman";"> </span></em><a href="http://eyefreedom.com/patient_videos_play.php?fn=1QGT3ZVcPbA" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline; text-underline: single;" title="Advanced keratoconus patient wearing synergeyes hybrid keratoconus. "><b><span style="color: blue; text-decoration: none;"><em>Advanced keratoconus patient wearing synergeyes hybrid keratoconus. </em></span></b></a></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 9pt;"><em> 36.<span style="font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: 7pt/normal "Times New Roman";"> </span></em><a href="http://eyefreedom.com/patient_videos_play.php?fn=XbzC1LG8Xoo" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline; text-underline: single;" title="Patient with high myopia (nearsightedness)wearing crt (corneal refractive therapy) lenses during sleeping hours only. "><b><span style="color: blue; text-decoration: none;"><em>Patient with high myopia (nearsightedness)wearing crt (corneal refractive therapy) lenses during sleeping hours only. </em></span></b></a></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 9pt;"><em> 37.<span style="font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: 7pt/normal "Times New Roman";"> </span></em><a href="http://eyefreedom.com/patient_videos_play.php?fn=iZ0y2PRJ_dI" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline; text-underline: single;" title="Advanced keratoconus patient wearing synergeyes hybrid keratoconus designed lenses. (spanish)"><b><span style="color: blue; text-decoration: none;"><em>Advanced keratoconus patient wearing synergeyes hybrid keratoconus designed lenses. (spanish)</em></span></b></a><em> </em></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 9pt;"><em> 38.<span style="font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: 7pt/normal "Times New Roman";"> </span></em><a href="http://eyefreedom.com/patient_videos_play.php?fn=kDfQfFHlQvY" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline; text-underline: single;" title="Advanced keratoconus patient wearing synergeyes hybrid keratoconus designed lenses. "><b><span style="color: blue; text-decoration: none;"><em>Advanced keratoconus patient wearing synergeyes hybrid keratoconus designed lenses. </em></span></b></a></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 9pt;"><em> 39.<span style="font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: 7pt/normal "Times New Roman";"> </span></em><a href="http://eyefreedom.com/patient_videos_play.php?fn=B8nVEAlvQzQ" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline; text-underline: single;" title="Advanced keratoconus patient wearing menicon gas permeable lenses. (spanish)"><b><span style="color: blue; text-decoration: none;"><em>Advanced keratoconus patient wearing menicon gas permeable lenses. (spanish)</em></span></b></a><em> </em></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 9pt;"><em> 40.<span style="font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: 7pt/normal "Times New Roman";"> </span></em><a href="http://eyefreedom.com/patient_videos_play.php?fn=JxDxyN5f9Hg" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline; text-underline: single;" title="Nearsighted(myopic)patient wearing crt(corneal refractive therapy) lenses only during sleeping hours. "><b><span style="color: blue; text-decoration: none;"><em> Nearsighted(myopic)patient wearing crt(corneal refractive therapy) lenses only during sleeping hours. </em></span></b></a></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 9pt;"><em> 41.<span style="font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: 7pt/normal "Times New Roman";"> </span></em><a href="http://eyefreedom.com/patient_videos_play.php?fn=-6nyrcpezV4" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline; text-underline: single;" title="Advanced keratoconus patient wearing scleral gas permeable lenses. "><b><span style="color: blue; text-decoration: none;"><em>Advanced keratoconus patient wearing scleral gas permeable lenses. </em></span></b></a></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 9pt;"><em> 42.<span style="font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: 7pt/normal "Times New Roman";"> </span></em><a href="http://eyefreedom.com/patient_videos_play.php?fn=tk6PqfMJ6SQ" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline; text-underline: single;" title="Patient with scarred irregular cornea due to corneal ulcer wearing scleral gas permeable lens. "><b><span style="color: blue; text-decoration: none;"><em>Patient with scarred irregular cornea due to corneal ulcer wearing scleral gas permeable lens. </em></span></b></a></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 9pt;"><em> 43.<span style="font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: 7pt/normal "Times New Roman";"> </span></em><a href="http://eyefreedom.com/patient_videos_play.php?fn=1Gnrt2Prf3A" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline; text-underline: single;" title="Extremely advanced keratoconus patient wearing scleral gas permeable lens. "><b><span style="color: blue; text-decoration: none;"><em> Extremely advanced keratoconus patient wearing scleral gas permeable lens. </em></span></b></a></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 9pt;"><em> 44.<span style="font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: 7pt/normal "Times New Roman";"> </span></em><a href="http://eyefreedom.com/patient_videos_play.php?fn=LJUXiyb_PMs" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline; text-underline: single;" title="Patient with advanced keratoconus wearing rose k gas permeable lenses. "><b><span style="color: blue; text-decoration: none;"><em>Patient with advanced keratoconus wearing rose k gas permeable lenses. </em></span></b></a></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 9pt;"><em> 45.<span style="font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: 7pt/normal "Times New Roman";"> </span></em><a href="http://eyefreedom.com/patient_videos_play.php?fn=wmDlmRSr2So" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline; text-underline: single;" title="Patient with poor vision at far and at near wearing acuvue bifocal disposable soft lenses. (spanish)"><b><span style="color: blue; text-decoration: none;"><em>Patient with poor vision at far and at near wearing acuvue bifocal disposable soft lenses. (spanish)</em></span></b></a><em> </em></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 9pt;"><em> 46.<span style="font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: 7pt/normal "Times New Roman";"> </span></em><a href="http://eyefreedom.com/patient_videos_play.php?fn=XyK39Nk32U8" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline; text-underline: single;" title="Patient with extemely high vision error wearing menicon gas permeable lenses. "><b><span style="color: blue; text-decoration: none;"><em>Patient with extemely high vision error wearing menicon gas permeable lenses. </em></span></b></a></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 9pt;"><em> 47.<span style="font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: 7pt/normal "Times New Roman";"> </span></em><a href="http://eyefreedom.com/patient_videos_play.php?fn=WaN2844rVQM" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline; text-underline: single;" title="Patient who underwent two separate r-k procedures followed by two separate lasik procedures successfully wearing scleral gas permeable. lenses. "><b><span style="color: blue; text-decoration: none;"><em>Patient who underwent two separate r-k procedures followed by two separate lasik procedures successfully wearing scleral gas permeable. lenses. </em></span></b></a></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 9pt;"><em> 48.<span style="font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: 7pt/normal "Times New Roman";"> </span></em><a href="http://eyefreedom.com/patient_videos_play.php?fn=aJLGY4k7jus" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline; text-underline: single;" title="Patient with advanced keratoconus wearing rose k lenses."><b><span style="color: blue; text-decoration: none;"><em>Patient with advanced keratoconus wearing rose k lenses.</em></span></b></a></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 9pt;"><em> 49.<span style="font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: 7pt/normal "Times New Roman";"> </span></em><a href="http://eyefreedom.com/patient_videos_play.php?fn=ax82M3AvJ48" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline; text-underline: single;" title="With advanced keratoconus wearing synergeyes hybrid lenses."><b><span style="color: blue; text-decoration: none;"><em>With advanced keratoconus wearing synergeyes hybrid lenses.</em></span></b></a></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 9pt;"><em> 50.<span style="font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: 7pt/normal "Times New Roman";"> </span></em><a href="http://eyefreedom.com/patient_videos_play.php?fn=5g2ZUwW2J4E" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline; text-underline: single;" title="Patient with extremely advanced keratoconus wearing scleral lenses."><b><span style="color: blue; text-decoration: none;"><em>Patient with extremely advanced keratoconus wearing scleral lenses.</em></span></b></a></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 9pt;"><em> 51.<span style="font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: 7pt/normal "Times New Roman";"> </span></em><a href="http://eyefreedom.com/patient_videos_play.php?fn=INF3JVAtm7Y" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline; text-underline: single;" title="With advanced keratoconus wearing rose k lenses."><b><span style="color: blue; text-decoration: none;"><em>With advanced keratoconus wearing rose k lenses.</em></span></b></a></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 9pt;"><em> 52.<span style="font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: 7pt/normal "Times New Roman";"> </span></em><a href="http://eyefreedom.com/patient_videos_play.php?fn=d13iZBMz4GI" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline; text-underline: single;" title="Patient with very advanced keratoconus wearing rose k lenses. (spanish)"><b><span style="color: blue; text-decoration: none;"><em>Patient with very advanced keratoconus wearing rose k lenses. (spanish)</em></span></b></a><em> </em></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 9pt;"><em> 53.<span style="font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: 7pt/normal "Times New Roman";"> </span></em><a href="http://eyefreedom.com/patient_videos_play.php?fn=vbmuAvgcx4Y" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline; text-underline: single;" title="Post-lasik ectasia patient wearing scleral gas permeable lenses."><b><span style="color: blue; text-decoration: none;"><em> Post-lasik ectasia patient wearing scleral gas permeable lenses.</em></span></b></a><em> </em></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 9pt;"><em> 54.<span style="font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: 7pt/normal "Times New Roman";"> </span></em><a href="http://eyefreedom.com/patient_videos_play.php?fn=sCvF8-9NdjY" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline; text-underline: single;" title="Patient with advanced keratoconus (pellucid marginal degeneration) wearing synegeyes hybrid lenses."><b><span style="color: blue; text-decoration: none;"><em>Patient with advanced keratoconus (pellucid marginal degeneration) wearing synegeyes hybrid lenses.</em></span></b></a><em> </em></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 9pt;"><em> 55.<span style="font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: 7pt/normal "Times New Roman";"> </span></em><a href="http://eyefreedom.com/patient_videos_play.php?fn=8c4q0lodikQ" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline; text-underline: single;" title="Patient with very advanced keratoconus wearing rose k lenses. (spanish)"><b><span style="color: blue; text-decoration: none;"><em>Patient with very advanced keratoconus wearing rose k lenses. (spanish)</em></span></b></a><em> </em></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 9pt;"><em> 56.<span style="font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: 7pt/normal "Times New Roman";"> </span></em><a href="http://eyefreedom.com/patient_videos_play.php?fn=iL4ubrbiFPU" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline; text-underline: single;" title="With advanced keratoconus wearing synergeyes hybrid lenses. (spanish)"><b><span style="color: blue; text-decoration: none;"><em>With advanced keratoconus wearing synergeyes hybrid lenses. (spanish)</em></span></b></a><em> </em></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 9pt;"><em> 57.<span style="font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: 7pt/normal "Times New Roman";"> </span></em><a href="http://eyefreedom.com/patient_videos_play.php?fn=PK2aZojtZEM" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline; text-underline: single;" title="Patient with advanced keratoconus wearing scleral lenses."><b><span style="color: blue; text-decoration: none;"><em>Patient with advanced keratoconus wearing scleral lenses.</em></span></b></a></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 9pt;"><em> 58.<span style="font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: 7pt/normal "Times New Roman";"> </span></em><a href="http://eyefreedom.com/patient_videos_play.php?fn=7bCdDD1hmwM" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline; text-underline: single;" title="Patient wearing scleral lenses after having had multiple r-k surgeries."><b><span style="color: blue; text-decoration: none;"><em>Patient wearing scleral lenses after having had multiple r-k surgeries.</em></span></b></a><em> </em></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 9pt;"><em> 59.<span style="font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: 7pt/normal "Times New Roman";"> </span></em><a href="http://eyefreedom.com/patient_videos_play.php?fn=SttXa-WxVKE" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline; text-underline: single;" title="Patient with keratoconus in one eye wearing a synergeyes hybrid lens and a corneal transplant in the other eye wearing a scleral lens."><b><span style="color: blue; text-decoration: none;"><em>Patient with keratoconus in one eye wearing a synergeyes hybrid lens and a corneal transplant in the other eye wearing a scleral lens.</em></span></b></a><em> </em></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 9pt;"><em> 60.<span style="font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: 7pt/normal "Times New Roman";"> </span></em><a href="http://eyefreedom.com/patient_videos_play.php?fn=0iHyAoiG2Hk" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline; text-underline: single;" title="Post-lasik patient with higher order aberrations and severely reduced vision wearing scleral lenses."><b><span style="color: blue; text-decoration: none;"><em> Post-lasik patient with higher order aberrations and severely reduced vision wearing scleral lenses.</em></span></b></a></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 9pt;"><em> 61.<span style="font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: 7pt/normal "Times New Roman";"> </span></em><a href="http://eyefreedom.com/patient_videos_play.php?fn=7qD0wQDABJc" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline; text-underline: single;" title="Patient with advanced keratoconus wearing specialty contact lenses. (portugese)"><b><span style="color: blue; text-decoration: none;"><em>Patient with advanced keratoconus wearing specialty contact lenses. (portugese)</em></span></b></a><em> </em></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 9pt;"><em> 62.<span style="font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: 7pt/normal "Times New Roman";"> </span></em><a href="http://eyefreedom.com/patient_videos_play.php?fn=lGXTZV8gt4U" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline; text-underline: single;" title="Patient with advanced keratoconus wearing synergeyes hybrid clear kone lenses. (spanish)"><b><span style="color: blue; text-decoration: none;"><em>Patient with advanced keratoconus wearing synergeyes hybrid clear kone lenses. (spanish)</em></span></b></a><em> </em></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 9pt;"><em> 63.<span style="font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: 7pt/normal "Times New Roman";"> </span></em><a href="http://eyefreedom.com/patient_videos_play.php?fn=9HaH85F1qGo" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline; text-underline: single;" title="Patient with extremely severe dry eye and photophobia wearing scleral lenses."><b><span style="color: blue; text-decoration: none;"><em>Patient with extremely severe dry eye and photophobia wearing scleral lenses.</em></span></b></a><em> </em></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 9pt;"><em> 64.<span style="font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: 7pt/normal "Times New Roman";"> </span></em><a href="http://eyefreedom.com/patient_videos_play.php?fn=3x5QX4ovCj4" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline; text-underline: single;" title="Patient with advanced keratoconus wearing rose k gas permeable lenses. (spanish)"><b><span style="color: blue; text-decoration: none;"><em>Patient with advanced keratoconus wearing rose k gas permeable lenses. (spanish)</em></span></b></a><em> </em></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 9pt;"><em> 65.<span style="font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: 7pt/normal "Times New Roman";"> </span></em><a href="http://eyefreedom.com/patient_videos_play.php?fn=rPCH7AOq5ic" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline; text-underline: single;" title="Post r-k patient with open incisions and highly irregular corneas wearing a scleral lens on one eye and a synergeyes hybrid clear kone lens on. the other eye (spanish)"><b><span style="color: blue; text-decoration: none;"><em>Post r-k patient with open incisions and highly irregular corneas wearing a scleral lens on one eye and a synergeyes hybrid clear kone lens on. the other eye (spanish)</em></span></b></a></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 9pt;"><em> 66.<span style="font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: 7pt/normal "Times New Roman";"> </span></em><a href="http://eyefreedom.com/patient_videos_play.php?fn=Mm0Pa_XOorw" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline; text-underline: single;" title="Patient with advanced keratoconus wearing specialty gas permeable lenses. (spanish)"><b><span style="color: blue; text-decoration: none;"><em>Patient with advanced keratoconus wearing specialty gas permeable lenses. (spanish)</em></span></b></a><em> </em></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 9pt;"><em> 67.<span style="font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: 7pt/normal "Times New Roman";"> </span></em><a href="http://eyefreedom.com/patient_videos_play.php?fn=5XzjAYP9v_A" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline; text-underline: single;" title="Corneal transplant patient wearing scleral gas permeable lenses."><b><span style="color: blue; text-decoration: none;"><em>Corneal transplant patient wearing scleral gas permeable lenses.</em></span></b></a></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 9pt;"><em> 68.<span style="font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: 7pt/normal "Times New Roman";"> </span></em><a href="http://eyefreedom.com/patient_videos_play.php?fn=WkHWykMORVY" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline; text-underline: single;" title="Post r-k refractive surgical patient wearing scleral lenses."><b><span style="color: blue; text-decoration: none;"><em>Post r-k refractive surgical patient wearing scleral lenses.</em></span></b></a></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 9pt;"><em> 69.<span style="font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: 7pt/normal "Times New Roman";"> </span></em><a href="http://eyefreedom.com/patient_videos_play.php?fn=-zwcAjbe2b4" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline; text-underline: single;" title="Patient with advanced keratoconus wearing scleral lenses."><b><span style="color: blue; text-decoration: none;"><em>Patient with advanced keratoconus wearing scleral lenses.</em></span></b></a></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 9pt;"><em> 70.<span style="font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: 7pt/normal "Times New Roman";"> </span></em><a href="http://eyefreedom.com/patient_videos_play.php?fn=6UcIS58RbyA" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline; text-underline: single;" title="Patient with extremely advanced keratoconus wearing scleral lenses."><b><span style="color: blue; text-decoration: none;"><em>Patient with extremely advanced keratoconus wearing scleral lenses.</em></span></b></a></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 9pt;"><em> 71.<span style="font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: 7pt/normal "Times New Roman";"> </span></em><a href="http://eyefreedom.com/patient_videos_play.php?fn=pAV0nFZmLCE" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline; text-underline: single;" title="Post-lasik surgical patient with reduced vision and higher order aberrations wearing scleral lenses."><b><span style="color: blue; text-decoration: none;"><em> Post-lasik surgical patient with reduced vision and higher order aberrations wearing scleral lenses.</em></span></b></a></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 9pt;"><em> 72.<span style="font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: 7pt/normal "Times New Roman";"> </span></em><a href="http://eyefreedom.com/patient_videos_play.php?fn=Ndd-q9Ya-8A" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline; text-underline: single;" title="Post r-k patient with long, deep, scarred incisions wearing synergeyes hybrid lenses."><b><span style="color: blue; text-decoration: none;"><em>Post r-k patient with long, deep, scarred incisions wearing synergeyes hybrid lenses.</em></span></b></a><em> </em></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 9pt;"><em> 73.<span style="font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: 7pt/normal "Times New Roman";"> </span></em><a href="http://eyefreedom.com/patient_videos_play.php?fn=FCcI2pkhJpA" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline; text-underline: single;" title="R-k, post-lasik patient with bilateral corneal transplants and intacs wearing scleral lenses."><b><span style="color: blue; text-decoration: none;"><em>R-k, post-lasik patient with bilateral corneal transplants and intacs wearing scleral lenses.</em></span></b></a><em> </em></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 9pt;"><em> 74.<span style="font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: 7pt/normal "Times New Roman";"> </span></em><a href="http://eyefreedom.com/patient_videos_play.php?fn=nV6qAFHY8Gs" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline; text-underline: single;" title="Patient with acanthamoeba keratitis scar followed by prk wearing a scleral lens."><b><span style="color: blue; text-decoration: none;"><em>Patient with acanthamoeba keratitis scar followed by prk wearing a scleral lens.</em></span></b></a><em> </em></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 9pt;"><em> 75.<span style="font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: 7pt/normal "Times New Roman";"> </span></em><a href="http://eyefreedom.com/patient_videos_play.php?fn=a6QdpndDipQ" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline; text-underline: single;" title="Patient with advanced keratoconus with intacs wearing scleral lenses."><b><span style="color: blue; text-decoration: none;"><em>Patient with advanced keratoconus with intacs wearing scleral lenses.</em></span></b></a><em> </em></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 9pt;"><em> 76.<span style="font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: 7pt/normal "Times New Roman";"> </span></em><a href="http://eyefreedom.com/patient_videos_play.php?fn=vV63Xvm8jH0" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline; text-underline: single;" title="Patient with advanced keratoconus wearing scleral lenses. (spanish)"><b><span style="color: blue; text-decoration: none;"><em>Patient with advanced keratoconus wearing scleral lenses. (spanish)</em></span></b></a></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 9pt;"><em> 77.<span style="font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: 7pt/normal "Times New Roman";"> </span></em><a href="http://eyefreedom.com/patient_videos_play.php?fn=y6j3ylMo9z0" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline; text-underline: single;" title="Orthokeratology patient wearing special gas permeable lenses for vision improvement, has 20/20 vision in both eyes without any type of lens."><b><span style="color: blue; text-decoration: none;"><em> Orthokeratology patient wearing special gas permeable lenses for vision improvement, has 20/20 vision in both eyes without any type of lens.</em></span></b></a><em> </em></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 9pt;"><em> 78.<span style="font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: 7pt/normal "Times New Roman";"> </span></em><a href="http://eyefreedom.com/patient_videos_play.php?fn=5cZ3J46bz_M" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline; text-underline: single;" title="Post-lasik ectasia patient who underwent collagen cross linking wearing scleral lenses. (spanish)"><b><span style="color: blue; text-decoration: none;"><em> Post-lasik ectasia patient who underwent collagen cross linking wearing scleral lenses. (spanish)</em></span></b></a></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 9pt;"><em> 79.<span style="font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: 7pt/normal "Times New Roman";"> </span></em><a href="http://eyefreedom.com/patient_videos_play.php?fn=B7iU__sGs0U" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline; text-underline: single;" title="Post-lasik ectasia patient wearing synergeyes hybrid lenses."><b><span style="color: blue; text-decoration: none;"><em> Post-lasik ectasia patient wearing synergeyes hybrid lenses.</em></span></b></a></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 9pt;"><em> 80.<span style="font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: 7pt/normal "Times New Roman";"> </span></em><a href="http://eyefreedom.com/patient_videos_play.php?fn=XA6A4S1AEpE" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline; text-underline: single;" title="Advanced keratoconus patient wearing rose k gas permeable lenses. (spanish)"><b><span style="color: blue; text-decoration: none;"><em>Advanced keratoconus patient wearing rose k gas permeable lenses. (spanish)</em></span></b></a><em> </em></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 9pt;"><em> 81.<span style="font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: 7pt/normal "Times New Roman";"> </span></em><a href="http://eyefreedom.com/patient_videos_play.php?fn=eAl58xDjDGg" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline; text-underline: single;" title="Patient with extremely high myopia and keratoconus wearing rose k gas permeable lenses. (spanish)"><b><span style="color: blue; text-decoration: none;"><em>Patient with extremely high myopia and keratoconus wearing rose k gas permeable lenses. (spanish)</em></span></b></a><em> </em></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 9pt;"><em> 82.<span style="font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: 7pt/normal "Times New Roman";"> </span></em><a href="http://eyefreedom.com/patient_videos_play.php?fn=hWEhHdB41u4" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline; text-underline: single;" title="Patient with extremely high myopia and keratoconus wearing rose k gas permeable lenses. (spanish)"><b><span style="color: blue; text-decoration: none;"><em>Patient with extremely high myopia and keratoconus wearing rose k gas permeable lenses. (spanish)</em></span></b></a><em> </em></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 9pt;"><em> 83.<span style="font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: 7pt/normal "Times New Roman";"> </span></em><a href="http://eyefreedom.com/patient_videos_play.php?fn=BTOehFc67l8" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline; text-underline: single;" title="Patient with advanced keratoconus wearing rose k lenses."><b><span style="color: blue; text-decoration: none;"><em>Patient with advanced keratoconus wearing rose k lenses.</em></span></b></a></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 9pt;"><em> 84.<span style="font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: 7pt/normal "Times New Roman";"> </span></em><a href="http://eyefreedom.com/patient_videos_play.php?fn=SLc24z277QY" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline; text-underline: single;" title="Patient with irregular scarred cornea due to trauma wearing scleral lens. (hindi)"><b><span style="color: blue; text-decoration: none;"><em>Patient with irregular scarred cornea due to trauma wearing scleral lens. (hindi)</em></span></b></a><em> </em></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 9pt;"><em> 85.<span style="font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: 7pt/normal "Times New Roman";"> </span></em><a href="http://eyefreedom.com/patient_videos_play.php?fn=7mYcvd6qxJY" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline; text-underline: single;" title="Patient with advanced keratoconus wearing scleral lenses. (spanish)"><b><span style="color: blue; text-decoration: none;"><em>Patient with advanced keratoconus wearing scleral lenses. (spanish)</em></span></b></a></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 9pt;"><em> 86.<span style="font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: 7pt/normal "Times New Roman";"> </span></em><a href="http://eyefreedom.com/patient_videos_play.php?fn=WKCqk2QoAU8" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline; text-underline: single;" title="Patient wearing multifocal gas permeable lenses for clear vision at distance, intermediate and near vision."><b><span style="color: blue; text-decoration: none;"><em>Patient wearing multifocal gas permeable lenses for clear vision at distance, intermediate and near vision.</em></span></b></a></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 9pt;"><em> 87.<span style="font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: 7pt/normal "Times New Roman";"> </span></em><a href="http://eyefreedom.com/patient_videos_play.php?fn=7RHJftEvey8" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline; text-underline: single;" title="Dr. boshnick wearing gas permeable scleral lenses."><b><span style="color: blue; text-decoration: none;"><em>Dr. boshnick wearing gas permeable scleral lenses.</em></span></b></a></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 9pt;"><em> 88.<span style="font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: 7pt/normal "Times New Roman";"> </span></em><a href="http://eyefreedom.com/patient_videos_play.php?fn=aQiuAh6WtHM" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline; text-underline: single;" title="Patient with advanced keratoconus wearing rose k lenses. (portugese)"><b><span style="color: blue; text-decoration: none;"><em>Patient with advanced keratoconus wearing rose k lenses. (portugese)</em></span></b></a></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 9pt;"><em> 89.<span style="font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: 7pt/normal "Times New Roman";"> </span></em><a href="http://eyefreedom.com/patient_videos_play.php?fn=j8LykDe2FZk" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline; text-underline: single;" title="Patient with advanced keratoconus wearing rose k lenses."><b><span style="color: blue; text-decoration: none;"><em>Patient with advanced keratoconus wearing rose k lenses.</em></span></b></a></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 9pt;"><em> 90.<span style="font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: 7pt/normal "Times New Roman";"> </span></em><a href="http://eyefreedom.com/patient_videos_play.php?fn=qw_SkhZHzYI" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline; text-underline: single;" title="Patient with advanced keratoconus wearing scleral lenses."><b><span style="color: blue; text-decoration: none;"><em>Patient with advanced keratoconus wearing scleral lenses.</em></span></b></a></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 9pt;"><em> 91.<span style="font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: 7pt/normal "Times New Roman";"> </span></em><a href="http://eyefreedom.com/patient_videos_play.php?fn=FaTM8yJ9prI" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline; text-underline: single;" title="Patient with transplanted corneas wearing scleral lenses. (spanish)"><b><span style="color: blue; text-decoration: none;"><em>Patient with transplanted corneas wearing scleral lenses. (spanish)</em></span></b></a></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 9pt;"><em> 92.<span style="font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: 7pt/normal "Times New Roman";"> </span></em><a href="http://eyefreedom.com/patient_videos_play.php?fn=mQjCC4CTH9w" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline; text-underline: single;" title="Post r-k patient (4 separate procedures) wearing scleral lenses."><b><span style="color: blue; text-decoration: none;"><em>Post r-k patient (4 separate procedures) wearing scleral lenses.</em></span></b></a></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 9pt;"><em> 93.<span style="font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: 7pt/normal "Times New Roman";"> </span></em><a href="http://eyefreedom.com/patient_videos_play.php?fn=cP7idmAJnKQ" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline; text-underline: single;" title="Post refractive surgical patient wearing scleral lenses. (spanish)"><b><span style="color: blue; text-decoration: none;"><em>Post refractive surgical patient wearing scleral lenses. (spanish)</em></span></b></a><em> </em></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 9pt;"><em> 94.<span style="font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: 7pt/normal "Times New Roman";"> </span></em><a href="http://eyefreedom.com/patient_videos_play.php?fn=K_nybcHT01c" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline; text-underline: single;" title="Patient with keratoconus in one eye and a transplanted cornea in the other eye wearing scleral lenses."><b><span style="color: blue; text-decoration: none;"><em>Patient with keratoconus in one eye and a transplanted cornea in the other eye wearing scleral lenses.</em></span></b></a><em> </em></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 9pt;"><em> 95.<span style="font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: 7pt/normal "Times New Roman";"> </span></em><a href="http://eyefreedom.com/patient_videos_play.php?fn=1FrPJvqNpKs" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline; text-underline: single;" title="Patient with post-lasik corneal ectasia wearing scleral lenses."><b><span style="color: blue; text-decoration: none;"><em>Patient with post-lasik corneal ectasia wearing scleral lenses.</em></span></b></a></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 9pt;"><em> 96.<span style="font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: 7pt/normal "Times New Roman";"> </span></em><a href="http://eyefreedom.com/patient_videos_play.php?fn=f_FmFHDttJU" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline; text-underline: single;" title="Patient with scarred irregular cornea due to ocular trauma wearing a scleral lens. (spanish)"><b><span style="color: blue; text-decoration: none;"><em>Patient with scarred irregular cornea due to ocular trauma wearing a scleral lens. (spanish)</em></span></b></a><em> </em></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 9pt;"><em> 97.<span style="font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: 7pt/normal "Times New Roman";"> </span></em><a href="http://eyefreedom.com/patient_videos_play.php?fn=8T0lCo6QZp8" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline; text-underline: single;" title="Keratoconus patient wearing scleral lenses after undergoing intacs surgery and collagen cross linking."><b><span style="color: blue; text-decoration: none;"><em> Keratoconus patient wearing scleral lenses after undergoing intacs surgery and collagen cross linking.</em></span></b></a></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 9pt;"><em> 98.<span style="font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: 7pt/normal "Times New Roman";"> </span></em><a href="http://eyefreedom.com/patient_videos_play.php?fn=2ga4OWjee9c" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline; text-underline: single;" title="Patient with advanced keratoconus. (spanish)"><b><span style="color: blue; text-decoration: none;"><em>Patient with advanced keratoconus. (spanish)</em></span></b></a><em> </em></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 9pt;"><em> 99.<span style="font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: 7pt/normal "Times New Roman";"> </span></em><a href="http://eyefreedom.com/patient_videos_play.php?fn=jAdOeB1dMZ8" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline; text-underline: single;" title="Post-lasik patient with corneal ectasia wearing scleral lenses."><b><span style="color: blue; text-decoration: none;"><em> Post-lasik patient with corneal ectasia wearing scleral lenses.</em></span></b></a><em> </em></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 9pt;"><em> 100.<span style="font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: 7pt/normal "Times New Roman";"> </span></em><a href="http://eyefreedom.com/patient_videos_play.php?fn=GZQJ7nKX9Qo" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline; text-underline: single;" title="Patient who underwent 3 separate r-k surgeries and lasik surgery wearing scleral lenses."><b><span style="color: blue; text-decoration: none;"><em>Patient who underwent 3 separate r-k surgeries and lasik surgery wearing scleral lenses.</em></span></b></a><em> </em></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 9pt;"><em> 101.<span style="font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: 7pt/normal "Times New Roman";"> </span></em><a href="http://eyefreedom.com/patient_videos_play.php?fn=mZOFXGzTUIw" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline; text-underline: single;" title="Patient with advanced keratoconus wearing scleral lenses after undergoing cross-linking and intacs surgery."><b><span style="color: blue; text-decoration: none;"><em>Patient with advanced keratoconus wearing scleral lenses after undergoing cross-linking and intacs surgery.</em></span></b></a></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 9pt;"><em> 102.<span style="font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: 7pt/normal "Times New Roman";"> </span></em><a href="http://eyefreedom.com/patient_videos_play.php?fn=OvdG_cDNjrQ" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline; text-underline: single;" title="Patient who underwent radial keratotomy and lasik surgery resulting in corneal ectasia wearing scleral lenses."><b><span style="color: blue; text-decoration: none;"><em>Patient who underwent radial keratotomy and lasik surgery resulting in corneal ectasia wearing scleral lenses.</em></span></b></a></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 9pt;"><em> 103.<span style="font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: 7pt/normal "Times New Roman";"> </span></em><a href="http://eyefreedom.com/patient_videos_play.php?fn=c5u2NZmIHVc" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline; text-underline: single;" title="Patient with advanced keratoconus wearing rose k lenses."><b><span style="color: blue; text-decoration: none;"><em>Patient with advanced keratoconus wearing rose k lenses.</em></span></b></a></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 9pt;"><em> 104.<span style="font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: 7pt/normal "Times New Roman";"> </span></em><a href="http://eyefreedom.com/patient_videos_play.php?fn=G3xnRidOiVk" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline; text-underline: single;" title="Former professional baseball player gary carabello wearing scleral lenses after undergoing corneal transplant surgery."><b><span style="color: blue; text-decoration: none;"><em>Former professional baseball player gary carabello wearing scleral lenses after undergoing corneal transplant surgery.</em></span></b></a></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 9pt;"><em> 105.<span style="font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: 7pt/normal "Times New Roman";"> </span></em><a href="http://eyefreedom.com/patient_videos_play.php?fn=aSx1eeS1RXQ" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline; text-underline: single;" title="Patient who underwent 2 separate lasik surgeries resulting in corneal ectasia wearing scleral lenses."><b><span style="color: blue; text-decoration: none;"><em>Patient who underwent 2 separate lasik surgeries resulting in corneal ectasia wearing scleral lenses.</em></span></b></a></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 9pt;"><em> 106.<span style="font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: 7pt/normal "Times New Roman";"> </span></em><a href="http://eyefreedom.com/patient_videos_play.php?fn=qTCV8sstlMg" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline; text-underline: single;" title="Patient with advanced keratoconus with hydrops wearing scleral lenses."><b><span style="color: blue; text-decoration: none;"><em>Patient with advanced keratoconus with hydrops wearing scleral lenses.</em></span></b></a><em> </em></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 9pt;"><em> 107.<span style="font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: 7pt/normal "Times New Roman";"> </span></em><a href="http://eyefreedom.com/patient_videos_play.php?fn=ShcaLD1O2Nc" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline; text-underline: single;" title="Patient with sarcoid and extremely dry, painful eyes wearing scleral lenses."><b><span style="color: blue; text-decoration: none;"><em>Patient with sarcoid and extremely dry, painful eyes wearing scleral lenses.</em></span></b></a><em> </em></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 9pt;"><em> 108.<span style="font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: 7pt/normal "Times New Roman";"> </span></em><a href="http://eyefreedom.com/patient_videos_play.php?fn=uK4GyoQ-NPA" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline; text-underline: single;" title="Post r-k patient with extremely dry eyes wearing scleral lenses."><b><span style="color: blue; text-decoration: none;"><em>Post r-k patient with extremely dry eyes wearing scleral lenses.</em></span></b></a></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 9pt;"><em> 109.<span style="font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: 7pt/normal "Times New Roman";"> </span></em><a href="http://eyefreedom.com/patient_videos_play.php?fn=UEcpujNDjmQ" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline; text-underline: single;" title="Post lasik patient with corneal ectasia and distorted vision wearing scleral lenses."><b><span style="color: blue; text-decoration: none;"><em>Post lasik patient with corneal ectasia and distorted vision wearing scleral lenses.</em></span></b></a><em> </em></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 9pt;"><em> 110.<span style="font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: 7pt/normal "Times New Roman";"> </span></em><a href="http://eyefreedom.com/patient_videos_play.php?fn=Kf4Omf0imvs" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline; text-underline: single;" title="Post alk patient with corneal ectasia wearing scleral lenses. (spanish)"><b><span style="color: blue; text-decoration: none;"><em>Post alk patient with corneal ectasia wearing scleral lenses. (spanish)</em></span></b></a><em> </em></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 9pt;"><em> 111.<span style="font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: 7pt/normal "Times New Roman";"> </span></em><a href="http://eyefreedom.com/patient_videos_play.php?fn=YlYDigcc054" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline; text-underline: single;" title="Very far sighted patient with corneal ectasia wearing scleral lenses."><b><span style="color: blue; text-decoration: none;"><em>Very far sighted patient with corneal ectasia wearing scleral lenses.</em></span></b></a></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 9pt;"><em> 112.<span style="font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: 7pt/normal "Times New Roman";"> </span></em><a href="http://eyefreedom.com/patient_videos_play.php?fn=VH6sd25bvBY" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline; text-underline: single;" title="Patient with corneal dystrophy and chronic dry eyes wearing scleral lenses."><b><span style="color: blue; text-decoration: none;"><em>Patient with corneal dystrophy and chronic dry eyes wearing scleral lenses.</em></span></b></a><em> </em></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 9pt;"><em> 113.<span style="font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: 7pt/normal "Times New Roman";"> </span></em><a href="http://eyefreedom.com/patient_videos_play.php?fn=s2-dNUbN9TM" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline; text-underline: single;" title="Patient with advanced keratoconus wearing scleral lenses. (spanish)"><b><span style="color: blue; text-decoration: none;"><em>Patient with advanced keratoconus wearing scleral lenses. (spanish)</em></span></b></a></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 9pt;"><em> 114.<span style="font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: 7pt/normal "Times New Roman";"> </span></em><a href="http://eyefreedom.com/patient_videos_play.php?fn=UfsX3KbRIMw" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline; text-underline: single;" title="Patient with advanced keratoconus wearing wearing rose k lenses."><b><span style="color: blue; text-decoration: none;"><em>Patient with advanced keratoconus wearing wearing rose k lenses.</em></span></b></a></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 9pt;"><em> 115.<span style="font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: 7pt/normal "Times New Roman";"> </span></em><a href="http://eyefreedom.com/patient_videos_play.php?fn=MMWdVnt4evA" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline; text-underline: single;" title="Advanced keratoconus patient wearing scleral lenses."><b><span style="color: blue; text-decoration: none;"><em>Advanced keratoconus patient wearing scleral lenses.</em></span></b></a></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 9pt;"><em> 116.<span style="font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: 7pt/normal "Times New Roman";"> </span></em><a href="http://eyefreedom.com/patient_videos_play.php?fn=pjO7XuHIpYA" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline; text-underline: single;" title="Patient with advanced keratoconus wearing scleral lenses."><b><span style="color: blue; text-decoration: none;"><em>Patient with advanced keratoconus wearing scleral lenses.</em></span></b></a></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 9pt;"><em> 117.<span style="font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: 7pt/normal "Times New Roman";"> </span></em><a href="http://eyefreedom.com/patient_videos_play.php?fn=QeqbMZC0pRQ" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline; text-underline: single;" title="Patient with advanced keratoconus wearing scleral lenses."><b><span style="color: blue; text-decoration: none;"><em>Patient with advanced keratoconus wearing scleral lenses.</em></span></b></a></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 9pt;"><em> 118.<span style="font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: 7pt/normal "Times New Roman";"> </span></em><a href="http://eyefreedom.com/patient_videos_play.php?fn=sWxSBTUnexA" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline; text-underline: single;" title="Patient with post-lasik ectasia and dry eyes wearing scleral lenses."><b><span style="color: blue; text-decoration: none;"><em>Patient with post-lasik ectasia and dry eyes wearing scleral lenses.</em></span></b></a></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 9pt;"><em> 119.<span style="font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: 7pt/normal "Times New Roman";"> </span></em><a href="http://eyefreedom.com/patient_videos_play.php?fn=fCovYwwKPH4" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline; text-underline: single;" title="Patient with highly irregular corneas (astigmatism) and high myopia wearing specialty lenses. (spanish)"><b><span style="color: blue; text-decoration: none;"><em>Patient with highly irregular corneas (astigmatism) and high myopia wearing specialty lenses. (spanish)</em></span></b></a><em> </em></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 9pt;"><em> 120.<span style="font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: 7pt/normal "Times New Roman";"> </span></em><a href="http://eyefreedom.com/patient_videos_play.php?fn=gsGNzwkOGqU" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline; text-underline: single;" title="Patient with advanced keratoconus wearing rose k lenses."><b><span style="color: blue; text-decoration: none;"><em>Patient with advanced keratoconus wearing rose k lenses.</em></span></b></a></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 9pt;"><em> 121.<span style="font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: 7pt/normal "Times New Roman";"> </span></em><a href="http://eyefreedom.com/patient_videos_play.php?fn=MhvJCUr9dgI" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline; text-underline: single;" title="Patient with advanced keratoconus in one eye and a corneal transplant in the other eye wearing scleral lenses."><b><span style="color: blue; text-decoration: none;"><em>Patient with advanced keratoconus in one eye and a corneal transplant in the other eye wearing scleral lenses.</em></span></b></a></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 9pt;"><em> 122.<span style="font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: 7pt/normal "Times New Roman";"> </span></em><a href="http://eyefreedom.com/patient_videos_play.php?fn=N6TXMl51eLU" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline; text-underline: single;" title="Patient with advanced keratoconus wearing scleral lenses."><b><span style="color: blue; text-decoration: none;"><em>Patient with advanced keratoconus wearing scleral lenses.</em></span></b></a></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 9pt;"><em> 123.<span style="font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: 7pt/normal "Times New Roman";"> </span></em><a href="http://eyefreedom.com/patient_videos_play.php?fn=we_knqO9yD4" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline; text-underline: single;" title="Patient who underwent r-k surgery suffering from dry, distorted corneas wearing scleral lenses."><b><span style="color: blue; text-decoration: none;"><em>Patient who underwent r-k surgery suffering from dry, distorted corneas wearing scleral lenses.</em></span></b></a><em> </em></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 9pt;"><em> 124.<span style="font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: 7pt/normal "Times New Roman";"> </span></em><a href="http://eyefreedom.com/patient_videos_play.php?fn=doklxfKViFk" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline; text-underline: single;" title="Patient with advanced keratoconus and hydrops wearing scleral lenses."><b><span style="color: blue; text-decoration: none;"><em>Patient with advanced keratoconus and hydrops wearing scleral lenses.</em></span></b></a><em> </em></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 9pt;"><em> 125.<span style="font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: 7pt/normal "Times New Roman";"> </span></em><a href="http://eyefreedom.com/patient_videos_play.php?fn=M45Np14FUl8" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline; text-underline: single;" title="Patient with a partial corneal transplant wearing a scleral lens."><b><span style="color: blue; text-decoration: none;"><em>Patient with a partial corneal transplant wearing a scleral lens.</em></span></b></a></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 9pt;"><em> 126.<span style="font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: 7pt/normal "Times New Roman";"> </span></em><a href="http://eyefreedom.com/patient_videos_play.php?fn=ahzSVylBIYo" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline; text-underline: single;" title="Patient with advanced keratoconus wearing scleral lenses."><b><span style="color: blue; text-decoration: none;"><em>Patient with advanced keratoconus wearing scleral lenses.</em></span></b></a></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 9pt;"><em> 127.<span style="font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: 7pt/normal "Times New Roman";"> </span></em><a href="http://eyefreedom.com/patient_videos_play.php?fn=nVq5B875jyc" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline; text-underline: single;" title="Patient with corneal transplants wearing scleral lenses."><b><span style="color: blue; text-decoration: none;"><em>Patient with corneal transplants wearing scleral lenses.</em></span></b></a></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 9pt;"><em> 128.<span style="font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: 7pt/normal "Times New Roman";"> </span></em><a href="http://eyefreedom.com/patient_videos_play.php?fn=vTaYFYcSZhI" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline; text-underline: single;" title="Patient with extremely high myopia and astigmatism wearing specialty contact lenses. (creole)"><b><span style="color: blue; text-decoration: none;"><em>Patient with extremely high myopia and astigmatism wearing specialty contact lenses. (creole)</em></span></b></a><em> </em></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 9pt;"><em> 129.<span style="font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: 7pt/normal "Times New Roman";"> </span></em><a href="http://eyefreedom.com/patient_videos_play.php?fn=HWRTPzQJIq0" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline; text-underline: single;" title="Patient with advanced keratoconus wearing scleral lenses. (spanish)"><b><span style="color: blue; text-decoration: none;"><em>Patient with advanced keratoconus wearing scleral lenses. (spanish)</em></span></b></a></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 9pt;"><em> 130.<span style="font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: 7pt/normal "Times New Roman";"> </span></em><a href="http://eyefreedom.com/patient_videos_play.php?fn=_qaXVq7SYtU" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline; text-underline: single;" title="Patient with post-lasik ectasia and dry eyes wearing scleral lenses."><b><span style="color: blue; text-decoration: none;"><em>Patient with post-lasik ectasia and dry eyes wearing scleral lenses.</em></span></b></a></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 9pt;"><em> 131.<span style="font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: 7pt/normal "Times New Roman";"> </span></em><a href="http://eyefreedom.com/patient_videos_play.php?fn=gVsVFTQKhbk" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline; text-underline: single;" title="Patient with advanced keratoconus wearing scleral lenses. (spanish)"><b><span style="color: blue; text-decoration: none;"><em>Patient with advanced keratoconus wearing scleral lenses. (spanish)</em></span></b></a></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 9pt;"><em> 132.<span style="font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: 7pt/normal "Times New Roman";"> </span></em><a href="http://eyefreedom.com/patient_videos_play.php?fn=dsr27xraNnk" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline; text-underline: single;" title="Patient with advanced keratoconus wearing a rose k lens on one eye and a scleral lens on the other eye."><b><span style="color: blue; text-decoration: none;"><em>Patient with advanced keratoconus wearing a rose k lens on one eye and a scleral lens on the other eye.</em></span></b></a><em> </em></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 9pt;"><em> 133.<span style="font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: 7pt/normal "Times New Roman";"> </span></em><a href="http://eyefreedom.com/patient_videos_play.php?fn=Qm35VW3TqeM" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline; text-underline: single;" title="This patient had 2 lasik procedures in each eye followed by corneal ectasia now wearing scleral lenses. patient is seeing clearly and comfortably once again."><b><span style="color: blue; text-decoration: none;"><em>This patient had 2 lasik procedures in each eye followed by corneal ectasia now wearing scleral lenses. patient is seeing clearly and comfortably once again.</em></span></b></a></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 9pt;"><em> 134.<span style="font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: 7pt/normal "Times New Roman";"> </span></em><a href="http://eyefreedom.com/patient_videos_play.php?fn=KI1R9lQESQU" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline; text-underline: single;" title="Patient with advanced keratoconus who underwent cross-linking now wearing scleral lenses."><b><span style="color: blue; text-decoration: none;"><em>Patient with advanced keratoconus who underwent cross-linking now wearing scleral lenses.</em></span></b></a><em> </em></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 9pt;"><em> 135.<span style="font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: 7pt/normal "Times New Roman";"> </span></em><a href="http://eyefreedom.com/patient_videos_play.php?fn=6rAI6bJ3TxA" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline; text-underline: single;" title="Patient with advanced keratoconus wearing scleral lenses. (spanish)"><b><span style="color: blue; text-decoration: none;"><em>Patient with advanced keratoconus wearing scleral lenses. (spanish)</em></span></b></a></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 9pt;"><em> 136.<span style="font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: 7pt/normal "Times New Roman";"> </span></em><a href="http://eyefreedom.com/patient_videos_play.php?fn=VkItdpjrM-A" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline; text-underline: single;" title="This patient had 2 separate r-k procedures in each eye followed by 4 separate lasik procedures now wearing scleral lenses."><b><span style="color: blue; text-decoration: none;"><em>This patient had 2 separate r-k procedures in each eye followed by 4 separate lasik procedures now wearing scleral lenses.</em></span></b></a></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 9pt;"><em> 137.<span style="font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: 7pt/normal "Times New Roman";"> </span></em><a href="http://eyefreedom.com/patient_videos_play.php?fn=EzoBNrjZwPs" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline; text-underline: single;" title="Patient had 2 r-k procedures in each eye followed by a-k, alk and then 2 separate lasik procedures wearing scleral lenses. can now see clearly and comfortably after many years of blurred painful vision."><b><span style="color: blue; text-decoration: none;"><em>Patient had 2 r-k procedures in each eye followed by a-k, alk and then 2 separate lasik procedures wearing scleral lenses. can now see clearly and comfortably after many years of blurred painful vision.</em></span></b></a><em> </em></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 9pt;"><em> 138.<span style="font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: 7pt/normal "Times New Roman";"> </span></em><a href="http://eyefreedom.com/patient_videos_play.php?fn=nsEqScUMgMI" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline; text-underline: single;" title="This patient had corneal transplant surgery over 25 years ago which resulted in horrible vision now wearing scleral lenses. patient now has 20/20 vision."><b><span style="color: blue; text-decoration: none;"><em>This patient had corneal transplant surgery over 25 years ago which resulted in horrible vision now wearing scleral lenses. patient now has 20/20 vision.</em></span></b></a><em> </em></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 9pt;"><em> 139.<span style="font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: 7pt/normal "Times New Roman";"> </span></em><a href="http://eyefreedom.com/patient_videos_play.php?fn=2KKm7feFJEM" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline; text-underline: single;" title="This patient had lasik surgery which resulted in cornea ectasia. patient is now wearing scleral lenses with excellent vision and comfort."><b><span style="color: blue; text-decoration: none;"><em>This patient had lasik surgery which resulted in cornea ectasia. patient is now wearing scleral lenses with excellent vision and comfort.</em></span></b></a><em> </em></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 9pt;"><em> 140.<span style="font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: 7pt/normal "Times New Roman";"> </span></em><a href="http://eyefreedom.com/patient_videos_play.php?fn=HfNx5b9Q5gw" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline; text-underline: single;" title="This patient had multiple r-k surgeries which resulted in very poor vision. he is now wearing scleral lenses and sees clearly and comfortably. (spanish)"><b><span style="color: blue; text-decoration: none;"><em>This patient had multiple r-k surgeries which resulted in very poor vision. he is now wearing scleral lenses and sees clearly and comfortably. (spanish)</em></span></b></a><em> </em></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 9pt;"><em> 141.<span style="font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: 7pt/normal "Times New Roman";"> </span></em><a href="http://eyefreedom.com/patient_videos_play.php?fn=0QkqIKqcbAI" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline; text-underline: single;" title="Patient with advanced keratoconus now has 20/20 vision in each eye with scleral lenses."><b><span style="color: blue; text-decoration: none;"><em>Patient with advanced keratoconus now has 20/20 vision in each eye with scleral lenses.</em></span></b></a><em> </em></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 9pt;"><em> 142.<span style="font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: 7pt/normal "Times New Roman";"> </span></em><a href="http://eyefreedom.com/patient_videos_play.php?fn=Z0njhCpOXFc" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline; text-underline: single;" title="This patient had corneal transplant surgery over 25 years ago which resulted in very poor vision. patient is now wearing scleral lenses and can see clearly and comfortably once again."><b><span style="color: blue; text-decoration: none;"><em>This patient had corneal transplant surgery over 25 years ago which resulted in very poor vision. patient is now wearing scleral lenses and can see clearly and comfortably once again.</em></span></b></a><em> </em></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 9pt;"><em> 143.<span style="font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: 7pt/normal "Times New Roman";"> </span></em><a href="http://eyefreedom.com/patient_videos_play.php?fn=8nVNLMQx-70" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline; text-underline: single;" title="This patient had 2 lasik procedures in each eye which resulted in poor vision and ocular discomfort. patient is now wearing scleral lenses and can see clearly and comfortably once again."><b><span style="color: blue; text-decoration: none;"><em>This patient had 2 lasik procedures in each eye which resulted in poor vision and ocular discomfort. patient is now wearing scleral lenses and can see clearly and comfortably once again.</em></span></b></a><em> </em></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 9pt;"><em> 144.<span style="font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: 7pt/normal "Times New Roman";"> </span></em><a href="http://eyefreedom.com/patient_videos_play.php?fn=XFHskxfBDMc" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline; text-underline: single;" title="Patient with advanced keratoconus and scarred corneas wearing scleral lenses which have provided clear comfortable vision once again."><b><span style="color: blue; text-decoration: none;"><em>Patient with advanced keratoconus and scarred corneas wearing scleral lenses which have provided clear comfortable vision once again.</em></span></b></a><em> </em></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 9pt;"><em> 145.<span style="font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: 7pt/normal "Times New Roman";"> </span></em><a href="http://eyefreedom.com/patient_videos_play.php?fn=mywHqAl9ccU" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline; text-underline: single;" title="Patient who lost vision due to r-k surgery can now see clearly again with scleral lenses."><b><span style="color: blue; text-decoration: none;"><em>Patient who lost vision due to r-k surgery can now see clearly again with scleral lenses.</em></span></b></a><em> </em></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 9pt;"><em> 146.<span style="font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: 7pt/normal "Times New Roman";"> </span></em><a href="http://eyefreedom.com/patient_videos_play.php?fn=W73SrkfzwdQ" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline; text-underline: single;" title="Patient with advanced keratoconus seeing clearly and comfortably with scleral lenses."><b><span style="color: blue; text-decoration: none;"><em>Patient with advanced keratoconus seeing clearly and comfortably with scleral lenses.</em></span></b></a><em> </em></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 9pt;"><em> 147.<span style="font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: 7pt/normal "Times New Roman";"> </span></em><a href="http://eyefreedom.com/patient_videos_play.php?fn=5ZhybY96nws" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline; text-underline: single;" title="Patient could not see clearly for 60 years due to keratoconus seeing clearly and comfortably with scleral lenses."><b><span style="color: blue; text-decoration: none;"><em>Patient could not see clearly for 60 years due to keratoconus seeing clearly and comfortably with scleral lenses.</em></span></b></a></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 9pt;"><em> 148.<span style="font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: 7pt/normal "Times New Roman";"> </span></em><a href="http://eyefreedom.com/patient_videos_play.php?fn=ubSza-Hr1PU" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline; text-underline: single;" title="Patient who underwent 4 surgeries including lasik and bilateral corneal transplants seeing clearly with scleral lenses."><b><span style="color: blue; text-decoration: none;"><em>Patient who underwent 4 surgeries including lasik and bilateral corneal transplants seeing clearly with scleral lenses.</em></span></b></a></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 9pt;"><em> 149.<span style="font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: 7pt/normal "Times New Roman";"> </span></em><a href="http://eyefreedom.com/patient_videos_play.php?fn=122j8A8erQE" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline; text-underline: single;" title="Patient who lost quality vision due to laser surgery seeing clearly with scleral lenses. (italian)"><b><span style="color: blue; text-decoration: none;"><em>Patient who lost quality vision due to laser surgery seeing clearly with scleral lenses. (italian)</em></span></b></a><em> </em></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 9pt;"><em> 150.<span style="font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: 7pt/normal "Times New Roman";"> </span></em><a href="http://eyefreedom.com/patient_videos_play.php?fn=w11YfI0Bu4s" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline; text-underline: single;" title="Patient with post-lasik corneal ectasia seeing clearly with scleral lenses."><b><span style="color: blue; text-decoration: none;"><em>Patient with post-lasik corneal ectasia seeing clearly with scleral lenses.</em></span></b></a><em> </em></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 9pt;"><em> 151.<span style="font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: 7pt/normal "Times New Roman";"> </span></em><a href="http://eyefreedom.com/patient_videos_play.php?fn=VsCrHcOAQRU" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline; text-underline: single;" title="Patient who lost quality vision due to prk seing clearly with scleral lenses."><b><span style="color: blue; text-decoration: none;"><em>Patient who lost quality vision due to prk seing clearly with scleral lenses.</em></span></b></a><em> </em></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 9pt;"><em> 152.<span style="font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: 7pt/normal "Times New Roman";"> </span></em><a href="http://eyefreedom.com/patient_videos_play.php?fn=8vjdlAQwTpY" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline; text-underline: single;" title="Patient with advanced keratoconus with scarred corneas seeing clearly with scleral lenses."><b><span style="color: blue; text-decoration: none;"><em>Patient with advanced keratoconus with scarred corneas seeing clearly with scleral lenses.</em></span></b></a><em> </em></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 9pt;"><em> 153.<span style="font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: 7pt/normal "Times New Roman";"> </span></em><a href="http://eyefreedom.com/patient_videos_play.php?fn=PcTVkpw9hc4" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline; text-underline: single;" title="Patient with advanced keratoconus seeing clearly with scleral lenses. (spanish)"><b><span style="color: blue; text-decoration: none;"><em>Patient with advanced keratoconus seeing clearly with scleral lenses. (spanish)</em></span></b></a><em> </em></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 9pt;"><em> 154.<span style="font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: 7pt/normal "Times New Roman";"> </span></em><a href="http://eyefreedom.com/patient_videos_play.php?fn=s0f6EV4rFDU" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline; text-underline: single;" title="Patient with advanced keratoconus with poor vision for over 15 years seeing clearly with scleral lenses."><b><span style="color: blue; text-decoration: none;"><em>Patient with advanced keratoconus with poor vision for over 15 years seeing clearly with scleral lenses.</em></span></b></a><em> </em></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 9pt;"><em> 155.<span style="font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: 7pt/normal "Times New Roman";"> </span></em><a href="http://eyefreedom.com/patient_videos_play.php?fn=m6lb3D5hUO8" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline; text-underline: single;" title="Patient who underwent multiple surgeries including bilateral corneal transplants seeing clearly once again with scleral lenses."><b><span style="color: blue; text-decoration: none;"><em>Patient who underwent multiple surgeries including bilateral corneal transplants seeing clearly once again with scleral lenses.</em></span></b></a></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 9pt;"><em> 156.<span style="font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: 7pt/normal "Times New Roman";"> </span></em><a href="http://eyefreedom.com/patient_videos_play.php?fn=HscGWVGYq48" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline; text-underline: single;" title="Patient who suffered vision loss due to r-k and lasik surgeries seeing clearly with scleral lenses."><b><span style="color: blue; text-decoration: none;"><em>Patient who suffered vision loss due to r-k and lasik surgeries seeing clearly with scleral lenses.</em></span></b></a><em> </em></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 9pt;"><em> 157.<span style="font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: 7pt/normal "Times New Roman";"> </span></em><a href="http://eyefreedom.com/patient_videos_play.php?fn=G1UFKgGOKVc" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline; text-underline: single;" title="Patient who underwent 4 corneal transplant operations wearing scleral lenses. (spanish)"><b><span style="color: blue; text-decoration: none;"><em>Patient who underwent 4 corneal transplant operations wearing scleral lenses. (spanish)</em></span></b></a><em> </em></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 9pt;"><em> 158.<span style="font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: 7pt/normal "Times New Roman";"> </span></em><a href="http://eyefreedom.com/patient_videos_play.php?fn=_XE7Fyz33X8" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline; text-underline: single;" title="Patient with advanced keratoconus and hydrops wearing scleral lenses. (spanish)"><b><span style="color: blue; text-decoration: none;"><em>Patient with advanced keratoconus and hydrops wearing scleral lenses. (spanish)</em></span></b></a><em> </em></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 9pt;"><em> 159.<span style="font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: 7pt/normal "Times New Roman";"> </span></em><a href="http://eyefreedom.com/patient_videos_play.php?fn=jZez6rsjzq8" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline; text-underline: single;" title="Patient with advanced keratoconus wearing scleral lenses."><b><span style="color: blue; text-decoration: none;"><em>Patient with advanced keratoconus wearing scleral lenses.</em></span></b></a></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 9pt;"><em> 160.<span style="font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: 7pt/normal "Times New Roman";"> </span></em><a href="http://eyefreedom.com/patient_videos_play.php?fn=PziA-ueOojE" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline; text-underline: single;" title="Patient with advanced keratoconus and hydrops wearing scleral lenses."><b><span style="color: blue; text-decoration: none;"><em>Patient with advanced keratoconus and hydrops wearing scleral lenses.</em></span></b></a><em> </em></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 9pt;"><em> 161.<span style="font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: 7pt/normal "Times New Roman";"> </span></em><a href="http://eyefreedom.com/patient_videos_play.php?fn=YPLP16AKyR4" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline; text-underline: single;" title="Patient with post-lasik ectasia and extremely poor vision wearing scleral lenses."><b><span style="color: blue; text-decoration: none;"><em>Patient with post-lasik ectasia and extremely poor vision wearing scleral lenses.</em></span></b></a><em> </em></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 9pt;"><em> 162.<span style="font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: 7pt/normal "Times New Roman";"> </span></em><a href="http://eyefreedom.com/patient_videos_play.php?fn=_nEYwbw38dE" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline; text-underline: single;" title="Patient with corneal transplant in one eye and keratoconus in the other eye wearing."><b><span style="color: blue; text-decoration: none;"><em>Patient with corneal transplant in one eye and keratoconus in the other eye wearing.</em></span></b></a><em> </em></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 9pt;"><em> 163.<span style="font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: 7pt/normal "Times New Roman";"> </span></em><a href="http://eyefreedom.com/patient_videos_play.php?fn=__rMDu4px9g" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline; text-underline: single;" title="Patient with advanced keratoconus wearing a scleral lens in one eye and a synergeyes hybrid lens. (portugese)"><b><span style="color: blue; text-decoration: none;"><em>Patient with advanced keratoconus wearing a scleral lens in one eye and a synergeyes hybrid lens. (portugese)</em></span></b></a></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 9pt;"><em> 164.<span style="font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: 7pt/normal "Times New Roman";"> </span></em><a href="http://eyefreedom.com/patient_videos_play.php?fn=tMlyeVJYTUQ" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline; text-underline: single;" title="Patient with advanced keratoconus wearing rose k lenses."><b><span style="color: blue; text-decoration: none;"><em>Patient with advanced keratoconus wearing rose k lenses.</em></span></b></a></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 9pt;"><em> 165.<span style="font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: 7pt/normal "Times New Roman";"> </span></em><a href="http://eyefreedom.com/patient_videos_play.php?fn=n_ZzPLsSj7s" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline; text-underline: single;" title="Patient with post-lasik complications wearing scleral lenses."><b><span style="color: blue; text-decoration: none;"><em>Patient with post-lasik complications wearing scleral lenses.</em></span></b></a></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 9pt;"><em> 166.<span style="font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: 7pt/normal "Times New Roman";"> </span></em><a href="http://eyefreedom.com/patient_videos_play.php?fn=r960NhGqlss" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline; text-underline: single;" title="Dr. boshnick explaining corneal topography (patient #1)."><b><span style="color: blue; text-decoration: none;"><em>Dr. boshnick explaining corneal topography (patient #1).</em></span></b></a></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 9pt;"><em> 167.<span style="font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: 7pt/normal "Times New Roman";"> </span></em><a href="http://eyefreedom.com/patient_videos_play.php?fn=8qmZ0Tqv-9o" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline; text-underline: single;" title="Dr. boshnick explaining corneal topography (patient #2)."><b><span style="color: blue; text-decoration: none;"><em>Dr. boshnick explaining corneal topography (patient #2).</em></span></b></a></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 9pt;"><em> 168.<span style="font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: 7pt/normal "Times New Roman";"> </span></em><a href="http://eyefreedom.com/patient_videos_play.php?fn=QL5UAqD7gL8" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline; text-underline: single;" title="Dr. boshnick explaining corneal topography (patient #3)."><b><span style="color: blue; text-decoration: none;"><em>Dr. boshnick explaining corneal topography (patient #3).</em></span></b></a></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 9pt;"><em> 169.<span style="font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: 7pt/normal "Times New Roman";"> </span></em><a href="http://eyefreedom.com/patient_videos_play.php?fn=WzzemFHD2Gw" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline; text-underline: single;" title="Dr. boshnick explaining corneal topography with a "normal" cornea."><b><span style="color: blue; text-decoration: none;"><em>Dr. boshnick explaining corneal topography with a "normal" cornea.</em></span></b></a><em> </em></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 9pt;"><em> 170.<span style="font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: 7pt/normal "Times New Roman";"> </span></em><a href="http://eyefreedom.com/patient_videos_play.php?fn=8KSxpihrKyk" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline; text-underline: single;" title="Dr. boshnick explaining corneal topography (patient #4)."><b><span style="color: blue; text-decoration: none;"><em>Dr. boshnick explaining corneal topography (patient #4).</em></span></b></a></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 9pt;"><em> 171.<span style="font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: 7pt/normal "Times New Roman";"> </span></em><a href="http://eyefreedom.com/patient_videos_play.php?fn=6OcvNMizEdc" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline; text-underline: single;" title="Dr. boshnick explaining ocular coherence tomography on an advanced keratoconic cornea."><b><span style="color: blue; text-decoration: none;"><em>Dr. boshnick explaining ocular coherence tomography on an advanced keratoconic cornea.</em></span></b></a><em> </em></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 9pt;"><em> 172.<span style="font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: 7pt/normal "Times New Roman";"> </span></em><a href="http://eyefreedom.com/patient_videos_play.php?fn=Hbs2gIzMFIM" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline; text-underline: single;" title="Dr. boshnick explaining ocular coherence tomography on an eye with global keratoconus."><b><span style="color: blue; text-decoration: none;"><em>Dr. boshnick explaining ocular coherence tomography on an eye with global keratoconus.</em></span></b></a><em> </em></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 9pt;"><em> 173.<span style="font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: 7pt/normal "Times New Roman";"> </span></em><a href="http://eyefreedom.com/patient_videos_play.php?fn=dLBdtE86aN0" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline; text-underline: single;" title="Dr. boshnick explaining ocular coherence tomography on a keratoconic cornea with the outer corneal layer separating from the underlying tissue."><b><span style="color: blue; text-decoration: none;"><em>Dr. boshnick explaining ocular coherence tomography on a keratoconic cornea with the outer corneal layer separating from the underlying tissue.</em></span></b></a><em> </em></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 9pt;"><em> 174.<span style="font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: 7pt/normal "Times New Roman";"> </span></em><a href="http://eyefreedom.com/patient_videos_play.php?fn=ldxUCNBxz3I" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline; text-underline: single;" title="Patient who has had keratoconus for over 50 years wearing scleral lenses."><b><span style="color: blue; text-decoration: none;"><em>Patient who has had keratoconus for over 50 years wearing scleral lenses.</em></span></b></a><em> </em></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 9pt;"><em> 175.<span style="font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: 7pt/normal "Times New Roman";"> </span></em><a href="http://eyefreedom.com/patient_videos_play.php?fn=7kh_vmkoC-k" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline; text-underline: single;" title="Patient with advanced keratoconus and hydrops wearing scleral lenses. (spanish)"><b><span style="color: blue; text-decoration: none;"><em>Patient with advanced keratoconus and hydrops wearing scleral lenses. (spanish)</em></span></b></a><em> </em></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 9pt;"><em> 176.<span style="font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: 7pt/normal "Times New Roman";"> </span></em><a href="http://eyefreedom.com/patient_videos_play.php?fn=uMJ3Sczj0hY" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline; text-underline: single;" title="Patient with advanced keratoconus wearing rose k lenses."><b><span style="color: blue; text-decoration: none;"><em>Patient with advanced keratoconus wearing rose k lenses.</em></span></b></a></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 9pt;"><em> 177.<span style="font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: 7pt/normal "Times New Roman";"> </span></em><a href="http://eyefreedom.com/patient_videos_play.php?fn=yZMsxOcqzwk" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline; text-underline: single;" title="Patient who underwent lasik 15 years prior with extremely poor vision now wearing scleral lenses which are providing her with clear comfortable vision."><b><span style="color: blue; text-decoration: none;"><em>Patient who underwent lasik 15 years prior with extremely poor vision now wearing scleral lenses which are providing her with clear comfortable vision.</em></span></b></a><em> </em></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 9pt;"><em> 178.<span style="font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: 7pt/normal "Times New Roman";"> </span></em><a href="http://eyefreedom.com/patient_videos_play.php?fn=ELZx3LTRaUY" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline; text-underline: single;" title="Patient with advanced keratoconus who underwent cross-linking wearing scleral lenses which are providing him with clear vision after many years."><b><span style="color: blue; text-decoration: none;"><em>Patient with advanced keratoconus who underwent cross-linking wearing scleral lenses which are providing him with clear vision after many years.</em></span></b></a><em> </em></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 9pt;"><em> 179.<span style="font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: 7pt/normal "Times New Roman";"> </span></em><a href="http://eyefreedom.com/patient_videos_play.php?fn=TaBD4RDQ3Mc" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline; text-underline: single;" title="Patient with advanced keratoconus who could not function visually for over 15 years now wearing scleral lenses with clear comfortable vision. "><b><span style="color: blue; text-decoration: none;"><em>Patient with advanced keratoconus who could not function visually for over 15 years now wearing scleral lenses with clear comfortable vision. </em></span></b></a></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 9pt;"><em> 180.<span style="font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: 7pt/normal "Times New Roman";"> </span></em><a href="http://eyefreedom.com/patient_videos_play.php?fn=6JIijx-Rbq8" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline; text-underline: single;" title="Patient with advanced keratoconus wearing scleral lenses. (spanish)"><b><span style="color: blue; text-decoration: none;"><em>Patient with advanced keratoconus wearing scleral lenses. (spanish)</em></span></b></a></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 9pt;"><em> 181.<span style="font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: 7pt/normal "Times New Roman";"> </span></em><a href="http://eyefreedom.com/patient_videos_play.php?fn=r3xK5oxvAKY" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline; text-underline: single;" title="Patient who underwent corneal transplants over 25 years ago now wearing scleral lenses with greatly improved vision after many years."><b><span style="color: blue; text-decoration: none;"><em>Patient who underwent corneal transplants over 25 years ago now wearing scleral lenses with greatly improved vision after many years.</em></span></b></a><em> </em></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 9pt;"><em> 182.<span style="font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: 7pt/normal "Times New Roman";"> </span></em><a href="http://eyefreedom.com/patient_videos_play.php?fn=BTcTwIgfShY" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline; text-underline: single;" title="Post rk patient wearing scleral lenses with clear vision for the first time in many years."><b><span style="color: blue; text-decoration: none;"><em>Post rk patient wearing scleral lenses with clear vision for the first time in many years.</em></span></b></a><em> </em></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 9pt;"><em> 183.<span style="font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: 7pt/normal "Times New Roman";"> </span></em><a href="http://eyefreedom.com/patient_videos_play.php?fn=L6lul8IXyL8" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline; text-underline: single;" title="Post rk patient wearing scleral lenses with clear vision for the first time in many years."><b><span style="color: blue; text-decoration: none;"><em>Post rk patient wearing scleral lenses with clear vision for the first time in many years.</em></span></b></a><em> </em></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 9pt;"><em> 184.<span style="font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: 7pt/normal "Times New Roman";"> </span></em><a href="http://eyefreedom.com/patient_videos_play.php?fn=R_pPOO1sNrk" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline; text-underline: single;" title="Patient with advanced keratoconus and failed cross-linking wearing scleral lenses and can now see well for first time in many years."><b><span style="color: blue; text-decoration: none;"><em>Patient with advanced keratoconus and failed cross-linking wearing scleral lenses and can now see well for first time in many years.</em></span></b></a><em> </em></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 9pt;"><em> 185.<span style="font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: 7pt/normal "Times New Roman";"> </span></em><a href="http://eyefreedom.com/patient_videos_play.php?fn=RiG6-isk3Do" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline; text-underline: single;" title="Patient with advanced keratoconus and hydrops wearing scleral lens to restore vision lost 15 years earlier."><b><span style="color: blue; text-decoration: none;"><em>Patient with advanced keratoconus and hydrops wearing scleral lens to restore vision lost 15 years earlier.</em></span></b></a></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 9pt;"><em> 186.<span style="font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: 7pt/normal "Times New Roman";"> </span></em><a href="http://eyefreedom.com/patient_videos_play.php?fn=uDKqI4mHXpU" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline; text-underline: single;" title="Patient with high myopia and advanced keratoconus wearing scleral lenses and seeing clearly and comfortably once again."><b><span style="color: blue; text-decoration: none;"><em>Patient with high myopia and advanced keratoconus wearing scleral lenses and seeing clearly and comfortably once again.</em></span></b></a></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 9pt;"><em> 187.<span style="font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: 7pt/normal "Times New Roman";"> </span></em><a href="http://eyefreedom.com/patient_videos_play.php?fn=n1XReZuyHZo" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline; text-underline: single;" title="Patient with post-lasik corneal ectasia wearing scleral lenses and seeing clearly and comfortably once again. (spanish)"><b><span style="color: blue; text-decoration: none;"><em>Patient with post-lasik corneal ectasia wearing scleral lenses and seeing clearly and comfortably once again. (spanish)</em></span></b></a></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 9pt;"><em> 188.<span style="font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: 7pt/normal "Times New Roman";"> </span></em><a href="http://eyefreedom.com/patient_videos_play.php?fn=3bH_m9lG5IM" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline; text-underline: single;" title="Patient with corneal transplants in each eye wearing scleral lenses and seeing clearly and comfortably once again. (spanish)"><b><span style="color: blue; text-decoration: none;"><em>Patient with corneal transplants in each eye wearing scleral lenses and seeing clearly and comfortably once again. (spanish)</em></span></b></a></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 9pt;"><em> 189.<span style="font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: 7pt/normal "Times New Roman";"> </span></em><a href="http://eyefreedom.com/patient_videos_play.php?fn=e4c90fMwX8I" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline; text-underline: single;" title="Patient who underwent lasik and radial keratotomy surgery and suffering from dry eye and corneal ectasia seeing clearly and comfortably once again with scleral lenses."><b><span style="color: blue; text-decoration: none;"><em>Patient who underwent lasik and radial keratotomy surgery and suffering from dry eye and corneal ectasia seeing clearly and comfortably once again with scleral lenses.</em></span></b></a></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 9pt;"><em> 190.<span style="font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: 7pt/normal "Times New Roman";"> </span></em><a href="http://eyefreedom.com/patient_videos_play.php?fn=9TKNvg1iEYQ" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline; text-underline: single;" title="Post-lasik patient with corneal ectasia wearing scleral lenses and seeing clearly and comfortably once again."><b><span style="color: blue; text-decoration: none;"><em>Post-lasik patient with corneal ectasia wearing scleral lenses and seeing clearly and comfortably once again.</em></span></b></a></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 9pt;"><em> 191.<span style="font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: 7pt/normal "Times New Roman";"> </span></em><a href="http://eyefreedom.com/patient_videos_play.php?fn=5BQO3jKK92M" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline; text-underline: single;" title="Patient who underwent radial keratotomy and lost quality vision seeing clearly and comfortably once again with scleral lenses."><b><span style="color: blue; text-decoration: none;"><em>Patient who underwent radial keratotomy and lost quality vision seeing clearly and comfortably once again with scleral lenses.</em></span></b></a><em> </em></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 9pt;"><em> 192.<span style="font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: 7pt/normal "Times New Roman";"> </span></em><a href="http://eyefreedom.com/patient_videos_play.php?fn=KiB2W5hqw2g" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline; text-underline: single;" title="Avançado ceratocone paciente usando lentes esclerais e vendo claramente, mais uma vez."><b><span style="color: blue; text-decoration: none;"><em>Avançado ceratocone paciente usando lentes esclerais e vendo claramente, mais uma vez.</em></span></b></a><em> </em></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 9pt;"><em> 193.<span style="font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: 7pt/normal "Times New Roman";"> </span></em><a href="http://eyefreedom.com/patient_videos_play.php?fn=knko4weG9Qg" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline; text-underline: single;" title="Lentes esclerales ayudar a otro post-lasik ectasia paciente ver claramente una vez más."><b><span style="color: blue; text-decoration: none;"><em>Lentes esclerales ayudar a otro post-lasik ectasia paciente ver claramente una vez más.</em></span></b></a><em> </em></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 9pt;"><em> 194.<span style="font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: 7pt/normal "Times New Roman";"> </span></em><a href="http://eyefreedom.com/patient_videos_play.php?fn=AYywf9f5RPE" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline; text-underline: single;" title="Corneal transplant patient now wearing scleral lenses and seeing clearly once again."><b><span style="color: blue; text-decoration: none;"><em>Corneal transplant patient now wearing scleral lenses and seeing clearly once again.</em></span></b></a><em> </em></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 9pt;"><em> 195.<span style="font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: 7pt/normal "Times New Roman";"> </span></em><a href="http://eyefreedom.com/patient_videos_play.php?fn=QUz7-ez7VNg" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline; text-underline: single;" title="Post-lasik ectasia patient wearing scleral lenses and seeing clearly once again.(chinese)"><b><span style="color: blue; text-decoration: none;"><em>Post-lasik ectasia patient wearing scleral lenses and seeing clearly once again.(chinese)</em></span></b></a><em> </em></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 9pt;"><em> 196.<span style="font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: 7pt/normal "Times New Roman";"> </span></em><a href="http://eyefreedom.com/patient_videos_play.php?fn=TS1QXUtJSkc" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline; text-underline: single;" title="Advanced keratoconus patient wearing scleral lenses and seeing clearly once again."><b><span style="color: blue; text-decoration: none;"><em>Advanced keratoconus patient wearing scleral lenses and seeing clearly once again.</em></span></b></a><em> </em></span></div>
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<em><strong><span style="font-size: large;">"CENSORING LASIK DATA...DELETING ANY NEGATIVE REFERENCE </span><span style="font-size: large;">THAT EXPOSES LASIK BEING UNSAFE!"</span></strong></em></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">It appears that Wikipedia.org is allowing the LASIK INDUSTRY to "censor" the following LASIK Wikipedia.org page (s):</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lasik">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lasik</a></span><br />
<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Refractive_surgery"><span style="font-size: large;">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Refractive_surgery</span></a><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">What's really sick though, is they are "re-writing" a new history in place of the actual factual history! Yet any and all LASIK Refractive Surgeons are stated as "Wiki Notable" people for what they are doing and contributing to the world? Really? Ruining someone's eye's ability to produce tear film, lying that the flap they create is temporary and heals when they've always known it doesn't and can come dislodged at any moment, knowing that every eye they do this needless elective procedure on will regress each year, and the fact that they are creating "eye disease" with the laser blasts which will accelerate the need for Cataract Surgery is notable????</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Anyone or thing, that speaks out against LASIK which could hurt profits, gets sued or ignored or even deleted from Wikipedia as shown here below.</span><br />
<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dean_Andrew_Kantis"><span style="font-size: large;">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dean_Andrew_Kantis</span></a><br />
<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morris_Waxler"><span style="font-size: large;">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morris_Waxler</span></a><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Is Wikipedia really "Notable" or is it a "Censored Data" website trying to rewrite history the way those "Contributing Money" to the top Wiki-Master-Programmers wish history to be written? Take a look at this and decide for yourself, who really funds Wikipedia:<br /><a href="http://www.conservapedia.com/Examples_of_Bias_in_Wikipedia">http://www.conservapedia.com/Examples_of_Bias_in_Wikipedia</a></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">It has been told to me "over and over and over," that so many grown men and grown women, working from Mommy and Daddy's basement or spare bedroom, or working from the loft above the garage, are the real "Wiki Masters" that are paid anything to write an article or delete an article. They play God in thinking that they are all so powerful, when they really are not even able to escape the boundries of their parents and can't even afford to go out into the real world, get a real job, make their own stake in the world, and how can I say this nicely...GROW UP!</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">In other words, anyone or anything, that speaks against this very profitable, multi-billion dollar profitable LASIK procedure, finds themselves eventually sued, defamed, or "deleted off of the actual history books" and instead "history is re-written" to the way "the LASIK industry wants it shown," and "not the way it really is!" The LASIK industry has paid off these "Wiki-Master-Article-Writers" to make sure to police the Wikipedia website and censor it so that nothing too negative hurts their income stream! Thus, be very careful with the references that cite Wikipedia... Here's why:</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><strong>First</strong>, several years ago, there was a reference given to how the ex football player, Pat Tillman died in the line of sight, being shot by a fellow military personnel who underwent LASIK and "accidentally" shot his own team member mistaken him for the opposite side, the enemy... </span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pat_Tillman">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pat_Tillman</a></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><br />(Notice absolutely ZERO reference made to any connection to the fellow military personnel who just had refractive surgery, seeing blurry/fuzzy, and thus shooting his own teamate ruling his death as caused by "friendly fire..."). </span><span style="font-size: large;">Please read on:</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Unfortunately, to date, the tv news anchors and media have "yet to report this true story." That was then erased from the above link and is now nowhere to be found.</span><br />
<a href="http://greenfertility.blogspot.com/2006/11/lasik-and-death-of-pat-tillman.html"><span style="font-size: large;">http://greenfertility.blogspot.com/2006/11/lasik-and-death-of-pat-tillman.html</span></a><br />
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<a href="http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2006/11/09/terror/main2165223.shtml"><span style="color: blue; font-size: large;">http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2006/11/09/terror/main2165223.shtml</span></a><span style="font-size: large;">
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<a href="http://www.wellsphere.com/green-living-article/lasik-and-the-death-of-pat-tillman/340871"><span style="color: blue; font-size: large;">http://www.wellsphere.com/green-living-article/lasik-and-the-death-of-pat-tillman/340871</span></a><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><strong>Secondly</strong>, anytime anyone speaks out against LASIK are quickly quieted and ignored. Whether it be the man himself who approved it at the FDA, ex chief of Medical Devices, Dr. Morris Waxler, who is now "Opposed" to LASIK saying that he wants a "Criminal Investigation" into those that "tricked him" into approving it, lied about the safety studies, and continue to "FFF" "Falsify-Fabricate-Fraudulent" cook these studies even in the year 2013!</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><a href="http://www.odwire.org/forum/content/175-The-Evidence-LASIK-Makes-Healthy-Eyes-Sick?utm_source=Copy+of+New+LASIK+Forum+Back+Online&utm_campaign=Life+After+Lasik&utm_medium=email">http://www.odwire.org/forum/content/175-The-Evidence-LASIK-Makes-Healthy-Eyes-Sick?utm_source=Copy+of+New+LASIK+Forum+Back+Online&utm_campaign=Life+After+Lasik&utm_medium=email</a></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"></span><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="http://lifeafterlasik.com/LASIK%20Morris%20FDA%20Petition%20Jan%206%202011.pdf">http://lifeafterlasik.com/LASIK%20Morris%20FDA%20Petition%20Jan%206%202011.pdf</a></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><a href="http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=morris+waxler+lasik&oq=morris+waxler+lasik&gs_l=youtube.3..35i39.201.5700.0.6398.16.16.0.0.0.0.157.1343.10j5.15.0...0.0...1ac.1.11.youtube.dcGwZbFQ6zU">http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=morris+waxler+lasik&oq=morris+waxler+lasik&gs_l=youtube.3..35i39.201.5700.0.6398.16.16.0.0.0.0.157.1343.10j5.15.0...0.0...1ac.1.11.youtube.dcGwZbFQ6zU</a></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><strong>Third</strong>, anytime anyone tried to upload the various website references to give the online public a source of references, these website references have been permanently deleted and thus, the public never sees the "bad side" of what it's like to live with permanent and debilitating post LASIK eye injuries that these websites and books expose:</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><a href="http://lasikadvisory.blogspot.com/2013/03/lasik-patient-websites-warning-you.html">http://lasikadvisory.blogspot.com/2013/03/lasik-patient-websites-warning-you.html</a></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Nor were any of us who spoke out at the April 25th, 2008 Emergency LASIK Ophthalmic Device Panel Discussion in DC allowed to post our true events/stories as Wikipedia.org "BLOCKED" every attempt at this. Here are those public testimonies here:</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Lastly, when anyone makes an attempt to "update this page" with factual data such as this or any of the references, scientific studies, and professional opions that "speak out against this electively permanent eye reshaping surgical procedure," it's immediately deleted and "gone forever." So, anyone must reach the hypothesis that this is now a "censored pro biased LASIK website page." In other words, "if you doubt this to be true...we challenge you to add anything that shows the negative to LASIK...and see for yourself!" </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">The next question is, if <span style="background-color: #fff2cc;"><em><strong>"Wikipedia.org is doing this for the LASIK industry, then what else are they censoring and who is paying them off to censor these pages?"</strong></em></span> And...what is it going to take to get Wikipedia.org to "come clean" and actually give and report "the entire story" and not "censor" all of their information? <em><strong><span style="background-color: #f4cccc;">Maybe, we need to send Wikipedia.org a legal affidavit to sign stating how much ASCRS and other pro LASIK and biased medical groups are contributing to this "paid for news encyclopedia!"</span></strong></em></span><br />
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<strong><em><span style="background-color: white; font-size: large;">Dr. Morris Waxler, for having spoken out against LASIK and who is a notable figure as he approved LASIK and is now against it calling for a Criminal Investigation, is now finding his own Wikipedia article up for "deletion" shown here:</span></em></strong><br />
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<tr><th colspan="2" style="font-size: 125%; font-weight: bold; text-align: center;"><span class="fn">Morris Waxler</span></th></tr>
<tr><th scope="row" style="text-align: left;"><i><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alma_mater" title="Alma mater">Alma mater</a></i></th><td>Howard University, Michigan State University</td></tr>
<tr><th scope="row" style="text-align: left;">Years active</th><td>1974-Present</td></tr>
<tr><th scope="row" style="text-align: left;">Organization</th><td class="org">U.S. Food and Drug Administration<br />
Waxler Regulatory Consultancy LLC</td></tr>
<tr><th scope="row" style="text-align: left;">Known for</th><td><a class="mw-redirect" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lasik" title="Lasik">Lasik</a></td></tr>
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<b>Morris Waxler</b> is the former U.S. Food and Drug Administration official in charge of approving laser vision correction (LASIK) devices between 1996-2000.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-EWO_1-0"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morris_Waxler#cite_note-EWO-1"><span style="font-size: x-small;">[1]</span></a></sup> He is the founder and president of Waxler Regulatory Consultancy, LLC.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-WFDA_2-0"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morris_Waxler#cite_note-WFDA-2"><span style="font-size: x-small;">[2]</span></a></sup><br />
Waxler has worked with more than 60 companies to get products approved by the FDA.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-BJ_3-0"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morris_Waxler#cite_note-BJ-3"><span style="font-size: x-small;">[3]</span></a></sup><br />
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<li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-3"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morris_Waxler#Lasik"><span class="tocnumber">2.1</span> <span class="toctext">Lasik</span></a></li>
<li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-4"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morris_Waxler#Godfrey_.26_Kahn"><span class="tocnumber">2.2</span> <span class="toctext">Godfrey & Kahn</span></a></li>
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Waxler holds a doctorate degree in psychology from the University of Maryland.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-BJ_3-1"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morris_Waxler#cite_note-BJ-3"><span style="font-size: x-small;">[3]</span></a></sup><br />
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Waxler joined Center for Devices and Radiologial Health (CDRH) in 1974 and studied the effects of light and ultraviolet radiation on the eyes of experimental animals. He worked there till 1992 and facilitated communication within CDRH on the biological effects of optical radiation.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-LIN_4-0"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morris_Waxler#cite_note-LIN-4"><span style="font-size: x-small;">[4]</span></a></sup> From 1992 to 1996, he worked as an Interdisciplinary Scientist at the FDA's Diagnostic & Surgical Devices Branch, Division of Ophthalmic Devices.<br />
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Waxler founded Waxler Regulatory Consultancy LLC in 2008.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-WFDA_2-1"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morris_Waxler#cite_note-WFDA-2"><span style="font-size: x-small;">[2]</span></a></sup><br />
He has also worked on projects that included body composition analyzers such as MRI equipment, <a href="http://www.surfcanyon.com/search?q=breast%20implants&f=sls&p=wtiieusr" style="border-bottom-color: currentColor; border-bottom-style: dotted; border-bottom-width: medium; text-decoration: none;" target="scSearchLink">breast implants</a> and treatments for seasonal <a href="http://www.surfcanyon.com/search?q=depression&f=sls&p=wtiieusr" style="border-bottom-color: currentColor; border-bottom-style: dotted; border-bottom-width: medium; text-decoration: none;" target="scSearchLink">depression</a>.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-BJ_3-2"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morris_Waxler#cite_note-BJ-3"><span style="font-size: x-small;">[3]</span></a></sup><br />
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Prior to working for the FDA, Waxler was a research psychologist with the U.S. Navy Medical Research Institute and a consultant for the National Institute of Mental Health.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-BJ_3-3"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morris_Waxler#cite_note-BJ-3"><span style="font-size: x-small;">[3]</span></a></sup><br />
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On 25 February 2010, Morris Waxler, former Food and Drug Administration (FDA) official in charge of approving laser vision correction (LASIK) devices, stated concerns about the risk of serious side-effects from LASIK and the original FDA approval process. His concerns about the safety of LASIK were discussed in an interview on <i><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Good_Morning_America" title="Good Morning America">Good Morning America</a></i>.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-5"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morris_Waxler#cite_note-5"><span style="font-size: x-small;">[5]</span></a></sup> On 6 January 2011, Waxler requested that,<br />
<dl><dd>"the Commissioner of Food and Drugs withdraw FDA approval (PMA) for all LASIK devices and issue a Public Health Advisory with a voluntary recall of LASIK devices in an effort to stop the epidemic of permanent eye injury caused by lasers and microkeratomes used for LASIK eye surgery."</dd></dl>
Waxler alleged that,<br />
<dl><dd><span style="color: red;">"The FDA was deprived of knowledge of the full extent of LASIK injuries prior to and during FDA reviews of documents submitted in support of the safety and effectiveness of LASIK devices under 21 CFR 812 and 21 CFR 814. In addition, LASIK manufacturers and their collaborators withheld safety and effectiveness information from their investigational device exemption (IDE) reports to the FDA. In addition, they hid LASIK injuries from FDA within the context of out-of-court settlement of innumerable lawsuits. Clinic-sponsored IDE studies cherry-picked, withheld, and hid data from FDA that clearly showed LASIK with excessive adverse event rates (greater than 1%). These activities were an industry-wide effort, organized wholly or in part by the manufacturers and their collaborators in order to circumvent FDA law and regulation. I will submit confidential information on these matters separately to FDA’s Office of Criminal Investigation."</span><sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-6"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morris_Waxler#cite_note-6"><span style="font-size: x-small;">[6]</span></a></sup></dd></dl>
In an interview with CNN in 2011, Waxler stated that the failure rate, based on FDA data, is over 50%, 18% or more people suffer from glare, <a href="http://www.surfcanyon.com/search?q=halos&f=slc&p=wtiieusr" style="border-bottom-color: currentColor; border-bottom-style: dotted; border-bottom-width: medium; text-decoration: none;" target="scSearchLink">halos</a>, dry eyes and similar problems and around 0.7%-1% have problem with corneas so thin that they bulge. He stated that problems such as haze, halos and night driving problems are persistent and they remain after a year. He said that,<br />
<dl><dd>"I was wrong to discount the haze, halos and other effects. These have not been studied extensively and when they are studied, they are studied by people who have financial interest in the outcome and no independent studies have been done."<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-YTLP_7-0"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morris_Waxler#cite_note-YTLP-7"><span style="font-size: x-small;">[7]</span></a></sup></dd></dl>
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Godfrey & Kahn, a Milwaukee law firm recruited Waxler as the regulatory affairs director in 2002.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-BJ_3-4"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morris_Waxler#cite_note-BJ-3"><span style="font-size: x-small;">[3]</span></a></sup><br />
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<li id="cite_note-EWO-1"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morris_Waxler#cite_ref-EWO_1-0"><span class="cite-accessibility-label">Jump up </span>^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><span class="citation web"><a class="external text" href="http://www.eyeworld.org/article-ascrs-responds-to-lasik-critic-morris-waxler" rel="nofollow">"ASCRS responds to LASIK critic Morris Waxler"</a>. ASCRS Eye World<span class="reference-accessdate">. Retrieved 12 September 2012</span>.</span><span class="Z3988" title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AMorris+Waxler&rft.btitle=ASCRS+responds+to+LASIK+critic+Morris+Waxler&rft.genre=book&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.eyeworld.org%2Farticle-ascrs-responds-to-lasik-critic-morris-waxler&rft.pub=ASCRS+Eye+World&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook"><span style="display: none;"> </span></span></span></li>
<li id="cite_note-WFDA-2"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morris_Waxler#cite_ref-WFDA_2-0"><span class="cite-accessibility-label">Jump up to: </span><sup><i><b><span style="font-size: x-small;">a</span></b></i></sup></a> <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morris_Waxler#cite_ref-WFDA_2-1"><sup><i><b><span style="font-size: x-small;">b</span></b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text"><span class="citation web"><a class="external text" href="http://www.waxlerfda.com/" rel="nofollow">"Waxler Regulatory Consultancy LLC"</a>. Waxler Regulatory Consultancy LLC<span class="reference-accessdate">. Retrieved 12 September 2013</span>.</span><span class="Z3988" title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AMorris+Waxler&rft.btitle=Waxler+Regulatory+Consultancy+LLC&rft.genre=book&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.waxlerfda.com%2F&rft.pub=Waxler+Regulatory+Consultancy+LLC&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook"><span style="display: none;"> </span></span></span></li>
<li id="cite_note-BJ-3"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morris_Waxler#cite_ref-BJ_3-0"><span class="cite-accessibility-label">Jump up to: </span><sup><i><b><span style="font-size: x-small;">a</span></b></i></sup></a> <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morris_Waxler#cite_ref-BJ_3-1"><sup><i><b><span style="font-size: x-small;">b</span></b></i></sup></a> <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morris_Waxler#cite_ref-BJ_3-2"><sup><i><b><span style="font-size: x-small;">c</span></b></i></sup></a> <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morris_Waxler#cite_ref-BJ_3-3"><sup><i><b><span style="font-size: x-small;">d</span></b></i></sup></a> <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morris_Waxler#cite_ref-BJ_3-4"><sup><i><b><span style="font-size: x-small;">e</span></b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text"><span class="citation web">Millard, Pete. <a class="external text" href="http://www.bizjournals.com/milwaukee/stories/2002/12/02/story6.html" rel="nofollow">"Godfrey & Kahn opens FDA practice"</a>.</span><span class="Z3988" title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AMorris+Waxler&rft.aufirst=Pete&rft.aulast=Millard&rft.au=Millard%2C+Pete&rft.btitle=Godfrey+%26+Kahn+opens+FDA+practice&rft.genre=book&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.bizjournals.com%2Fmilwaukee%2Fstories%2F2002%2F12%2F02%2Fstory6.html&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook"><span style="display: none;"> </span></span></span></li>
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<li id="cite_note-5"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morris_Waxler#cite_ref-5"><span class="cite-accessibility-label">Jump up </span>^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><span class="citation web"><a class="external text" href="http://abcnews.go.com/GMA/OnCall/lasik-eye-surgery-side-effects-fda-regulator/story?id=9933008" rel="nofollow">"LASIK Eye Surgery Side Effects Not Taken Seriously, Says Former FDA Regulator - ABC News"</a>. Abcnews.go.com. 2010-02-25<span class="reference-accessdate">. Retrieved 2011-12-10</span>.</span><span class="Z3988" title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AMorris+Waxler&rft.btitle=LASIK+Eye+Surgery+Side+Effects+Not+Taken+Seriously%2C+Says+Former+FDA+Regulator+-+ABC+News&rft.date=2010-02-25&rft.genre=book&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fabcnews.go.com%2FGMA%2FOnCall%2Flasik-eye-surgery-side-effects-fda-regulator%2Fstory%3Fid%3D9933008&rft.pub=Abcnews.go.com&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook"><span style="display: none;"> </span></span></span></li>
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</span></em></strong><br />LASIK ADVISORYhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06454878522212705080noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5806712963278024253.post-89652335901813601702013-08-31T06:10:00.004-07:002013-08-31T06:10:51.827-07:00Another Pro Athlete Finds His Life Turned UPSIDE DOWN FROM LASIK!<br />
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ATHELETE FINDS HIS LIFE TURNED UPSIDE DOWN FROM LASIK!</span>!</span></strong><span style="color: white; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 36pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: red; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 24pt;">"An
elective and irreversible eye reshaping dry eye inducing procedure that wasn't
even needed in the first place!"</span><span style="color: #0067ce; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 24pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Casper Wells to DL"</span></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="color: red; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 18pt;">-LASIK
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<span style="color: white; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 18pt;"><span style="color: black;">Matt Gelb, Inquirer Staff Writer <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: white; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 18pt;"><span style="color: black;">NEW YORK - History will reflect this
was not the greatest of weeks for a man named Casper Wells. There could be an
explanation, albeit a frightening one.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: white; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 18pt;"><span style="color: black;">Wells was placed on the disabled
list Monday morning with what the Phillies described as "vision
problems" just two days after he was the losing pitcher and struck out
four times in an 18-inning defeat. Interim manager Ryne Sandberg said Wells has
played with blurred eyesight.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: white; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 18pt;"><span style="color: black;">The Phillies sent Wells to an eye
specialist in Philadelphia.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: white; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 18pt;"><span style="color: black;">The 28-year-old outfielder had LASIK
surgery last November but issues lingered. Sandberg said Wells tried contacts
and the prescription goggles. Nothing helped.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: white; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 18pt;"><span style="color: black;">"He's also experienced some dry
eye in the outfield," Sandberg said.</span> </span><em><span style="color: red; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 18pt;">"They dry up when he tries
to blink. He tries to blink to gain focus. He's really battling something. It
finally got to the point where he didn't feel right about that. He mentioned
production and betterment of the team and himself to see if he can get that
fixed.</span></em><span style="color: white; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 18pt;"> <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<em><span style="color: red; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 18pt;">"That is scary. He said
oftentimes it was a blurred ball coming in. He didn't know if he was going to
blink just right to make it clear." Wells is 1 for 23 with eight
strikeouts and two walks since being acquired by the Phillies on Aug. 8. This
is his fifth team of 2013 and the first trip to the disabled list in his
career.</span></em><span style="color: white; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 18pt;"> <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: white; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 18pt;"><span style="color: black;">Infielder Pete Orr was selected from
triple-A Lehigh Valley to replace Wells. Orr, 34, has yet to play in the majors
this season. He was hitting .258/.300/.385 with the IronPigs. He will be the
49th different Phillies player in 2013, which ties last year's number with 32
games to play.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: white; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 18pt;"><span style="color: black;">Read more at:</span> <o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="color: #49b3ff; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 18pt;"><a href="http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?e=001BeG1qilbzem8Tl_1WlM0X6k_pNEZ8CTSPBUjJcdvQei5rLMRfrORJg5ivoxaaPINED2LLBoIqJURktSz5ekWt38tjc1u4M_fu8G3s6GCE3QvJSOSjnxOb7n7ZgK3aWTlzRquLBNPcEsLIl0h65NzN_atKGlLf5M75MFzbZXC3xAPMB3jXqok-96LuiMcKQyqhjlwGniRC-uZt7zs0pXfdZahsVGMfNbLQ5AAFSD_I9p-oELVJ6B4gQ==" shape="rect" target="_blank"><span style="color: #49b3ff;">http://www.philly.com/philly/blogs/phillies_zone/Vision-problems-send-Casper-Wells-to-DL.html#pMxx0bDTAY8OKS7Z.99</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: white; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 18pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;"><span style="color: black;">Question:</span> </span><span style="color: #49b3ff; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 18pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;"> </span><em><span style="color: red; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 18pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">"Will you not heed this warning, risk your job,
your current normal life, your marriage and ability to drive your kids to
school or drive at night, all because a commissioned staffer and desperate
LASIK madman/madwoman needing to make $5,000 off of you in 10 flat minutes,
tells you that you will love it and to trust them with your only healthy
eyes?" You've been warned...</span></em>LASIK ADVISORYhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06454878522212705080noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5806712963278024253.post-56400849713382482512013-08-12T06:58:00.005-07:002013-08-21T05:43:21.419-07:00UK'S ANTI-LASIK PROTESTS: "OPTICAL EXPRESS RUINED MY LIFE!"<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<strong><span style="color: red; font-size: x-large;">"</span><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: red; font-size: x-large;">Optical Express Ruined My Life..."</span></span></strong><br />
<strong><span style="font-size: large;">A Sad LASIK Story About A Group Of Corrupt LASIK Physicians...</span></strong></div>
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Website/Forum:<br />
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Facebook Page:<br />
<a href="https://www.facebook.com/OpticalExpressRuinedMyLife">https://www.facebook.com/OpticalExpressRuinedMyLife</a><br />
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Injured LASIK Patient Videos:<br />
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15 Injured LASIK Patient Stories:<br />
<a href="http://www.opticalexpressruinedmylife.co.uk/index.php/true-optical-express-horror-stories.html">http://www.opticalexpressruinedmylife.co.uk/index.php/true-optical-express-horror-stories.html</a><br />
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<br />LASIK ADVISORYhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06454878522212705080noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5806712963278024253.post-51932276556933141272013-08-09T17:31:00.003-07:002013-08-12T06:42:39.772-07:00TODAY THE LASIK INDUSTRY WILL BE TURNED UPSIDE DOWN...<div style="text-align: center;">
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<strong><u><span style="color: red; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 48pt;">THE LASIK INDUSTRY WILL BE TURNED UPSIDE DOWN!</span></u></strong></div>
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<strong><u><span style="color: red; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 22pt;">THE NEXT
IRS INVESTIGATION WILL BE INTO THE DIRECTORS AND COMMISSIONERS AT THE
FDA, ASCRS</span></u></strong><strong><u><span style="color: white; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 22pt;">, AND THE LIASONS REPRESENTING
THE LASER MANUFACTURERS WHO CONTINUE TO FALSIFY ("COOK")SENSITIVE
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<span style="color: red; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 22pt;"><a href="http://www.bostoneyepain.org/my-personal-thoughts/"><span style="color: #9fc5e8;">http://www.bostoneyepain.org/my-personal-thoughts/</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<strong><i><span style="color: white; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 18pt;">August,
2013 By </span></i></strong><strong><i><span style="color: white; font-size: 18pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></i></strong></div>
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<b><i><span style="color: #ff6600; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 18pt;">Perry
Rosenthal, M.D.</span></i></b><span style="color: #ff6600;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<em><b><span style="color: white; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 18pt;">Assistant Harvard
Professor of Ophthalmology</span></b></em><span style="color: white; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 18pt;"> <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: white; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 36pt;">"<strong><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif";"><u><span style="color: red;">THE SCANDAL OF LASIK!</span></u></span></strong></span><span style="color: white; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 36pt;"><span style="color: red;">"<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: white; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 18pt;">Imagine
a surgical procedure being performed for cosmetic reasons and patient
convenience on a healthy organ critical to our ability to function.
Considering that this surgery neither treats nor prevents disease, what is
the acceptable rate of serious and permanent complications? Shouldn't it be
zero? How can </span><span style="color: white; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 18pt;">we even
consider a rate greater than those of vaccinations that, while also given
to healthy people, provide invaluable disease-prevention benefits?
LASIK/PRK laser surgeries do not. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: white; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 18pt;">How has
it been possible that disastrous permanent complications of these surgeries
have been ignored by the FDA? In this context, I have a confession to make.
Despite my being aware of the many blinding complications of this surgery, <em><u><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif";">having treated many of these patients
at the Boston Foundation for Sight (which I founded), like my colleagues, I
failed to act on my observations that a surgical procedure performed for
non-medical reasons and that has been proven to have disastrous
consequences in some, would be sanctioned </span></u></em></span><strong><i><u><span style="color: red; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 18pt;">by the
FDA. </span></u></i></strong><span style="color: white; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 18pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: white; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 18pt;">I did nothing until I became aware of a complication that had
not been previously reported; </span><strong><u><span style="color: red; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 18pt;">suicide-provoking pain that
is long-lasting and probably life-long.</span></u></strong><span style="color: white; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 18pt;"> Why had
this devastating complication not been reported in the past? I assumed that
eye doctors had been misled because these eyes typically look normal and
well healed. Moreover, we have been trained to believe that the cause of
chronic eye pain can always be identified during traditional examinations
and that if nothing is found to explain it, the pain must exist only in the
minds of these patients. <strong><u><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif";">Moreover,
as I discovered, the onset of this type of pain often occurs years after
the surgery and their connection is easily dismissed. I thought that these
factors probably accounted for its having being overlooked. I was wrong.</span></u></strong><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: white; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 18pt;"><em><span style="color: #ea9999;">I did detailed examinations on 21 such
patients and wrote a paper detailing the characteristics of this pain
disease (corneal neuropathic centralized pain) in this group in which I
explained why it differs from typical temporary post operative pain. I
offered my theory about its mechanisms and included suggestions on how it
might be possibly prevented or reduced.</span></em> <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: white; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 18pt;">As I began to read the history of LASIK and its complications
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<span style="color: white; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 18pt;">I became aware of the central role of the FDA in sanctioning these
procedures. However, a cursory look at the results of search
engines provided a day's read. Where is the shame?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<strong><span style="color: white; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 18pt;">So I sent my paper to the </span></strong><strong><span style="color: red; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 18pt;">FDA </span></strong><strong><span style="color: white; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 18pt;">as
documentation of this previously unreported complication despite </span></strong></div>
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<strong><span style="color: white; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 18pt;">being
warned that they will not respond. I didn't believe it.<i> </i></span><i><o:p></o:p></i></strong></div>
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<b><i><u><span style="color: red; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 18pt;">I was wrong</span></u></i></b><b><i><u><span style="color: white; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 18pt;">. I sent it twice without
the courtesy of an acknowledgement. Of course they could always say that
the paper has no standing because it was rejected.<o:p></o:p></span></u></i></b></div>
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<em><span style="color: #ea9999; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-large;">I would never have imagined that editors of scientific
peer-</span></em><span style="font-size: x-large;"><em><span style="color: #ea9999; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">reviewed journals, a for profit manufacturing/marketing industry and,
in some cases, even practicing doctors would collaborate to hide these
complications from the public and prospective patients. And what about the
government agency whose primary </span></em><em><span style="color: #ea9999; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">responsibility is to protect the public
(FDA/CDRH)?</span></em></span> <o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="color: white; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 18pt;"><a href="http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?e=001HIHeRUPgqvVpW7nksHpMv_87x2f4bKHqxxNpZDrhjMuUhMa-RK567CyFK9JeY7BD4JHg7Eih8uOuQS4_nAraH5Y57L_DcymMJXLKhgLQi8M4Hnr8FW6T8bk5b_ixJ_V8c_OwTkzise2h0FUpde_8Z1DLexlYAOqjk-XyFIFyU98CObKWaUN_6Ye2tV2D2beBpjGPu9xy66LrtstwK17tKevIeGbfTGfF7WpDw9veZXFzd0nNkdmpm11euKl61dN1aLwhul2irhuowPbuJJeIQvoKszNU66ey641TewmTCZytiH3byETWbtphGa78_5-PjIqnhtdlVmHlbeNCpUlm2CB8DhWc52Xh4d1w184Qe69gHrS3IRfOmMLps5S0oHRK8DpZYzPxe2EdXaDtrofzc49mMtg1GAg-RWXpB2GDNAIe89qw4ej9BQvXyB2y0wZ-QyeHg1M7AxSJHA3LeGTCqw==" shape="rect" target="_blank"><span style="color: red;"><span style="color: #6fa8dc;">http://bmctoday.net/crstodayeurope/2013/02/article.asp?f=ndyag-treatment-of-epithelial-ingrowth</span></span></a>
and more than 28 million have been done world-wide. And it was
predicted that at the current rate of 800,000 procedures per year, the
available pool of surgical candidates is growing by 2 million eyes per
year: <a href="http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?e=001HIHeRUPgqvV0Lzq5FQXF-bU1JDd2QXJwvNwGFPWjkyKy6qBAALEFXyi8ohAHxUBisn0pJvUfLUG4MkmrD0bmSu_GSJu9hJN9xhDnwKmGfstMiPv0gx0UfxCZG_VLn3i5OBBtxrAYvVSmRjAq1OBqNZtkKvON9Np_Jez0_nVYXpdWBIQ-SKZ5-tYY1XwzpxTMJIQYAqj9_L03VXZw1N0aI7ltr4fZ9SoJMc2aVYsZO7BhvfAtL-fB5DoaOVOPNa5-GtaNL-2ItNu2txMwHEmLnzhNCU7HhlqUnkdp7aM1VKhUwO-bzWDxOD7WMUGt5S4eLoT4E_3yVCLgt0LKKDLK1kcOU-TYTOURZKea_uWv4WSAeErwsJCLD_mGRzPDoBMVRrx4UWjDcOX4JIjiRR6fbh2tlgLW0V1crzBuB-tkQc7KuFLh9bdfVo0IBIyVhZ2336KSBlJOBQ3FmFWX8mMIZOARoAcr6g8DZf7JK6CBigI=" shape="rect" target="_blank"><span style="color: red;"><span style="color: #9fc5e8;">http://bmctoday.net/crstoday/2011/08/article.asp?f=the-lasik-market-yesterdays-technology-or-poised-for-recovery</span></span></a> <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<strong><u><span style="color: red; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 18pt;">This is a huge industry with tentacles that
reach the FDA.</span></u></strong><span style="color: white; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 18pt;"> In the meantime, think about what will be
happening </span></div>
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<span style="color: white; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 18pt;">to many of the people who will be undergoing these </span></div>
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<span style="color: white; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 18pt;">procedures
ignorant of their possible life-destroying complications. </span><span style="color: white; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 18pt;">This paper was summarily rejected by a </span></div>
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<span style="color: white; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 18pt;">leading peer-reviewed
journal in ophthalmology. I shrugged my shoulders and submitted it to one
that specializes in corneal laser procedures, fully expecting it to be
accepted. </span></div>
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<span style="color: white; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 18pt;">It too was rejected outright. The reviewers'
criticisms were impossible to address.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: white; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 18pt;"><a href="http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?e=001HIHeRUPgqvXuOAq8ExZrYqQUArQ0U73QEcROZ6takL29FJJT4Aj32BMTsFkUloLAWlYlh6AOJz9ceBV2egCkkXzH6SAk96IiGcRWpZPor3fTfc4gcO2GDQ5GQfJLYgRKpqZTJsermFDzQcOkClpPYL_OYAP2JmcRFXmuYgzmFQg9loagUE7ODMnpF1KLjTxCoVBkvBC-33lghMC5bHm00hpetkRFeH5WwPwY0_q7aXwzI4YXD5XKBHpT9hqgkDtZFTbJUcxRE9K2wMfZPmbM8-l8yyGmK2ag3Ij4vXfIBsc4Ych37xEw8J7A8jjScwHfzRWID6Nt0x8I_9OzcnK7BH7NY1xfU8c_obYz9dsM6rU8pf4gp_uJ41neyO2AMucSkzp_6ypwThEiLH3PD7f_sBa56F152Rpr" shape="rect" target="_blank"><span style="color: #49b3ff;"><span style="color: #9fc5e8;">http://www.aao.org/publications/eyenet/200906/feature.cfm</span></span></a><span style="color: #9fc5e8;">
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<em><span style="color: white; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 18pt;"><span style="color: #ea9999;">"Because of the infrequency of this complication, it
would </span></span></em></div>
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<em><span style="color: white; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 18pt;"><span style="color: #ea9999;">take more than 15 years at an incredible cost to perform the studies
they insisted would be needed by other journals. </span></span></em></div>
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<em><span style="color: white; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 18pt;"><span style="color: #ea9999;">(They stated that they had
no interest in looking at it again.) In other words their suggestions were
totally unrealistic. </span></span></em></div>
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<span style="color: #ea9999;"><em><span style="color: white; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 18pt;">I was confused. So I sent the paper to
world-class pain researchers for their opinions. All supported its being
published. (One called my work "transformative".) Notably, both
journals ignored my suggestion that at least one of the reviewers be an
expert in pain. </span></em><strong><i><u><span style="color: white; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 18pt;">I began to wonder if they had a
hidden agenda.</span></u></i></strong><em><span style="color: white; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 18pt;"> Was I becoming paranoid? I have
been accused as having an over-abundance of naivety. </span></em></span></div>
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<span style="color: white;"><strong><i><u><span style="color: white; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 18pt;">But </span></u></i></strong><strong><i><u><span style="color: white; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 18pt;">I
can no longer be silent..."</span></u></i></strong></span><span style="color: white; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 18pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<strong><span style="color: red; font-size: x-large;">Are ASCRS's Very Own Steven Schallhorn Abusing The Navy/DoD To Possibly "Cook" The LASIK Quality of Life Safety Studies?</span></strong></div>
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<strong><span style="color: red; font-size: x-large;">What Is Steven Schallhorn's Financial Interests & </span></strong><strong><span style="color: red; font-size: x-large;">Involvement On The Board of Optical Express LASIK Mill?</span></strong></div>
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<strong><span style="color: red; font-size: x-large;">What Are Steven Schallhorn's Financial Interests/Ownership in the Non-FDA Approved Femtosecond LASIK Laser...</span></strong></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";"><span style="font-size: small;"><strong><u>First, lets listen to Schallhorn's paid testimony at the Emergency Opthalmic LASIK Device Panel in DC on April 25th, 2008:</u></strong></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";"><span style="font-size: small;"><strong><u>Steven Schallhorn's Ties
to Navy Ophthalmologist and DoD (Department of Defense):</u></strong>
(they are handling the LASIK quality of life study shown here, again, before
the study has even begun, they are boasting a 95.4% patient satisfaction rate
and that it will prove LASIK to be safe and effective)<br />
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</span><a href="http://www.fda.gov/NewsEvents/Newsroom/PressAnnouncements/ucm186858.htm"><span style="color: blue; font-size: small;">http://www.fda.gov/NewsEvents/Newsroom/PressAnnouncements/ucm186858.htm</span></a></span></div>
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The Department of Defense and Navy are covering all of this up. They
control the fabricated studies, and then report back to the FDA that LASIK is
safe. They try to back it up using “navy and army guys in the field of
battle and in “live or die” “intense situations,” which of course they will do
better than having to wear contacts or glasses! But you can’t compare
that to daily, un battle like situations behind a desk, on the computer,
driving a car, as eye pain post surgery is “UNACCECPTABLE” etc…
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: black;">Below is a timeline, showing a huge “medical cover-up” with a $</span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">45 Million dollar
DOD contract on Intralase: “the laser that never had any clinical
studies, yet Dr. Steven Schallhorn, who has financial interests in AMO parent
company, owns an interest in the company that received a lot of these profits,
one month after he resigned from the DOD…” This is corrupt! Now the
Navy is urging “happy patients” to go online and issue “happy” comments here:</span>
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<a href="http://www.regulations.gov/"><span style="color: blue; font-size: small;">www.regulations.gov</span></a></div>
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<span style="background: yellow; color: black; font-family: "Cambria","serif"; mso-highlight: yellow;"><span style="font-size: small;">For clarification, very few people ever
submit a comments to the LASIK docket on </span><a href="http://www.regulations.gov/"><span style="color: blue; font-size: small;">www.regulations.gov</span></a><span style="font-size: small;"> . It's not
like MedWatch reports on the FDA’s website. When you have 15
submissions on the LASIK docket from one source, that sticks out like a sore thumb.
And that source just happens to be the Navy, who is supposed to conduct an
investigation of LASIK for the FDA?....</span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Cambria","serif";"><span style="font-size: small;"> Here is what Sargeant Scott Barnes said at the FDA Panel I spoke
at: </span><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AVFh0vNX60M"><span style="color: blue; font-size: small;">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AVFh0vNX60M</span></a><span style="font-size: small;">
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<strong><span style="font-size: small;"><u><span style="color: black; font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";">Look at this, here it is all spelled out, for you to see the
blueprint unfold:</span></u><span style="color: black; font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";"><o:p></o:p></span></span></strong></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 18pt;"> </span><span style="color: black; font-size: small;">On
March 10, 2008 an online publication of the America Society of Cataract and
Refractive Surgery (ASCRS) reported: </span><br />
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<i><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: black;">“In a ground breaking interaction, the U.S. Food
and Drug Administration (FDA), approached the American Society of Cataract and
Refractive Surgery (ASCRS)<strong> in the fall of 2006</strong> for guidance in designing
a study to that would identify extremely dissatisfied post-LASIK patients,
define their significant symptoms, and the impact of those symptoms on quality
of life.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></i></div>
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<a href="http://www.eyeworld.org/ewweek.php?id=507"><span style="color: blue; font-size: small;">http://www.eyeworld.org/ewweek.php?id=507</span></a></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: small;">On March 17, 2008, the America Academy of Ophthalmology (AAO) issued a press
release announcing, “Organized Ophthalmology and Government Agencies Discuss
Study Design for Dissatisfied LASIK Patient Clinical Trial”.</span><br />
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<a href="http://www.aao.org/newsroom/release/20080317.cfm"><span style="color: blue; font-size: small;">http://www.aao.org/newsroom/release/20080317.cfm</span></a></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: small;">On April 7, 2008, ASCRS issued a similar press release:</span><br />
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<a href="http://www.ascrs.org/press_releases/ASCRS-TO-PARTICIPATE-IN-AND-CO-FUND-STUDY-ON-POST-LASIK-QUALITY-OF-LIFE-WITH-US-FOOD-AND-DRUG-ADMINISTRATION.cfm"><span style="color: blue; font-size: small;">http://www.ascrs.org/press_releases/ASCRS-TO-PARTICIPATE-IN-AND-CO-FUND-STUDY-ON-POST-LASIK-QUALITY-OF-LIFE-WITH-US-FOOD-AND-DRUG-ADMINISTRATION.cfm</span></a></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: black;">On April 24, 2008, Bloomberg.com quoted Daniel Schultz, then-director of
FDA’s Center for Devices and Radiological Health (CDRH), as saying that the
LASIK study involving organized ophthalmology would begin <strong>no later than 2009</strong>:
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<i><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: black;">“The Food and Drug
Administration, working with doctors' groups and the National Eye Institute,
plans to study how Lasik affects patients' quality of life <strong>no later than
next year</strong>, Daniel Schultz, head of the agency's medical devices center,
said today. Identifying why complications occur will help those considering
Lasik make more educated choices, he said.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></i></div>
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<a href="http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601124&refer=home&sid=aX6SKlifKQvU"><span style="color: blue; font-size: small;">http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601124&refer=home&sid=aX6SKlifKQvU</span></a></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: small;">On April 25, 2008, the FDA held a public meeting of the Ophthalmic Devices
advisory panel to discuss post-marketing experience with LASIK. LASIK patients,
family members of LASIK patients, physicians, psychologists, and optometrists
spoke about the high incidence of LASIK complications and the emotional toll
that a bad outcome from LASIK takes on patients. Several LASIK-related
suicides and suicide attempts were reported at the meeting. Organized
ophthalmology representatives and active-duty and retired Navy and Army
physicians gave testimony asserting that LASIK is safe and effective, and denied
any connection between a bad outcome from LASIK and depression.</span><br />
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<strong><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="background: yellow; mso-highlight: yellow;">At
the public hearing, Dr. Jennifer Morse, ASCRS consultant and former Navy
Program Director for Psychiatry in San Diego, talked about the benefits of
LASIK in military and civilian populations, and asserted that there is no
scientific evidence of any direct link between LASIK and depression or suicide.
Several months later at an AAO annual meeting, Dr. Morse spoke about
dissatisfied LASIK patients, saying there must be some neurologic disconnect
between what their eyes are seeing and what their brain is processing.</span></span></span></strong></div>
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</span><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_TEejJ7J22I"><span style="color: blue; font-size: small;">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_TEejJ7J22I</span></a></span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<strong><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="background: yellow; mso-highlight: yellow;">ASCRS paid Dr.
Morse’s travel expenses to attend the hearing.</span> <o:p></o:p></span></span></strong><br />
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<span style="color: black; font-size: small;">LASIK surgeon, Dr. Steve Schallhorn who retired from the
Navy in early 2007, also spoke at the April, 2008 FDA hearing. Dr. Schallhorn
is a paid medical malpractice defense expert witness, has made public
statements and published literature denying connection between a poor LASIK
outcome and diminished quality of life, and is currently medical director of
one of the largest corporate providers of LASIK in the world. Said Schallhorn: </span></div>
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<i><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="background-color: yellow;">“While in the Navy, I founded
the Department of Defense Refractive Surgery Program and directed the Navy
program since its inception in 1993… For disclosures, I currently [sic] as a
consultant to AMO, a company that markets an excimer laser… LASIK is safe and
effective… Patient satisfaction after LASIK is excellent, higher than that
reported for other forms of elective surgery.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></i></div>
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<a href="http://www.fda.gov/ohrms/dockets/ac/08/transcripts/2008-4353t1-02.pdf"><span style="color: blue; font-size: small;">http://www.fda.gov/ohrms/dockets/ac/08/transcripts/2008-4353t1-02.pdf</span></a></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: small;">On April 8, 2008, just prior to the FDA hearing, Dr.
Schallhorn was quoted in OSN Supersite online saying:</span></div>
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<i><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="background-color: yellow;">"I think it's important
that there's an appreciation that what we're talking about here is not the
safety and effectiveness of LASIK. That has never been an issue.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></i></div>
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<a href="http://www.osnsupersite.com/view.aspx?rid=27476"><span style="color: blue; font-size: small;">http://www.osnsupersite.com/view.aspx?rid=27476</span></a></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: small;">Dr. Schallhorn was quoted in a December, 2009 article in the
Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) asserting that the FDA LASIK
study will find that LASIK is safe and effective and improves patients’ quality
of life. </span></div>
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<i><span style="background-color: yellow; color: black; font-size: small;">Steven C. Schallhorn, MD,
chairman of the Optical Express International Medical Advisory Board, said he
is confident that once the quality-of-life issues are studied, LASIK will be
shown to be even more safe and effective. Schallhorn, who is currently a
consultant to 2 LASIK companies, bases his opinion on his prior work as a
captain in the Navy… "But in the context of the military and looking at
issues of quality of life and the impact LASIK has, it is not only a
life-changing event, but a performance-enhancing procedure," Schallhorn
said. "The FDA study will come tothe same conclusion," he predicted.</span></i></div>
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<o:p><span style="color: black; font-size: small;"> <span style="color: red;"><strong>Wow...imagine that!</strong></span></span></o:p></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: small;">Source: Mitka M. FDA focuses on
quality-of-life issues for patients following LASIK surgery. JAMA. 2009 Dec
9;302(22):2420, 2422.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: black;">Interestingly, in December 2006,
approximately one month before Dr. Schallhorn’s retirement from the Navy, <strong>IntraLase</strong>
announced that the Department of Defense had awarded the company a $45 million,
5-year contract to supply its FS femtosecond (LASIK flap maker) lasers to the
U.S. Army, Navy, Air Force, Marine Corps and federal civilian agencies. </span></span><o:p><span style="color: black; font-size: small;"> </span></o:p></div>
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<a href="http://www.osnsupersite.com/view.aspx?rid=20499"><span style="color: blue; font-size: small;">http://www.osnsupersite.com/view.aspx?rid=20499</span></a></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="background: yellow; mso-highlight: yellow;">Dr. Schallhorn has ties to AMO, the parent company of
IntraLase (see Exhibit 1).</span> </span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: small;">A third Navy physician, David J. Tanzer, M.D., Program Director
of the Navy Refractive Surgery Program in San Diego, was an invited guest
speaker at the April, 2008 FDA hearing. Dr. Tanzer asserted that LASIK is
safer than contact lenses. Dr. Tanzer emphasized the success and operational
benefits of LASIK in the military, and reported that satisfaction is high. Dr.
Tanzer is co-author of a February 2009 peer-reviewed study with Dr. Morse and
Dr. Schallhorn which states that patients who are depressed before LASIK are
more likely to be dissatisfied with their vision after LASIK. Dr. Tanzer has
published several papers with Dr. Schallhorn, all favorable to LASIK. TLC Laser
Eye Centers, a large corporate provider of LASIK, lists Dr. Tanzer among its
LASIK surgeons on the company’s website. </span><o:p><span style="color: black; font-size: small;"> </span></o:p></div>
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<a href="http://www.tlcvision.com/centers/lajolla/doctors.fxml#item3"><span style="color: blue; font-size: small;">http://www.tlcvision.com/centers/lajolla/doctors.fxml#item3</span></a></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: small;">Also appearing at the April, 2008 FDA hearing was Lt. Col.
Scott Barnes, MD, an Army eye surgeon, who made an impassioned plea on behalf
of soldiers at Fort Bragg in North Carolina:</span><o:p><span style="color: black; font-size: small;"> </span></o:p></div>
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<i><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: small;"> "Please don't take
[LASIK] away from us." <span style="color: black;"> </span></span></span></i><span style="color: black; font-family: "Cambria","serif";"><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AVFh0vNX60M"><span style="color: blue; font-size: small;">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AVFh0vNX60M</span></a><span style="font-size: small;">
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<span style="color: black; font-size: small;">However, Lt. Col. Scott Barnes, MD coauthored an article in
the July, 2008 issue of Current Opinion in Ophthalmology, which apparently
contradicts his FDA testimony: </span><o:p><span style="color: black; font-size: small;"> </span></o:p></div>
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<i><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: black;">"At Fort Bragg, North
Carolina, the Army surgeons have moved [from LASIK] to 100% surface
ablation in the past 2 years; the five known traumatic flap dislocations (out
of 2500 procedures) due to 'typical' soldier activities contributed to this
change but not as much as an analysis of the visual outcomes."</span></span></i></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: small;">Obviously, Lt. Col. Scott Barnes was already aware of the
potential for traumatic flap dislocation and poorer visual outcomes with LASIK
eye surgery when he testified. </span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: small;">In April, 2009, ASCRS held its annual convention in San Francisco. At the
convention, LASIK surgeons performed skits making fun of suicidal LASIK
patients. One skit poked fun at patients who complain of halos and glare
after refractive surgery. Another skit featured Dr. Parag Majmudar as
"Dr. I. M. Suicidal" singing of "pushing the boundaries of
ethics". The skits were published on YouTube by Dr. Majmudar.</span><br />
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<span style="color: black; font-size: small;">In May 2009, Scott Tolchin, a LASIK patient advocate, sent a
letter to members of the U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Energy and
Commerce and Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations and others members of
Congress seeking an immediate moratorium on the use of excimer lasers for LASIK
surgery based on an approximate 20 percent incidence of complications,
including dry eyes and night vision problems, reported by patients in FDA LASIK
clinical trials. The letter states, in part: </span></div>
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<i><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: black;">The FDA announced that further
study of LASIK dissatisfaction was needed and reported that it had formed an
unprecedented partnership with LASIK professional groups to conduct a
prospective LASIK study to begin in 2009. The proposed study amounts to <strong>putting
the fox in charge of the hen house</strong>. Surgeons selected to lead the study
include those with <strong>direct ties to LASIK device manufactures - a clear
conflict of interest</strong>.<o:p></o:p></span></span></i></div>
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</span></div>
<span style="color: black; font-size: small;">On October 15, 2009, the FDA announced that it had launched a collaborative study
with the National Eye Institute (NEI) and the Department of Defense to examine
the potential impact on quality of life from LASIK.</span><br />
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<i><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="background-color: yellow;">“Phase 2 will evaluate the quality of life and
satisfaction following LASIK as reported by patients in a select, active duty
population treated at the <strong>Navy Refractive Surgery Center at Naval Medical
Center San Diego</strong>.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></i></div>
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<a href="http://www.fda.gov/ForConsumers/ConsumerUpdates/ucm187351.htm"><span style="color: blue; font-size: small;">http://www.fda.gov/ForConsumers/ConsumerUpdates/ucm187351.htm</span></a></div>
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</span></div>
<span style="color: black; font-size: small;">The FDA did not, however, explain the sudden departure of ‘organized
ophthalmology’ from the proposed LASIK study. </span><br />
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<span style="color: black; font-size: small;">In November 2009, the FDA reopened a public docket to
continue to receive public comments to assist the agency in identifying ways in
which it can improve its public outreach efforts regarding the safety and
effectiveness of LASIK devices. Recently, many of the positive comments
about LASIK have been submitted by military LASIK patients at the direction of
Navy LASIK surgeons in an obvious attempt to slant the FDA's LASIK
investigation findings. </span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: small;">In light of the financial conflicts of interest and bias
exhibited by current and former Department of Defense physicians, and tainting
of the public docket, the FDA should remove the Navy from phase 2 of the
proposed LASIK study. </span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: small;">To date, the FDA has not explained the 3-plus year delay (from the time it
approached ASCRS) in investigating LASIK dissatisfaction. Although new
safety concerns have been raised, LASIK continues to be performed unabated in
direct conflict with FDA’s mission to protect the American public from unsafe
medical devices. Considering the elective nature of LASIK and the fact
that LASIK carries significant risk to patients’ vital sense of sight, this is
unacceptable. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="background: yellow; mso-highlight: yellow;">In December 2006, approximately one month before Dr.
Schallhorn’s retirement from the Navy, <strong>IntraLase</strong> announced that the
Department of Defense had awarded the company a $45 million, 5-year contract to
supply its FS femtosecond (LASIK flap maker) lasers to the U.S. Army, Navy, Air
Force, Marine Corps and federal civilian agencies.</span> </span></span></div>
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<a href="http://www.osnsupersite.com/view.aspx?rid=20499"><span style="color: blue; font-size: small;">http://www.osnsupersite.com/view.aspx?rid=20499</span></a></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: small;">In January 2007, Forbes.com
announced that IntraLase was acquired by Advanced Medical Optics (AMO). </span></div>
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<a href="http://www.forbes.com/2007/01/08/advanced-medical-optics-markets-equity-cx_jl_0108markets09.html"><span style="color: blue; font-size: small;">http://www.forbes.com/2007/01/08/advanced-medical-optics-markets-equity-cx_jl_0108markets09.html</span></a></div>
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Schallhorn was a consultant for Advanced Medical Optics (AMO), parent company
of IntraLase.</span> </span></span></div>
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<a href="http://www.eyeworld.org/article-reducing-hoas-to-improve-quality-of-vision"><span style="color: blue; font-size: small;">http://www.eyeworld.org/article-reducing-hoas-to-improve-quality-of-vision</span></a></div>
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<a href="http://www.eyeworld.org/article-femto-laser-for-intrastromal-ablation"><span style="color: blue; font-size: small;">http://www.eyeworld.org/article-femto-laser-for-intrastromal-ablation</span></a></div>
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by AMO at the time the defense contract was awarded.</span> </span></span></div>
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opinions say he controlled a lot of the LASIK studies and possibly falsified or
doctored them up while in the Navy and made a fortune from the Intralase
Femtosecond laser which really never went through any FDA Approvals, somehow
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CustomVue PRK on Nov. 20th 2008. I am currently just under 5 months post op,
20/15 in both eyes but still experienceing some starbursting. It has slowly
gotten better over the past month. I was wondering what other peoples
experience has been and how long it took for their starbursting to deminish.</span></i><i><span lang="EN" style="color: #3e3e3e; font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt; mso-ansi-language: EN;"><o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span lang="EN" style="color: #3e3e3e; font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt; mso-ansi-language: EN;">To quote
a Navy doc during my recent eye exam:<br />
"Statistics show that pilots and applicants experience very few PRK
complications compared to the rest of the population."<br />
<span style="background: yellow; mso-highlight: yellow;">Don't be the abnormal
applicant that has starbursts.</span><o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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used.”<br />
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“The bottom line is that unless the starbursts are ridiculously bad, they will
not be detected in an eye exam -- it is almost completely subjective. It is
also almost completely disqualifying.”<br />
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“As a little side note, the former head of Navy Refractive Surgery, (</span><span lang="EN" style="background: yellow; color: red; font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-highlight: yellow;">Steven Schallhorn</span></i><i><span lang="EN" style="color: #3e3e3e; font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt; mso-ansi-language: EN;">) who developed the Refractive Surgery program for the
Navy and Air Force was an F-14 pilot before going to med school (TOPGUN
Instructor, highest score ever recorded in a scored ACM exercise at the annual
F-14 fighter derby, real underachiever). </span><u><span lang="EN" style="background: yellow; color: red; font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-highlight: yellow;">He claims that he had
horrible starbursts and actually thought it was normal before he became an
ophthalmologist</span></u><u><span lang="EN" style="color: red; font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt; mso-ansi-language: EN;">.”</span></u></i><i><span lang="EN" style="color: #3e3e3e; font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt; mso-ansi-language: EN;"><br />
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“One of the most significant indicators or starbursts and glare is pupil size
vs. treatment zone size. Do you know the size of your fully dilated pupil and
the size of the area of your cornea that was treated (it should be on your
surgical records)? The other common indicators are bad surgeons and bad luck.”</span></i><i><span style="color: black; font-size: 14pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<em><span style="color: #1f497d;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Thirty-one months after it
back-burnered a former CDRH branch chief’s petition seeking withdrawal of the
LASIK indication for ophthalmic lasers based on unacceptably high permanent
injury rates, <u><span style="color: red;">CDRH has been sent a new retrospective study indicating that 21%
of patients with serious corneal pain had received laser surgery on their eyes.
The 6/14 study, from Harvard Medical School assistant clinical professor and
Boston EyePain Foundation founder Perry Rosenthal, found 21 out of 100
consecutive patients diagnosed with centralized corneal pain had previously
undergone laser keratorefractive surgery.</span></u></span></span><span style="color: #1f497d;"><o:p><span style="font-family: Calibri;"> </span></o:p></span></em></div>
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<em><span style="color: #1f497d;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">In his moribund petition, former
CDRH branch chief for diagnostic and surgical devices Morris Waxler complained
about a LASIK industry-promoted injury rate of less than 1% on which his review
team had based its approval of the devices, compared with his subsequent
assessment of an injury rate in excess of 20%. Waxler alleged that
“Manufacturers and their collaborators withheld more than 10% of the adverse
event data from 13 of the 25 studies, more than 20% from 12 studies, and more
than 40% from seven studies.”</span></span><span style="color: #1f497d;"><o:p><span style="font-family: Calibri;"> </span></o:p></span></em></div>
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</em><em><span style="color: #1f497d;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">He said manufacturers pressured
FDA to not include halos, glare, night vision problems, and dry eyes as adverse
events in order for their lasers to meet FDA’s requirement of a less-than-1%
adverse event rate. After approval, FDA decided these “symptoms” should be
reportable events.</span></span><span style="color: #1f497d;"><o:p><span style="font-family: Calibri;"> </span></o:p></span></em><br />
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<em><span style="color: #1f497d;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">The new study by Rosenthal,
which was rejected by two ophthalmic professional journals* heavily supported
by the LASIK industry, carries the adverse event rate far beyond the six-month
post-operative followup point in most of Waxler’s data, extending out as far as
15 years post-op. Rosenthal found eight patients who had experienced symptoms
immediately after surgery, three whose symptoms were delayed between three and
28 days, two who experience symptoms between one and six weeks post-op, and
eight whose symptoms began between one and 15 years post-op.</span></span><span style="color: #1f497d;"><o:p><span style="font-family: Calibri;"> </span></o:p></span></em></div>
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<em><span style="color: #1f497d;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Rosenthal’s study describes the
symptoms observed as chronic centralized neuropathic corneal pain. It says the
recognition that this “can be a complication of laser keratorefractive surgery
is the first step to developing mechanism-based treatments for this overlooked,
crippling and currently intractable neurological complication.”</span></span><span style="color: #1f497d;"><o:p><span style="font-family: Calibri;"> </span></o:p></span></em></div>
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<em><u><span style="color: red;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Rosenthal acknowledges in the
study that the 21 subjects described differed from those who experienced
“typical” post-LASIK dry eye-like pain in that they reported “higher intensity
descriptors such as burning, aching, pressure, stabbing and in many of these
patients, the presence of otherwise unexplainable </span><span style="font-family: Calibri;">photosensitivity
(photoallodnia).”</span></span></u><span style="color: #1f497d;"><o:p><span style="font-family: Calibri;"> </span></o:p></span></em></div>
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<em><span style="color: #1f497d;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">He dismisses what he calls
“anecdotal observations” that suggest centralized corneal neuropathic pain is
rare. “This begs the question of why some people are susceptible to this
complication,” he writes. “Vulnerability to neuropathic pain is believed to be
influenced by certain genetic and epigenetic factors and efforts to develop
useful predictive tests continue, including measurements of an individual’s
endogenous sensitivity to pain.”</span></span><span style="color: #1f497d;"><o:p><span style="font-family: Calibri;"> </span></o:p></span></em></div>
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<span style="color: #1f497d;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><em>Rosenthal recommends screening
of LASIK candidates for family history of autoimmune diseases which are known
to be associated with a higher incidence of peripheral neuropathies. <u><span style="color: red;">“Reports
that delayed treatment of post-operative pain has a deleterious effect on pain
outcomes suggest that [post LASIK] pain should be treated aggressively and
perhaps even preemptively,” Rosenthal says in his study report. “In this
context, early interventions that accelerate corneal epithelial and nerve
healing and suppress inflammation may also be helpful in avoiding the
transition to centralized corneal neuropathic pain. Because of thedevastating
nature of this complication the search for effective topical analgesics capable
of being used safely prior to and for an extended period of time after surgery
is, in my opinion, a high priority.”</span></u></em></span></span><span style="color: #1f497d;"><o:p><span style="font-family: Calibri;"> </span></o:p></span></div>
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American Academy of Ophthalmology and The Journal of Cataract and Refractive
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Source:<br />
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Additionally published by Jim Dickinson/FDAWeb.com<br />
<a href="http://www.lasiknewswire.com/2013/07/study-finds-21-of-serious-eye-injuries-due-to-lasik.html">http://www.lasiknewswire.com/2013/07/study-finds-21-of-serious-eye-injuries-due-to-lasik.html</a><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><b>Purpose</b></span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">To characterize the clinical features and identify possible factors predictive of long-term, severely disabling corneal pain often associated with photophobia following laser keratorefractive surgery.</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Retrospective, observational case series.</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Data from the medical records of 100 consecutive patients diagnosed with centralized corneal pain were screened retrospectively. Those of 21 patients who had previously undergone laser keratorefractive surgery were identified and reviewed.<i></i></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Characterization of long-term corneal neuropathic pain following laser keratorefractive surgery and assessment of possible risk factors.</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><b>Conclusions</b></span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">The duration of putative centralized corneal neuropathic pain exceeded 2 years at the time of our initial consultation in all patients. This cohort consisted of 15 women and 6 men. 62% of patients reported a pain-free interval between the resolution of surgical pain and onset of chronic corneal pain which ranged from 3 days to 15 years. Excluding the 15 year outlier, the median delay in the onset of chronic pain following LKS was 1.5 years. 14 of 17 patients who had worn soft contact lenses prior to surgery had developed intolerance to these devices. Of the 4 patients without a prior history of soft contact lens wear, 2 reported notable chronic pre-operative dry eye-like symptoms prior to surgery. 3 of the 15 female patients in this cohort were subsequently diagnosed with Sjogren’s syndrome. </span></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Calibri; font-size: small;">Extensive corneal axotomies associated with laser keratorefractive procedures can trigger a chronic trigeminal pain syndrome consistent with centralized neuropathic corneal pain and distinct from that characterized by post operative dry eye-like symptoms which typically resolve within a year. The recognition that centralized neuropathic corneal pain can be a complication of laser keratorefractive surgery is the first step to developing mechanism-based treatments for this overlooked, crippling and currently intractable neurological complication.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">The authors have no proprietary or commercial interests in any material discussed in this article.</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><b>Introduction</b></span></span></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: Calibri; font-size: small;">Corneal axotomy can result in neuropathic pain mechanistically and clinically akin to that observed in other somatic areas following healing of surgical procedures. The human cornea may be especially vulnerable to this disease considering its unrivaled density of nociceptors </span><a href="file:///C:/Users/Willieshoes/AppData/Local/Microsoft/Windows/Temporary%20Internet%20Files/Content.IE5/1214SAVV/LASIK-web.doc#_ENREF_1" title="Mueller, 1997 #736"><sup><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: #ee3124;">1</span></span></sup></a><span style="color: black; font-family: Calibri; font-size: small;">, their significantly lower activation thresholds </span><a href="file:///C:/Users/Willieshoes/AppData/Local/Microsoft/Windows/Temporary%20Internet%20Files/Content.IE5/1214SAVV/LASIK-web.doc#_ENREF_2" title="Bessou, 1969 #2168"><sup><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: #ee3124;">2</span></span></sup></a><span style="color: black; font-family: Calibri; font-size: small;"> and unusual vulnerability to being exposed to the noxious environment. That complications of axotomized corneal nerves can include severe, chronic (and perhaps permanent) neuropathic pain in susceptible patients is not surprising </span><a href="file:///C:/Users/Willieshoes/AppData/Local/Microsoft/Windows/Temporary%20Internet%20Files/Content.IE5/1214SAVV/LASIK-web.doc#_ENREF_3" title="Kehlet, 2006 #2170"><sup><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: #ee3124;">3</span></span></sup></a><span style="color: black; font-family: Calibri; font-size: small;">.</span><br />
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Calibri; font-size: small;">The insight that dry eye-like symptoms is a form of corneal pain </span><a href="file:///C:/Users/Willieshoes/AppData/Local/Microsoft/Windows/Temporary%20Internet%20Files/Content.IE5/1214SAVV/LASIK-web.doc#_ENREF_4" title="Belmonte, 2007 #805"><sup><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: #ee3124;">4</span></span></sup></a><span style="color: black; font-family: Calibri; font-size: small;"> points to the corneal nociceptive system as an important player in the spectrum of disorders collectively labeled as dry eye disease. It has been suggested that chronic dry eye-like symptoms (DELS) following laser keratorefractive surgery (LKS) are the result of reduced tear secretion cause by impaired function of the afferent limb of the functional lacrimal unit </span><a href="file:///C:/Users/Willieshoes/AppData/Local/Microsoft/Windows/Temporary%20Internet%20Files/Content.IE5/1214SAVV/LASIK-web.doc#_ENREF_5" title="Turu, 2012 #1929"><sup><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: #ee3124;">5</span></span></sup></a><span style="color: black; font-family: Calibri; font-size: small;">.<b> </b>Nevertheless, this model often fails to explain many of its clinical features </span><a href="file:///C:/Users/Willieshoes/AppData/Local/Microsoft/Windows/Temporary%20Internet%20Files/Content.IE5/1214SAVV/LASIK-web.doc#_ENREF_6" title="Patel, 2007 #17"><sup><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: #ee3124;">6</span></span></sup></a><span style="color: black; font-family: Calibri; font-size: small;">; especially the disparity between the high intensity of symptoms and paucity of external signs </span><a href="file:///C:/Users/Willieshoes/AppData/Local/Microsoft/Windows/Temporary%20Internet%20Files/Content.IE5/1214SAVV/LASIK-web.doc#_ENREF_7" title="Schein, 1997 #853"><sup><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: #ee3124;">7</span></span></sup></a><span style="color: black; font-family: Calibri; font-size: small;"> which was a uniform finding in this cohort. On the other hand, a recently proposed neuropathic model for otherwise unexplained chronic corneal pain ± photosensitivity </span><a href="file:///C:/Users/Willieshoes/AppData/Local/Microsoft/Windows/Temporary%20Internet%20Files/Content.IE5/1214SAVV/LASIK-web.doc#_ENREF_8" title="Rosenthal, 2012 #1741"><sup><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: #ee3124;">8</span></span></sup></a><span style="color: black; font-family: Calibri; font-size: small;"> is supported by these enigmatic findings and highlights a rare, previously unreported and devastatingly painful complication of massive axotomies caused by laser keratorefractive surgery.</span><br />
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<b><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Patients and Methods</span></span></span></b><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: Calibri; font-size: small;">The charts of 100 consecutive patients who experienced inadequately explained, disabling chronic corneal pain that was either incompletely suppressed while their corneas were immersed in a pool of artificial tears (created by a fluid-ventilated scleral lens) and/or who were inexplicitly intolerant of these devices were reviewed retrospectively. 21 patients in this group were identified as having undergone prior LASIK or photorefractive keratectomy (PRK). As in the larger cohort, all patients in the post-LKS group were presumed to suffer from cornea-projected (phantom) pain as defined by the presence of signs and symptoms consistent with neuropathic changes in the central pain-signaling pathways. Pain-focused medical histories and eye examinations, including laser in vivo confocal microscopy (LVCM) and central Cochet-Bonnet esthesiometry, had been routinely recorded in the charts of all patients.</span><br />
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<b><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Results (Tables 1-3)</span></span></span></b><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: black;">35 eyes of 18 patients had undergone LASIK, 4 eyes of 2 patients had been treated with photorefractive keratectomy (PRK) and one patient had undergone LASIK and PRK in fellow eyes. The median age at their initial consultation was 44 years and ranged from 25 to 60 years. The duration of the chronic ocular pain ± neuropathic photosensitivity at the time of the initial visit varied from 2 to 15 years (See tables 1 and 2 for summary of histories and findings). Corneal neuropathic pain (CNP) had transitioned seamlessly from acute post operative pain in 8 <span style="color: black;">patients (38%) whereas in 13 (62%) the onset of chronic corneal pain was preceded by a post-surgical asymptomatic interval that ranged from 3 days to 15 years (see table 3). The patient with the longest latency was subsequently diagnosed with Sjogren’s syndrome. Of the 13 patients who experienced delayed onset chronic corneal pain, symptoms consistent with centralized pain had commenced spontaneously in 10. In the remaining 3 patients, 1 related its onset to an acute exposure to toxic levels of chlorine fumes, a second to the development of presumed bilateral adenovirus keratitis in a background of Sjogren’s syndrome and the third was subsequently diagnosed as having Sjogren’s syndrome. The duration of the disease at the initial consultation exceeded 2 years in all patients.</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Calibri; font-size: small;">20 of 21 subjects in this cohort were intolerant of scleral lens wear and some reported an unusually painful response to Schirmer’s tests. 4 of 17 patients who had developed soft contact lens intolerance prior to surgery reported dry eye-like symptoms (DELS) while not wearing the devices. Photoallodynia (neuropathic photosensitivity unsupported by external signs</span><a href="file:///C:/Users/Willieshoes/AppData/Local/Microsoft/Windows/Temporary%20Internet%20Files/Content.IE5/1214SAVV/LASIK-web.doc#_ENREF_8" title="Rosenthal, 2012 #1741"><sup><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: #ee3124;">8</span></span></sup></a><span style="color: black; font-family: Calibri; font-size: small;">) was noted by 17 (81%) patients.</span><br />
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Calibri; font-size: small;">95% of patients described symptoms consistent with corneal hypersensitivity to tear evaporation (corneal evaporative hyperalgesia </span><a href="file:///C:/Users/Willieshoes/AppData/Local/Microsoft/Windows/Temporary%20Internet%20Files/Content.IE5/1214SAVV/LASIK-web.doc#_ENREF_8" title="Rosenthal, 2012 #1741"><sup><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: #ee3124;">8</span></span></sup></a><span style="color: black; font-family: Calibri; font-size: small;">), 38% reported hypersensitivity to fumes and chemicals (chemical hyperalgesia) and 62% experienced extraterritorial comorbid pain in their head (headaches), face, ears, teeth and/or temporomandibular areas. The average level of pain was reported as no less than 6 on the visual analogue scale (0 represents no pain and 10 describes worse possible pain). </span><br />
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Calibri; font-size: small;">Despite the intensity and unrelenting nature of symptoms, corneal staining was absent in 27 of the 41 eyes (66%). Of the 14 with corneal staining, 11 were graded as 1+ (Oxford scale), and 2 exhibited 2+ and 3+ staining respectively (Table 3). The intensity of the pain strikingly exceeded that predicted by the status of their corneal epithelium in all patients. Central corneal Cochet-Bonnet corneal metrics were reduced in 53%. </span><br />
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<strong><span style="font-family: Thread-0000172c-Id-0000000a;">Table 2</span></strong></div>
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<strong><span style="font-family: Thread-0000172c-Id-0000000a;">Table 3</span></strong></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Thread-0000172c-Id-0000000a;">Discussion</span></b><br />
<b></b>The high density of corneal nociceptor terminals and their vulnerability to exposure would be expected to increase the vulnerability of the corneal pain system to developing aberrant anatomical and functional neuroplastic changes in its peripheral<sup><a href="http://www.bostoneyepain.org/chronic-pain-following-laser-keratorefractive-surgery-2/#_ENREF_10" title="Reichling, 2009 #1405"><span style="color: #ee3124; font-size: xx-small;">10</span></a></sup> and central <sup><a href="http://www.bostoneyepain.org/chronic-pain-following-laser-keratorefractive-surgery-2/#_ENREF_11" title="Costigan, 2009 #1836"><span style="color: #ee3124; font-size: xx-small;">11</span></a></sup> circuitry that underlie neuropathic pain. The massive axotomies performed during LKS trigger inflammation and the consequent release of nociceptor-sensitizing proinflammatory cytokines that cause corneal hyperalgesia <a href="http://www.bostoneyepain.org/chronic-pain-following-laser-keratorefractive-surgery-2/#_ENREF_9" title="Sommer, 2004 #1256"><sup><span style="color: #ee3124; font-size: x-small;">9</span></sup></a>. The resulting hypersensitivity and hyper-responsiveness to noxious stimuli may include corneal evaporative hyperalgesia (hypersensitivity to tear evaporation.) Moreover, nerve injuries trigger a phenotypic switch in their somata from conduction to regenerative states that initiate the expression of hypersensitive and hyper-responsive ectopic pain generators <a href="http://www.bostoneyepain.org/chronic-pain-following-laser-keratorefractive-surgery-2/#_ENREF_10" title="Xiao, 2002 #1237"><sup><span style="color: #ee3124; font-size: x-small;">10</span></sup></a> which are transported to and embedded in the neural membranes of regenerating axon terminals (sprouts and microneuromas) <a href="http://www.bostoneyepain.org/chronic-pain-following-laser-keratorefractive-surgery-2/#_ENREF_11" title="Belmonte, 2004 #302"><sup><span style="color: #ee3124; font-size: x-small;">11</span></sup></a>. Notably, it is the regenerating nerve terminals that are most responsible for post surgical pain following injuries. Observations of the persistence of active nerve fiber regeneration and inflammation long after these corneas have appeared to have healed likely are plausibly cause by continued nociceptor sensitization and evaporative hyperalgesia despite the presence of reduced corneal tactile sensitivity <a href="http://www.bostoneyepain.org/chronic-pain-following-laser-keratorefractive-surgery-2/#_ENREF_12" title="Benitez del Castillo, 2007 #684"><sup><span style="color: #ee3124; font-size: x-small;">12</span></sup></a>. Post operative symptoms of dry eye-like corneal pain typically resolve within a year <a href="http://www.bostoneyepain.org/chronic-pain-following-laser-keratorefractive-surgery-2/#_ENREF_13" title="Murakami, 2012 #1959"><sup><span style="color: #ee3124; font-size: x-small;">13</span></sup></a>.<br />
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On the other hand, patients described in this study differ from those who experience “typical” post LSK dry eye-like pain in a number of ways, including higher intensity, descriptors such as burning, aching, pressure, stabbing and in many of these patients, the presence of otherwise unexplainable photosensitivity (photoallodynia). Moreover, this type of trigeminal neuropathic pain can involve receptive fields beyond that of the ophthalmic branch of the trigeminal nerves.<br />
Anecdotal observations suggest that centralized corneal neuropathic pain following LKS is rare. This begs the question of why some people are susceptible to this complication. Vulnerability to neuropathic pain is believed to be influenced by certain genetic and epigenetic factors <a href="http://www.bostoneyepain.org/chronic-pain-following-laser-keratorefractive-surgery-2/#_ENREF_14" title="Costigan, 2010 #2173"><sup><span style="color: #ee3124; font-size: x-small;">14</span></sup></a> and efforts to develop useful predictive tests continue <a href="http://www.bostoneyepain.org/chronic-pain-following-laser-keratorefractive-surgery-2/#_ENREF_15" title="Martinez, 2012 #1873"><sup><span style="color: #ee3124; font-size: x-small;">15</span></sup></a>, including measurements of a individual’s endogenous sensitivity to pain <a href="http://www.bostoneyepain.org/chronic-pain-following-laser-keratorefractive-surgery-2/#_ENREF_16" title="Tousignant-Laflamme, 2008 #2174"><sup><span style="color: #ee3124; font-size: x-small;">16</span></sup></a>. The transition from physiological (reversible) central sensitization to pathological (neuropathic) centralized pain is believed to be caused in part by a failing central inhibitory system in which descending inhibitory signals that are normally increased in response to increased barrages of ascending pain activity causing disinhibition. Entrenched disinhibition is believed to be due to changes of maladaptive neuroplasticity in the central nociceptive pathways<a href="http://www.bostoneyepain.org/chronic-pain-following-laser-keratorefractive-surgery-2/#_ENREF_17" title="Cao, 2011 #1906"><sup><span style="color: #ee3124; font-size: x-small;">17</span></sup></a>. It is tempting to speculate that figures 4a, b, and c (of different patients) represent 3 stages of evolution to centralized corneal neuropathic pain beginning with ectopic/inflammatory corneal pain and evolving to increasingly intense symptoms as central sensitization becomes hard-wired and self-sustaining, even as the peripheral corneal neural network may have recovered its normal morphology. Nevertheless, its mechanisms are complex, poorly understood and likely differ among patients.<br />
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<b><span style="font-family: Thread-0000172c-Id-0000000a;">Figure 4a:</span></b> Confocal image of a 47 y.o female who underwent PRK 3 years previously reveals numerous activated dendritic cells and excessive branching of nerve fibers.<br />
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<b><span style="font-family: Thread-0000172c-Id-0000000a;">Figure 4b:</span></b> Confocal image of a 52 y.o male who underwent LASIK OU 7 years previously shows increased branching of nerves in the subbasal plexus and a striking increase in activated dendritic cells in close proximity with the nerve fibers.<br />
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<b><span style="font-family: Thread-0000172c-Id-0000000a;">Figure 4c: </span></b>Confocal image of a 44 y.o female who underwent LASIK OU 11 years previously. She suffers from intense symptoms of CCNP despite the absence of signs of axonopathy, nerve regeneration or inflammation, thus indicating the autonomy of CCNP. Responsiveness to corneal anesthesia can sometimes be helpful in distinguishing between chronic peripheral and hard-wired centralized pain. Although incomplete or absent pain suppression support its central origin, total anesthetic suppression does not exclude this diagnosis since centralized corneal pain can be extinguished in some patients but only to lose this effect only to reoccur (personal observations). Increased mechanosensitivity of the bulbar conjunctiva (putatively, secondary hyperalgesia that precludes wearing scleral lenses), tactile allodynia of the skin and spontaneous pain that persists even in the presence of normal corneal nerve morphology (Fig.4c) indicate involvement of the central pain signaling circuitry independently of corneal pain signals <a href="http://www.bostoneyepain.org/chronic-pain-following-laser-keratorefractive-surgery-2/#_ENREF_18" title="Navarro, 2007 #911"><sup><span style="color: #ee3124; font-size: x-small;">18-20</span></sup></a>. This has been reported following surgery involving other somatic areas <a href="http://www.bostoneyepain.org/chronic-pain-following-laser-keratorefractive-surgery-2/#_ENREF_21" title="Borsook, 2012 #1954"><sup><span style="color: #ee3124; font-size: x-small;">21</span></sup></a>.<br />
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The pain-free intervals between the resolution of post surgical pain and onset of neuropathic pain experienced by most patients in this cohort is a surprising finding and suggests that LKS may act as a priming event that further increases patients’ vulnerability to subsequent development of centralized corneal neuropathic pain that can occur spontaneously or can be triggered by a subsequent noxious event. The considerable inter-patient variability in its clinical expressions (personal observations) fits the model of an open complex system in which the dysregulation of any of its numerous subsystems can affect the behavior of the system as a whole in unexpected ways <a href="http://www.bostoneyepain.org/chronic-pain-following-laser-keratorefractive-surgery-2/#_ENREF_22" title="Apkarian, 2011 #1749"><sup><span style="color: #ee3124; font-size: x-small;">22</span></sup></a>. As a result, centralized neuropathic pain is likely to have a distinctive fingerprint in each patient in terms of its clinical expression and responsiveness to treatments.<br />
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What can be done to reduce the incidence and severity of post LKS CCNP? Since autoimmune diseases are known to be associated with a higher incidence of peripheral neuropathies, we believe that the possible presence of these disorders or its history in immediate family members should be considered as red flags. Reports that delayed treatment of post operative pain has a deleterious effect on pain outcomes <a href="http://www.bostoneyepain.org/chronic-pain-following-laser-keratorefractive-surgery-2/#_ENREF_23" title="Lynch, 2008 #15"><sup><span style="color: #ee3124; font-size: x-small;">23</span></sup></a> suggest that post LKS pain should be treated aggressively and perhaps even preemptively. In this context, early interventions that accelerate corneal epithelial and nerve healing and suppress inflammation may also be helpful in avoiding the transition to centralized corneal neuropathic pain. Because of the devastating nature of this complication the search for effective topical analgesics capable of being used safely prior to and for an extended period of time after surgery is, in my opinion, a high priority.<br />
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How should established CCNP be treated? Since its primary pathophysiology is putatively associated with entrenched hyperexcitability of the central pathways, we believe that downregulating the hyperexcitability of the central pain signaling circuitry adequately and long enough to reverse the maladaptive neuroplasticity responsible for perpetuating the disease should be considered the ultimate therapeutic objective<a href="http://www.bostoneyepain.org/chronic-pain-following-laser-keratorefractive-surgery-2/#_ENREF_24" title="Seminowicz, 2011 #2274"><sup><span style="color: #ee3124; font-size: x-small;">24</span></sup></a>. Systemic neuropathic pain analgesics can sometimes be modestly helpful for patients capable of tolerating their side effects at therapeutic levels <a href="http://www.bostoneyepain.org/chronic-pain-following-laser-keratorefractive-surgery-2/#_ENREF_25" title="Clarke, 2012 #1905"><sup><span style="color: #ee3124; font-size: x-small;">25</span></sup></a>. On the other hand, we argue that opiates should be avoided because, in addition to their questionable long-term effectiveness, they may eventually increase the intensity of pain because of changes they can induce in the brain <a href="http://www.bostoneyepain.org/chronic-pain-following-laser-keratorefractive-surgery-2/#_ENREF_26" title="Younger, 2011 #1919"><sup><span style="color: #ee3124; font-size: x-small;">26</span></sup></a>. Nevertheless, it seems logical for the treatment strategy to include minimizing afferent corneal nociceptive activity to the extent possible. Topically administered nerve growth factor such as found in autologous serum <a href="http://www.bostoneyepain.org/chronic-pain-following-laser-keratorefractive-surgery-2/#_ENREF_27" title="Bradley, 2009 #2273"><sup><span style="color: #ee3124; font-size: x-small;">27</span></sup></a> is a possible candidate <a href="http://www.bostoneyepain.org/chronic-pain-following-laser-keratorefractive-surgery-2/#_ENREF_28" title="Lambiase, 2012 #2271"><sup><span style="color: #ee3124; font-size: x-small;">28</span></sup></a> for some. Other drugs that that appear to accelerate corneal nerve regeneration <a href="http://www.bostoneyepain.org/chronic-pain-following-laser-keratorefractive-surgery-2/#_ENREF_29" title="Zagon, 2010 #2171"><sup><span style="color: #ee3124; font-size: x-small;">29</span></sup></a> may also be of interest.<br />
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We believe that this is the first description of a complication of keratorefractive surgery consistent with the syndrome of centralized corneal neuropathic pain. Awareness of this currently treatment-refractory, severely disabling disease that promotes ideations of suicide in many of its victims (personal observations) is the first step to developing effective, mechanism-based treatments. This effort will require the collaboration of clinicians, cornea-focused researchers and neuroscientists.<b><span style="font-family: Thread-0000172c-Id-0000000a;"> </span></b><br />
We wish to acknowledge David Borsook MD, PhD whose mentorship made this paper possible.<br />
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* This paper was rejected by the Journal of the American Academy of Ophthalmology and<br />
The Journal of Cataract and Refractive Surgery.</div>
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<b><span style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: x-large;">-Notable LASIK Quotes-</span></b><o:p><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"> </span></o:p></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">"The producer of one national news program that did a
special on Lasik told me that he's never seen anything like the way the Lasik
industry has "circled the wagons" around incompetent docs, unethical
Lasik mills, and deceptive advertising. Since they won't do the job of policing
their own, it is left for people who have had bad experiences to do it for
them." -- <span style="color: red;">Joe Tye, author, speaker and CEO.</span></span><o:p><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"> </span></o:p></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="color: red;">Dr. Amanda Zeller, OD:</span> "I am an optometrist, and I have
seen many many patients who had bad LASIK outcomes. I cannot recommend this
procedure to any patient after what I've seen in my exam chair. The rigid
contact lenses required to correct corneas butchered by LASIK are complicated
to fit, very expensive, and much less comfortable than most people's glasses or
soft contact lenses. As a glasses-wearing myope myself, I would NEVER risk
ruining my eyes with LASIK." See comments under article</span><o:p><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"> </span></o:p></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="color: red;">Mark Packer, MD:</span> "If a patient is willing to take a
chance, my experience has been sometimes you win and sometimes you lose."
EyeWorld, March 2011.</span><o:p><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"> </span></o:p></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="color: red;">Dr. George Waring III:</span> "I would not be willing to take
even a 1 in 500,000 risk on my eyes," Dr. Waring said. Source: Demand High
for RK Eye Surgery – Critics Say Glasses, Contacts Work Best, Doctors Just
Trying to Enrich Themselves by Jeffrey Weiss. Seattle Times, p.A4 7/12/93</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">"Ease of lifting the corneal flap 6 years after LASIK
suggests that the interface remains a potential space, providing an easy
conduit to the environment. We present the first reported case of Shewanella
putrefaciens keratitis after LASIK and emphasize that flap-related
complications can occur many years after the procedure. " <span style="color: red;">(Park et al,
2007)</span></span></div>
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<o:p><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"> </span></o:p><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">"Recently, the visual optical system has taken on a new
clinical significance in refractive surgery, since current refractive
procedures can and do induce large amounts of higher-order ocular aberration
that often affects the patient’s daily visual function and quality of
life." <span style="color: red;">(Yang et al, 2010)</span></span><o:p><span style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"> </span></o:p></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">"Furthermore, if [LASIK] interface transparency is
indicative of absent wound healing, one might expect that the interface remains
a potential space and flap adhesion is impaired for the lifetime of the
flap." Ursea R, Feng MT. Traumatic Flap Striae 6 Years After LASIK: Case
Report and Literature Review. J Refract Surg. 2009 Dec 28:1-7. doi:
10.3928/1081597X-20091209-02.</span><o:p><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"> </span></o:p></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="color: red;">Dr. Shaili Jain:</span> “We seldom get to hear what patients want
or value because in the real world disappointed patients rarely tell doctors to
their face that they think of them.” Source: Docs seek to stifle patients’
rants on Web sites. By JoNel Aleccia. MSNBC.com. 1/13/2010. Accessed 1/13/2010
at </span><a href="http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/34794632" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/34794632</span></a><o:p><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"> </span></o:p></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">More than 90 percent of our knowledge is obtained through
our eyes, making vision the most valued of the senses. Source: <span style="color: red;">Boston
Foundation for Sight website</span>.</span><o:p><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"> </span></o:p></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="color: red;">Indiana Attorney General Greg Zoeller</span> on the indictment of
cataract and LASIK surgeon, Dr. Philip Gabriele, "Rarely do we encounter
such a disturbing example of a trusted medical professional allegedly putting
personal greed ahead of patients' health and safety." Source</span><o:p><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"> </span></o:p></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="color: red;">Dr. Gary Conrad:</span> "It was once believed that the flap
would re-adhere permanently. However, the unique connective tissue of the
cornea and a lack of blood vessels limit its ability to fully heal even years
after the procedure... A trauma to the face, such as impact from an automobile
air bag provides enough force to dislodge the flap, reopening the cornea,
infecting it with dirt and debris, and causing instant loss of visual
acuity." Source</span><o:p><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"> </span></o:p></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">"Would I ever get LASIK?... Being an ophthalmologist
with blurry vision would handicap me. Finally, I do have dry eyes, which could
get worse. I'll stick to my glasses and contacts for now." <span style="color: red;">Rachel K.
Sobel: 3/30/2009 Source</span></span><o:p><span style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"> </span></o:p></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="color: red;">Dr. Edward Boshnick:</span> "From what I have seen and
witnessed in my many patients, I feel at the present time LASIK presents a
significant public health crisis." FDA hearing, April 2008.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">"At 6 months postoperatively, the LASIK eyes
experienced a 48% reduction in corneal biomechanics..." <span style="color: red;">Jorge Cazal, MD.</span>
OSN SuperSite 2/19/2008</span><o:p><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"> </span></o:p></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">"These results show that although refractive results
after LASIK are relatively good in the short term, they tend to decline over
time". Waldir Neira Zalentein, MD; Timo M.T. Tervo, MD and Juha M.
Holopainen, MD. Seven-year Follow-up of LASIK for Myopia. <span style="color: red;">J Refract Surg.
2009;25:312-318.</span></span><o:p><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"> </span></o:p></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="color: red;">Dr. John Kanellopoulos:</span> “There was evidence presented by
Emory University’s Henry Edelhauser at this year’s Refractive Surgery
Subspecialty Day at the Academy of Ophthalmology meeting <u><em><strong>that the LASIK flap
never actually heals onto the underlying stroma, especially centrally... This
was a real eye-opener for me</strong></em></u>..." Review of Ophthalmology 2/1/2009</span><o:p><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"> </span></o:p></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="color: red;">Stephen S. Lane, MD:</span> "Make sure the first patient you
enroll feels like you have been doing this for years..." </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f4cccc; color: black; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><u><strong>EyeWorld October, 2005</strong></u></span><o:p><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"> </span></o:p></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="color: red;">Marguerite B. McDonald, MD:</span> "I'm not the only person
who thinks maybe we should hang up our microkeratomes."</span></div>
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<span style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">OSN SuperSite Top Story 11/11/2006</span><o:p><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"> </span></o:p></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="color: red;">Dr. Joseph Dello Russo:</span> "Since almost 100% of LASIK
patients have some degree of decreased contrast sensitivity post-operatively
there is no reason to test for it preoperatively."</span></div>
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<a href="http://www.lasikfaq.com/display.php?q=2002_12_02s10c32c16" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">http://www.lasikfaq.com/display.php?q=2002_12_02s10c32c16</span></a><o:p><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"> </span></o:p></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="color: red;">JULIE RALLS, M.D.</span> Newport Beach, Calif.: "Treating
myopia with corneal surgery is like treating obesity with liposuction. Corneal
surgery is an elective procedure that carries the risk of serious and permanent
complications. High tech may be glamorous, but it is not always the best
medicine." </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Source: </span><a href="http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,992418,00.html" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,992418,00.html</span></a><o:p><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"> </span></o:p></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="color: red;">Lee T. Nordan, MD:</span> "It has taken us more than half of
this decade to learn the risk factors associated with a LASIK flap. Now, I
believe that we should all be aware of them."</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f4cccc; color: black; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><strong><u>Cataract & Refractive Surgery Today, May 2006</u></strong></span><o:p><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"> </span></o:p></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="color: red;">Karimian et al:</span> "Unfortunately, because of long term
complications of LASIK, such as keratectasia, this procedure is used more
cautiously."</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f4cccc; color: black; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><u><strong>J Refract Surg. 2007 Mar;23(3):312-5.</strong></u></span><o:p><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"> </span></o:p></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="color: red;">Lee Nordan:</span> "Common aims of refractive surgery include
"providing the patient with adequate distance and near functional vision
while both of his eyes are open".</span></div>
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<a href="http://www.crstoday.com/PDF%20Articles/0904/crst0904_nordan.pdf" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">http://www.crstoday.com/PDF%20Articles/0904/crst0904_nordan.pdf</span></a></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="color: red;">Dr. Stephen Slade:</span> "LASIK, the more LASIK you do, the
more trouble you run into."</span></div>
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<a href="http://www.fda.gov/ohrms/dockets/ac/03/transcripts/3991t1.doc" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">http://www.fda.gov/ohrms/dockets/ac/03/transcripts/3991t1.doc</span></a><o:p><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"> </span></o:p></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="color: red;">Raymond Applegate OD, PhD:</span> "We used to not pay much
attention to higher order aberrations because we couldn’t fix them."</span></div>
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<a href="http://www.escrs.org/eurotimes/June2003/supplement/Supplement.htm" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">http://www.escrs.org/eurotimes/June2003/supplement/Supplement.htm</span></a><o:p><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"> </span></o:p></div>
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<span style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Dr. I Howard Fine, Past President of the American Society of
Cataract and Refractive Surgery: </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">"As we all know, Lasik transects the cornea nerves,
therefore inducing dry eyes in most patients."</span></div>
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<a href="http://www.fda.gov/ohrms/dockets/ac/01/transcripts/3806t1.doc" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">http://www.fda.gov/ohrms/dockets/ac/01/transcripts/3806t1.doc</span></a><o:p><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"> </span></o:p></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="color: red;">Dr. Arthur B. Epstein:</span> “... many of us in the contact lens
community have spent untold hours trying to help patients who have had their
lives literally destroyed by LASIK.” Source: Review of Optometry, November 2006</span><o:p><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"> </span></o:p></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="color: red;">Dr. Jack Holladay:</span> "By 1 year postoperative, he said,
the patient’s brain adapts to the new way visual information is being delivered
to it, and patients who were at first unhappy become more contented." It
is vital to perform bilateral implantation of multifocal lenses in order to
allow the neural adaptation to take place, Dr. Holladay said. Always implant
multifocals in both eyes,” he said. “By 6 to 9 months, the neural adaptation
will kick in, and the amount of unhappy patients will dwindle down to less than
1% or 2%.”</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f4cccc; color: black; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><u><strong>OCULAR SURGERY NEWS 9/15/2005</strong></u></span><o:p><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"> </span></o:p></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="color: red;">Lee T. Nordan, MD:</span> "Happy usually means that the
patient’s visual function is poorer than desired, but he isn’t complaining …
today." </span></div>
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<a href="http://www.crstoday.com/PDF%20Articles/0505/crst0505_nordan.html" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">http://www.crstoday.com/PDF%20Articles/0505/crst0505_nordan.html</span></a><o:p><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"> </span></o:p></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="color: red;">Schallhorn et al:</span> "At the very least, adequate
counseling for quality-of-vision risks should be provided to patients with
large pupils that will be treated with a 6.0 mm optical zone." </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f4cccc; color: black; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><u><strong>Ophthalmology, Vol 110, Number 8, August 2003</strong></u></span><o:p><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"> </span></o:p></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="color: red;">Lee T. Nordan, MD:</span> "Refractive surgery routinely
requires multiple procedures through the years if a patient desires excellent
distance vision."</span></div>
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<a href="http://www.crstoday.com/PDF%20Articles/0206/CRST0206_focus.html" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">http://www.crstoday.com/PDF%20Articles/0206/CRST0206_focus.html</span></a><o:p><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"> </span></o:p></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="color: red;">Marguerite McDonald, MD:</span> "With LASIK, roughly half of
my patients had dry eye complaints after surgery-and in about half of these,
the symptoms were severe." </span></div>
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<a href="http://www.refractiveeyecare.com/Dec05%20-%20McDonald.htm" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">http://www.refractiveeyecare.com/Dec05%20-%20McDonald.htm</span></a><o:p><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"> </span></o:p></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Mantry S, Shah S.: "Indeed, the long-term problems
created by laser refractive surgery are not yet a major issue, but soon will
be."</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f4cccc; color: black; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><strong><u>Clin Experiment Ophthalmol. 2005 Apr;33(2):115-6.</u></strong></span><o:p><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"> </span></o:p></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="color: red;">Paul Koch, MD:</span> " 'We have lens implants that can do
that,' I continue. 'Oh, I know,' the patient interrupts.' I smile, as I picture
a credit card passing my way."</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f4cccc; color: black; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><strong><u>Ophthalmology Management January, 2006</u></strong></span><o:p><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"> </span></o:p></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="color: red;">Michael W. Malley:</span> "From the perspective of sheer
market size and potential penetration, however, it’s hard for a refractive
surgeon not to lick his chops when comparing the LASIK market to that of
refractive lens exchange."</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="color: red;">Marguerite McDonald:</span> “I think surface ablation is appealing
because your heart rate doesn’t go up when you do it, and you don’t have to
deal with a [LASIK] flap.”</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f4cccc; color: black; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><u><strong>Review of Ophthalmology Vol. No: 10:02Issue: 2/15/03</strong></u></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="color: red;">Ron Krueger:</span> "Further evidence demonstrates that the
brain does seem to adjust over time, even if it does take a year or two."</span></div>
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<a href="http://www.escrs.org/Publications/Eurotimes/04april/pdf/Wavefront%20custom.pdf" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">http://www.escrs.org/Publications/Eurotimes/04april/pdf/Wavefront%20custom.pdf</span></a><o:p><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"> </span></o:p></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="color: red;">Richard F. Callaway, MD:</span> “Don’t create a higher standard for
yourself than you need to."</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f4cccc; color: black; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><u><strong>OCULAR SURGERY NEWS 4/15/2006</strong></u></span><o:p><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"> </span></o:p></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="color: red;">George O. Waring, MD:</span> "Refractive surgery is surgery
done by a physician, a surgeon, on a fellow human, operating on the organ
through which we get 80% of our information."</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f4cccc; color: black; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><u><strong>EyeWorld, July 2001</strong></u></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">"Since a large part of this rigid anterior part of the
stroma is either removed (PRK) or intersected (LASIK), it is possible that in
the long run patients who underwent refractive surgery may be confronted with
optical problems."</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">British Journal of Ophthalmology </span><a href="http://bjo.bmjjournals.com/cgi/content/full/85/4/437" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">http://bjo.bmjjournals.com/cgi/content/full/85/4/437</span></a><o:p><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"> </span></o:p></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="color: red;">Eric D. Donnenfeld, MD:</span> "When there are large gray
areas or your views are discrepant with the norm, please keep your opinion to
yourself and outside of a court of law. We should not be held to today’s
standards in a malpractice event that took place several years ago."</span></div>
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<a href="http://www.crstoday.com/PDF%20Articles/0106/CRST0106_Lawsuit.html" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">http://www.crstoday.com/PDF%20Articles/0106/CRST0106_Lawsuit.html</span></a><o:p><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"> </span></o:p></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="color: red;">CLAYTON Y. GUSHIKEN, O.D. Honolulu:</span> "As an optometrist,
I am not recommending this procedure. History will teach us that the cornea is
not a structure we can mess around with. The risks (e.g., current surgical
mishaps and potentially devastating long-term complications) are simply not
worth it."</span><a href="http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,992418,00.html" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,992418,00.html</span></a></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="color: red;">James J. Salz, MD:</span> "..I have heard bilateral LASIK
advocates seriously state that this is one reason to do the two eyes together,
so that the patient can’t compare the LASIK eye with the contact lens
eye!"</span></div>
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><u>www .D</u></span><a href="http://drsalz.com/bilateral_lasik.htm" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">rsalz.com/bilateral_lasik.htm</span></a><o:p><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"> </span></o:p></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="color: red;">Robert K. Maloney, MD:</span> "One of the things that has been
very striking to me is how my most angry patients often have pretty good
results and often my patients with the worst results are relatively benign and
trusting."</span></div>
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<a href="http://www.eyeworld.org/article.php?sid=1180" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">www.eyeworld.org/article.php?sid=1180</span></a><o:p><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"> </span></o:p></div>
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<span style="color: red;">Shareef Mahdavi, LASIK Marketing Consultant:</span> "What is
interesting about the Baby Boomers is that they are now between the ages of 42
and 60. They are going to develop presbyopia and they are going to develop
cataracts for the most part, and that is good news. The even better news is
when you look at their financial situation. They are generally past their peak
debt and are moving into their peak net worth in spending and investments.
Thus, these are good tail-wind dynamics for you as surgeons."</div>
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<a href="http://www.osnsupersite.com/view.asp?rID=18428" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">http://www.osnsupersite.com/view.asp?rID=18428</span></a></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="color: red;">Mark G. Speaker, MD:</span> "Criticism of care from another
doctor is often a trigger for a lawsuit."</span></div>
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<u><strong><span style="background-color: #f4cccc; color: black; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">OSN SuperSite Top Story 10/20/2006</span><o:p><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"> </span></o:p></strong></u></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="color: red;">Lee T. Nordan, MD:</span> "In my experience, the odds that an
eye with a corneal thickness of 500μm will develop ectasia postoperatively are
a lot higher than 5%. I would estimate a risk of between 50% and 75%."</span></div>
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<a href="http://www.crstoday.com/PDF%20Articles/1006/CRST1006_Nordan.php" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">www.crstoday.com/PDF%20Articles/1006/CRST1006_Nordan.php</span></a></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="color: red;">Steven E. Wilson, MD:</span> "You can’t have 20/15 vision with
a 20/40 brain." </span><a href="http://www.escrs.org/Publications/Eurotimes/04april/pdf/Wavefront%20custom.pdf" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">http://www.escrs.org/Publications/Eurotimes/04april/pdf/Wavefront%20custom.pdf</span></a></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="color: red;">Thomas R. Quackenbush, Vision Educator:</span> "A primary
tenet of orthodox medicine has been never to perform surgery on healthy tissue.
It appears this tenet has now changed. Obviously, many people have better
acuity soon after these surgeries--but what about the long-term consequences?"
Source: Relearning to See.</span><o:p><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"> </span></o:p></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="color: red;">Emanuel Rosen MD FRCS:</span> “When we alter the quality of
people's vision we alter the quality of people's lives, it's a life-changing
experience.” Source</span></div>
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</span>LASIK ADVISORYhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06454878522212705080noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5806712963278024253.post-29697415696805373452013-06-16T06:38:00.003-07:002013-06-25T05:33:08.761-07:00WHICH LASIK SURGEONS HAVE A FINANCIALLY-BIASED INTEREST IN KEEPING LASIK LOOKING SAFE AND COULD BE "COOKING" THE SAFETY STUDIES FOR PROFIT? <div style="text-align: center;">
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<span style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: x-large;"><strong><em>WHICH LASIK SURGEONS HAVE A FINANCIALLY-BIASED INTEREST IN KEEPING LASIK LOOKING SAFE AND COULD BE "COOKING" THE SAFETY STUDIES FOR PROFIT?</em></strong></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><em><span style="color: black;">The following disclosures are from the LASIK WORLD LITERATURE
REVIEW (95.4% satisfaction POS article) which was published in 2009.
Richard Lindstrom takes the prize. <span style="background-color: #f4cccc;">(I'm still trying to understand
Schallhorn's involvement in a $45 million Defense contract -- which was
announced immediately following Schallhorn's retirement from the Navy --
awarded to IntraLase, which was acquired by Advanced Medical Optics, in which
Schallhorn has financial interests.)</span> </span><span style="color: black;"><o:p> </o:p></span></em></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><em><span style="color: black;"><o:p></o:p></span></em></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"><span style="color: red;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><em><strong>Jennifer Morse </strong><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: red;"><strong>ASCRS consultant and former Navy Program Director for Psychiatry in San Diego, talked about the benefits of LASIK in military and civilian populations, and asserted that there is no scientific evidence of any direct link between LASIK and depression or suicide.</strong> </span>Several months later at an AAO annual meeting, Dr. Morse spoke about dissatisfied LASIK patients, saying there must be some neurologic disconnect between what their eyes are seeing and what their brain is processing. It should be known that ASCRS paid all of Dr. Morse’s travel expenses to attend the hearing and produce a "biased testimony" that many say was a "cooked testimony" to make sure there were no connections between having a bad LASIK outcome and having depression.</span></em></span></span></span></div>
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<a href="http://www.eyeworld.org/article.php?sid=4653"><span style="color: blue; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><strong>http://www.eyeworld.org/article.php?sid=4653</strong></span></a><span style="color: black;"><br /><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_TEejJ7J22I"><span style="color: blue;"></span></a><span style="color: blue; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_TEejJ7J22I"><strong>http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_TEejJ7J22I</strong></a></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><em><span style="color: black; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"><span style="color: red;"><strong>Kerry D. Solomon is a consultant for</strong></span>
Alcon Laboratories, Inc., Allergan, </span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">Inc.,
Advanced Medical Optics, Advanced Vision Research, Bausch & Lomb,
Incorporated, Eyemaginations, Inc., and QLT. </span></em></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><em></em></span> </div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><em><span style="color: black; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"><strong><span style="color: red;">Eric D. Donnenfeld is a consultant for</span></strong>
Alcon Laboratories, Inc., Allergan, Inc., Advanced Medical Optics,
Advanced Vision Research, Bausch & Lomb, Incorporated, Eyemaginations,
Inc., Pfizer, QLT, TLC, and Wavetec. </span><span style="color: black;"><o:p> </o:p></span></em></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><em></em></span> </div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><em><span style="color: black; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"><strong><span style="color: red;">Richard L. Lindstrom is a consultant
for</span></strong> AcuFocus Inc, Advanced Medical Optics, Advanced Refractive Technologies,
Alcon Laboratories, AVS, Bausch and Lomb, Inc, BioSyntrx, Clarity
Ophthalmics, Clear Sight, CoDa Therapeutics, EBV Partners, Egg Factory,
Encore, Eyemaginations, Inc, Glaukos Corporation, High Performance Optics,
Improve Your Vision, I-Therapeutix, Lensar, LenSX, S.V.L. Sciences,
Midwest Surgical Services, Minnesota Eye Consultants, P.A., Neurovision,
NuLens, OccuLogix, Ocular Surgery News/Slack, Omeros Corporation, Pixel Optics,
Quest, Refractec, RXVP, Supply Eye, 3-D Vision Systems, TCL Vision, Tracey
Technologies, Versant, and Vision Solutions Technologies.</span><span style="color: black;"><o:p> </o:p></span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">Supported in part by the American
Society of Cataract and Refractive </span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">Surgery Foundation, Fairfax, Virginia;
NIH/NEI EY-014793 (vision core); </span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">and an unrestricted grant to MUSC-SEI
from Research to Prevent Blindness, New York, NY.</span> </em></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><em> </em></span></div>
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<span style="color: red; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><em><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: red;"><strong>Steven Schallhorn is a consultant and many feel has a biased/financial incentive to keep LASIK SAFETY STUDIES looking good (COOKED)</strong></span> so he can continue to reap millions!</span> </em></span></span><br />
<span style="color: red; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><em></em></span></span><br />
<span style="color: red; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><em><strong>More of Steve Schallhorn/Navy/Femtosecond Laser:</strong></em></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><em><strong>Ties
to Navy Ophthalmologist and Department of Defense:</strong>
(they are handling the LASIK quality of life study shown here, again, before
the study has even begun, they are boasting a 95.4% patient satisfaction rate
and that it will prove LASIK to be safe and effective)<br />
</em></span><a href="http://www.fda.gov/NewsEvents/Newsroom/PressAnnouncements/ucm186858.htm"><span style="color: blue; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><em>http://www.fda.gov/NewsEvents/Newsroom/PressAnnouncements/ucm186858.htm</em></span></a><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</em></span><span style="color: black;"><br /><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><em>
<strong>The Department of Defense and Navy are covering all of this up.</strong> They
control the fabricated studies, and then report back to the FDA that LASIK is
safe. They try to back it up using “navy and army guys in the field of
battle and in “live or die” “intense situations,” which of course they will do
better than having to wear contacts or glasses! But you can’t compare
that to daily, un battle like situations behind a desk, on the computer,
driving a car, as eye pain post surgery is “UNACCECPTABLE” etc…
Below is a timeline, showing a huge “medical cover-up” with a <b>$</b></em></span></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><em><b><span style="font-size: 10pt;">45 Million dollar
DOD contract on Intralase: “the laser that never had any clinical
studies, yet Dr. Steven Schallhorn, who has financial interests in AMO parent
company, owns an interest in the company that received a lot of these profits,
one month after he resigned from the DOD…” This is corrupt! Now the
Navy is urging “happy patients” to go online and issue “happy” comments here:<br />
</span></b><span style="color: black;"><a href="http://www.regulations.gov/"><span style="color: blue;">www.regulations.gov</span></a></span></em></span></div>
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<span style="background: yellow; color: black; font-family: "Cambria","serif"; mso-highlight: yellow;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><em>For clarification, very few people ever
submit a comments to the LASIK docket on </em></span><a href="http://www.regulations.gov/"><span style="color: blue; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><em>www.regulations.gov</em></span></a><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><em> . It's not
like MedWatch reports on the FDA’s website. When you have 15
submissions on the LASIK docket from one source, that sticks out like a sore thumb.
And that source just happens to be the Navy, who is supposed to conduct an
investigation of LASIK for the FDA?....</em></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><em> Here is what Sargeant Scott Barnes said at the FDA Panel I spoke
at: </em></span><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AVFh0vNX60M"><span style="color: blue; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><em>http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AVFh0vNX60M</em></span></a><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><em>
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<b><u><span style="color: black; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><em>Look at this, here it is all spelled out, for you to see the
blueprint unfold:</em></span></u></b></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: 18pt;"> </span>On
March 10, 2008 an online publication of the America Society of Cataract and
Refractive Surgery (ASCRS) reported: <br />
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<span style="background-color: yellow;">“In a ground breaking interaction, the U.S. Food
and Drug Administration (FDA), approached the American Society of Cataract and
Refractive Surgery (ASCRS)<b> in the fall of 2006</b> for guidance in designing
a study to that would identify extremely dissatisfied post-LASIK patients,
define their significant symptoms, and the impact of those symptoms on quality
of life.”</span></em></span><br />
<a href="http://www.eyeworld.org/ewweek.php?id=507"><span style="color: blue; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><em>http://www.eyeworld.org/ewweek.php?id=507</em></span></a></div>
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On March 17, 2008, the America Academy of Ophthalmology (AAO) issued a press
release announcing, “Organized Ophthalmology and Government Agencies Discuss
Study Design for Dissatisfied LASIK Patient Clinical Trial”.<br />
</em></span><a href="http://www.aao.org/newsroom/release/20080317.cfm"><span style="color: blue; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><em>http://www.aao.org/newsroom/release/20080317.cfm</em></span></a><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><em>
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<strong>On April 7, 2008, ASCRS issued a similar press release:</strong><br />
</em></span><a href="http://www.ascrs.org/press_releases/ASCRS-TO-PARTICIPATE-IN-AND-CO-FUND-STUDY-ON-POST-LASIK-QUALITY-OF-LIFE-WITH-US-FOOD-AND-DRUG-ADMINISTRATION.cfm"><span style="color: blue; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><em>http://www.ascrs.org/press_releases/ASCRS-TO-PARTICIPATE-IN-AND-CO-FUND-STUDY-ON-POST-LASIK-QUALITY-OF-LIFE-WITH-US-FOOD-AND-DRUG-ADMINISTRATION.cfm</em></span></a><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><em>
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On April 24, 2008, Bloomberg.com quoted Daniel Schultz, then-director of
FDA’s Center for Devices and Radiological Health (CDRH), as saying that the
LASIK study involving organized ophthalmology would begin <b>no later than 2009</b>:
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<span style="background-color: yellow; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><em>“The Food and Drug
Administration, working with doctors' groups and the National Eye Institute,
plans to study how Lasik affects patients' quality of life <b>no later than
next year</b>, Daniel Schultz, head of the agency's medical devices center,
said today. Identifying why complications occur will help those considering
Lasik make more educated choices, he said.”</em></span><br />
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On April 25, 2008, the FDA held a public meeting of the Ophthalmic Devices
advisory panel to discuss post-marketing experience with LASIK. LASIK patients,
family members of LASIK patients, physicians, psychologists, and optometrists
spoke about the high incidence of LASIK complications and the emotional toll
that a bad outcome from LASIK takes on patients. Several LASIK-related
suicides and suicide attempts were reported at the meeting. Organized
ophthalmology representatives and active-duty and retired Navy and Army
physicians gave testimony asserting that LASIK is safe and effective, and denied
any connection between a bad outcome from LASIK and depression.
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<b><span style="background: yellow; mso-highlight: yellow;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><em><span style="color: red;">At
the public hearing, Dr. Jennifer Morse,</span> <span style="color: red;">ASCRS consultant and former Navy
Program Director for Psychiatry in San Diego, talked about the benefits of
LASIK in military and civilian populations, and asserted that there is no
scientific evidence of any direct link between LASIK and depression or suicide.</span>
Several months later at an AAO annual meeting, Dr. Morse spoke about
dissatisfied LASIK patients, saying there must be some neurologic disconnect
between what their eyes are seeing and what their brain is processing.</em></span></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="background: yellow; color: red; mso-highlight: yellow;">ASCRS paid Dr.
Morse’s travel expenses to attend the hearing.</span> <o:p></o:p></b><br />
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LASIK surgeon, Dr. Steve Schallhorn who retired from the
Navy in early 2007, also spoke at the April, 2008 FDA hearing. Dr. Schallhorn
is a paid medical malpractice defense expert witness, has made public
statements and published literature denying connection between a poor LASIK
outcome and diminished quality of life, and is currently medical director of
one of the largest corporate providers of LASIK in the world. Said Schallhorn: <o:p> </o:p></em></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: yellow; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><em>“While in the Navy, I founded
the Department of Defense Refractive Surgery Program and directed the Navy
program since its inception in 1993… For disclosures, I currently [sic] as a
consultant to AMO, a company that markets an excimer laser… LASIK is safe and
effective… Patient satisfaction after LASIK is excellent, higher than that
reported for other forms of elective surgery.”</em></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><em><span style="color: red;"><strong>On April 8, 2008, just prior to the FDA hearing, Dr.
Schallhorn was quoted in OSN Supersite online saying:</strong></span><o:p> </o:p></em></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: yellow; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><em>"I think it's important
that there's an appreciation that what we're talking about here is not the
safety and effectiveness of LASIK. That has never been an issue.”</em></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><em><strong><span style="color: red;">Dr. Schallhorn was quoted in a December, 2009 article in the
Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) asserting that the FDA LASIK
study will find that LASIK is safe and effective and improves patients’ quality
of life.</span></strong> <o:p> </o:p></em></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><em><span style="background-color: yellow;">Steven C. Schallhorn, MD,
chairman of the Optical Express International Medical Advisory Board, said he
is confident that once the quality-of-life issues are studied, LASIK will be
shown to be even more safe and effective. Schallhorn, who is currently a
consultant to 2 LASIK companies, bases his opinion on his prior work as a
captain in the Navy… "But in the context of the military and looking at
issues of quality of life and the impact LASIK has, it is not only a
life-changing event, but a performance-enhancing procedure," Schallhorn
said. "The FDA study will come tothe same conclusion," he predicted.</span><o:p> </o:p></em></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><em>Source: Mitka M. FDA focuses on
quality-of-life issues for patients following LASIK surgery. JAMA. 2009 Dec
9;302(22):2420, 2422.<o:p> </o:p></em></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><em>Interestingly, in December 2006,
<strong><u><span style="color: red;">approximately one month before Dr. Schallhorn’s retirement from the Navy,</span></u></strong> <b>IntraLase</b>
<strong><span style="color: red;">announced that the Department of Defense had awarded the company a $45 million,
5-year contract to supply its FS femtosecond (LASIK flap maker) lasers to the
U.S. Army, Navy, Air Force, Marine Corps and federal civilian agencies.</span></strong> </em></span></div>
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IntraLase (see Exhibit 1).</strong></span> <o:p> </o:p></em></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><em><span style="background-color: yellow;">A third Navy physician, David J. Tanzer, M.D., Program Director
of the Navy Refractive Surgery Program in San Diego, was an invited guest
speaker at the April, 2008 FDA hearing. Dr. Tanzer asserted that LASIK is
safer than contact lenses. Dr. Tanzer emphasized the success and operational
benefits of LASIK in the military, and reported that satisfaction is high. Dr.
Tanzer is co-author of a February 2009 peer-reviewed study with Dr. Morse and
Dr. Schallhorn which states that patients who are depressed before LASIK are
more likely to be dissatisfied with their vision after LASIK. Dr. Tanzer has
published several papers with Dr. Schallhorn, all favorable to LASIK. TLC Laser
Eye Centers, a large corporate provider of LASIK, lists Dr. Tanzer among its
LASIK surgeons on the company’s website.</span> </em></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: yellow; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><em>Also appearing at the April, 2008 FDA hearing was Lt. Col.
Scott Barnes, MD, an Army eye surgeon, who made an impassioned plea on behalf
of soldiers at Fort Bragg in North Carolina:</em></span></div>
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</span><span style="background-color: yellow;"> "Please don't take
[LASIK] away from us."</span> <span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;"><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AVFh0vNX60M"><span style="color: blue;">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AVFh0vNX60M</span></a>
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the July, 2008 issue of Current Opinion in Ophthalmology, <strong><u>which apparently
contradicts his FDA testimony:</u></strong> <o:p> </o:p></em></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: yellow; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><em>"At Fort Bragg, North
Carolina, the Army surgeons have moved [from LASIK] to 100% surface
ablation in the past 2 years; the five known traumatic flap dislocations (out
of 2500 procedures) due to 'typical' soldier activities contributed to this
change but not as much as an analysis of the visual outcomes."</em></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><em><span style="color: red;"><strong>Obviously, Lt. Col. Scott Barnes was already aware of the
potential for traumatic flap dislocation and poorer visual outcomes with LASIK
eye surgery when he testified.</strong></span> <o:p> </o:p></em></span></div>
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In April, 2009, ASCRS held its annual convention in San Francisco. At the
convention, LASIK surgeons performed skits making fun of suicidal LASIK
patients. One skit poked fun at patients who complain of halos and glare
after refractive surgery. Another skit featured Dr. Parag Majmudar as
"Dr. I. M. Suicidal" singing of "pushing the boundaries of
ethics". The skits were published on YouTube by Dr. Majmudar.<br />
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In May 2009, Scott Tolchin, a LASIK patient advocate, sent a
letter to members of the U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Energy and
Commerce and Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations and others members of
Congress seeking an immediate moratorium on the use of excimer lasers for LASIK
surgery based on an approximate 20 percent incidence of complications,
including dry eyes and night vision problems, reported by patients in FDA LASIK
clinical trials. The letter states, in part: <o:p> </o:p></em></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: yellow;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><em>The FDA announced that further
study of LASIK dissatisfaction was needed and reported that it had formed an
unprecedented partnership with LASIK professional groups to conduct a
prospective LASIK study to begin in 2009. The proposed study amounts to <b>putting
the fox in charge of the hen house</b>. Surgeons selected to lead the study
include those with <b>direct ties to LASIK device manufactures - a clear
conflict of interest</b>.<o:p></o:p></em></span></span></div>
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On October 15, 2009, the FDA announced that it had launched a collaborative study
with the National Eye Institute (NEI) and the Department of Defense to examine
the potential impact on quality of life from LASIK.<br />
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<span style="background-color: yellow;">“Phase 2 will evaluate the quality of life and
satisfaction following LASIK as reported by patients in a select, active duty
population treated at the <b>Navy Refractive Surgery Center at Naval Medical
Center San Diego</b>.”</span></em></span><br />
<a href="http://www.fda.gov/ForConsumers/ConsumerUpdates/ucm187351.htm"><span style="color: blue; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><em>http://www.fda.gov/ForConsumers/ConsumerUpdates/ucm187351.htm</em></span></a></div>
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The FDA did not, however, explain the sudden departure of ‘organized
ophthalmology’ from the proposed LASIK study. <br />
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In November 2009, the FDA reopened a public docket to
continue to receive public comments to assist the agency in identifying ways in
which it can improve its public outreach efforts regarding the safety and
effectiveness of LASIK devices. Recently, many of the positive comments
about LASIK have been submitted by military LASIK patients at the direction of
Navy LASIK surgeons in an obvious attempt to slant the FDA's LASIK
investigation findings. <o:p> </o:p></em></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><em>In light of the financial conflicts of interest and bias
exhibited by current and former Department of Defense physicians, and tainting
of the public docket, the FDA should remove the Navy from phase 2 of the
proposed LASIK study. </em></span></div>
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To date, the FDA has not explained the 3-plus year delay (from the time it
approached ASCRS) in investigating LASIK dissatisfaction. Although new
safety concerns have been raised, LASIK continues to be performed unabated in
direct conflict with FDA’s mission to protect the American public from unsafe
medical devices. Considering the elective nature of LASIK and the fact
that LASIK carries significant risk to patients’ vital sense of sight, this is
unacceptable. <br />
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<span style="color: red;"><strong>EXHIBIT 1</strong></span></em></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><em><span style="background: yellow; mso-highlight: yellow;">In December 2006, approximately one month before Dr.
Schallhorn’s retirement from the Navy, <b>IntraLase</b> announced that the
Department of Defense had awarded the company a $45 million, 5-year contract to
supply its FS femtosecond (LASIK flap maker) lasers to the U.S. Army, Navy, Air
Force, Marine Corps and federal civilian agencies.</span> </em></span></div>
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<a href="http://www.osnsupersite.com/view.aspx?rid=20499"><span style="color: blue; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><em>http://www.osnsupersite.com/view.aspx?rid=20499</em></span></a><o:p><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><em> </em></span></o:p></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><em><span style="background-color: yellow;">In January 2007, Forbes.com
announced that IntraLase was acquired by Advanced Medical Optics (AMO).</span> </em></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><em><span style="background: yellow; mso-highlight: yellow;">In June 2007, EyeWorld magazine reported that Dr.
Schallhorn was a consultant for Advanced Medical Optics (AMO), parent company
of IntraLase.</span> </em></span></div>
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<a href="http://www.eyeworld.org/article-reducing-hoas-to-improve-quality-of-vision"><span style="color: blue; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><em>http://www.eyeworld.org/article-reducing-hoas-to-improve-quality-of-vision</em></span></a><o:p><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><em> </em></span></o:p></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><em><span style="background: yellow; mso-highlight: yellow;">In November 2007, EyeWorld magazine reported that Dr.
Schallhorn had financial interests with Advanced Medical Optics.</span> </em></span></div>
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</em></span><a href="http://www.eyeworld.org/article-femto-laser-for-intrastromal-ablation"><span style="color: blue; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><em>http://www.eyeworld.org/article-femto-laser-for-intrastromal-ablation</em></span></a><o:p><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><em> </em></span></o:p></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><em><span style="background: yellow; mso-highlight: yellow;">Dr. Schallhorn's daughter, Erin Schallhorn, was employed
by AMO at the time the defense contract was awarded.</span> </em></span></div>
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<a href="http://www.linkedin.com/pub/erin-schallhorn/3/a5b/924"><span style="color: blue; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><em>http://www.linkedin.com/pub/erin-schallhorn/3/a5b/924</em></span></a><o:p><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><em> </em></span></o:p></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><em><span style="background: yellow; mso-highlight: yellow;">The article at the following link states that Erin
Schallhorn is the daughter of Dr. Steve Schallhorn:</span> </em></span></div>
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<span style="color: red;"><strong>CAN ANYONE EXPLAIN TO ME WHY RESEARCH TO PREVENT BLINDNESS IS FUNDING THIS KIND OF JUNK SCIENCE...CALLED LASIK, THE ELECTIVE SURGERY THAT WASN'T EVEN NEEDED IN THE FIRST PLACE, THAT TAKES A PERFECTLY HEALTHY EYE AND MAKES IT SICK AND DISEASED FOR LIFE? LETS SEE WHO AT THE NAVY IS INVOLVED INPROFITING FROM SAFE LASIK SAFETY STUDIES SHALL WE?</strong></span></em></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><em> </em></span></div>
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<span style="color: red;"><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; color: black; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list .5in;">
<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><em><span style="color: black;"><strong><span style="color: red;">Col. Scott D. Barnes, MD</span></strong>, is stationed at Womack Army
Medical Center, Fort Bragg, NC 28310. He can be reached at COL Scott
Barnes, Dept. of Ophthalmology-WAMC, Fort Bragg, NC 28310; <span class="skypepnhprintcontainer">910-907-7921</span><span class="skypepnhmark">
</span><span class="skypepnhtextspan">910-907-7921</span><span class="skypepnhrightspan"> </span><span class="skypepnhcontainer"> </span>e-mail:</span> </em></span><a href="mailto:scott.d.barnes@us.army.mil"><span style="color: blue; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><em>scott.d.barnes@us.army.mil</em></span></a><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><em>.
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><em><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="color: black;"><strong><span style="color: red;">Lt. Col. Charles D. Reilly, MD,</span></strong> can be reached at 59
SSS/SGO2E, Wilford Hall USAF Medical Center, Lackland AFB, 2200 Bergquest
Drive, Suite 1, San Antonio, TX 78236-5300; <span class="skypepnhprintcontainer">210-292-2010</span><span class="skypepnhmark">
; </span></span></span><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="color: black;"><span class="skypepnhtextspan">210-292-2010</span><span class="skypepnhrightspan"> </span><span class="skypepnhcontainer"> </span>
fax: 210-292-2313; Email:</span> <a href="mailto:charles.reilly@lackland.af.mil"><span style="color: blue;">charles.reilly@lackland.af.mil</span></a>.
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><em><strong><span style="color: red;">Steven C. Schallhorn, MD,</span></strong> can be reached at </em></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><em><span style="color: black;">Email:</span> </em></span><a href="mailto:scschallhorn@yahoo.com"><span style="color: blue; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><em>scschallhorn@yahoo.com</em></span></a><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><em> <span style="color: black;">.</span>
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</em></span><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; color: black; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list .5in;">
<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><em><strong><span style="color: red;">Capt. David J. Tanzer, MD,</span></strong> can be reached at Naval
Medical Center San Diego, 34800 Bob Wilson Drive, San Diego, CA 92135; <span class="skypepnhprintcontainer">619-532-6700</span><span class="skypepnhmark">
</span><span class="skypepnhtextspan">619-532-6700</span><span class="skypepnhrightspan"> </span><span class="skypepnhcontainer"> </span></em></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span class="skypepnhcontainer"></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><em><span style="color: black;">Email:</span> </em></span><a href="mailto:david.tanzer@med.navy.mil"><span style="color: blue; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><em>david.tanzer@med.navy.mil</em></span></a><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><em><span style="color: black;"> .</span> </em></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;"><strong><u><em>LETS SEE WHAT SCHALLHORN'S OWN </em></u></strong></span></div>
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<span style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;"><strong><u><em>NAVY RECRUITS ARE SAYING ABOUT HIM?</em></u></strong></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><a href="http://www.airwarriors.com/forum/showthread.php/148182-Starbursting-af"><span style="color: blue; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><em>http://www.airwarriors.com/forum/showthread.php/148182-Starbursting-af</em></span></a><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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opinions say he controlled a lot of the LASIK studies and possibly falsified or
doctored them up while in the Navy and made a fortune from the Intralase
Femtosecond laser which really never went through any FDA Approvals, somehow
side stepped the FDA approval/trials process) below…</em></span></span></b><span style="color: #3e3e3e; font-size: 9pt;"><v:shapetype coordsize="21600,21600" filled="f" id="_x0000_t75" o:preferrelative="t" o:spt="75" path="m@4@5l@4@11@9@11@9@5xe" stroked="f"><v:stroke joinstyle="miter"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><em><v:formulas><v:f eqn="if lineDrawn pixelLineWidth 0"><v:f eqn="sum @0 1 0"><v:f eqn="sum 0 0 @1">
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CustomVue PRK on Nov. 20th 2008. I am currently just under 5 months post op,
20/15 in both eyes but still experienceing some starbursting. It has slowly
gotten better over the past month. I was wondering what other peoples
experience has been and how long it took for their starbursting to deminish.</span><span lang="EN" style="color: #3e3e3e; font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt; mso-ansi-language: EN;"><o:p></o:p></span></em></div>
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a Navy doc during my recent eye exam:
"Statistics show that pilots and applicants experience very few PRK
complications compared to the rest of the population."
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applicant that has starbursts.</span></span></span><span style="color: black; font-size: 14pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></em></span></div>
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used.”<br />
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not be detected in an eye exam -- it is almost completely subjective. It is
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Navy and Air Force was an F-14 pilot before going to med school (TOPGUN
Instructor, highest score ever recorded in a scored ACM exercise at the annual
F-14 fighter derby, real underachiever). </span><b><u><span lang="EN" style="background: yellow; color: red; font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-highlight: yellow;">He claims that he had
horrible starbursts and actually thought it was normal before he became an
ophthalmologist</span></u></b><b><u><span lang="EN" style="color: red; font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt; mso-ansi-language: EN;">.”</span></u></b></em></span></span><span lang="EN" style="color: #3e3e3e; font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt; mso-ansi-language: EN;"><br /><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><em>
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vs. treatment zone size. Do you know the size of your fully dilated pupil and
the size of the area of your cornea that was treated (it should be on your
surgical records)? The other common indicators are bad surgeons and bad luck.”</span></em></span></span><span style="color: black; font-size: 14pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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LASIK ADVISORYhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06454878522212705080noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5806712963278024253.post-63526925640927264222013-05-23T18:30:00.001-07:002013-05-26T05:57:03.633-07:00ON MAY 18TH, 2013 "THETONYSTILESSHOW" BLASTED LASIK IN FRONT OF THEIR ONLINE AUDIENCES:<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<strong><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">THE 'TONY STILES SHOW' FEATURES NUMBER ONE ANTI-LASIK ADVOCATE, DEAN ANDREW KANTIS, FOUNDER OF </span><a href="http://www.lifeafterlasik.com/"><span style="color: blue; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">WWW.LIFEAFTERLASIK.COM</span></a><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"> & </span><a href="http://www.lasikadvisory.com/"><span style="color: blue; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">WWW.LASIKADVISORY.COM</span></a><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">, ABOUT THE CORRUPTION OF THE OPHTHALMOLOGISTS AND THE FDA THAT ARE NOT VOLUNTEERING KNOWN PERMANENT DANGERS OF THE LASIK EPIDEMIC... </span></span></strong></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Lasik surgery is advertised as a nearly miraculous surgical method of vision correction. It has been estimated that since Lasik became widely available in the late 1990s, nearly three quarters of a million patients have undergone the laser eye surgery. <em><u>However, many thousands of those patients have experienced serious complications, ranging from blurred vision to blindness. Some in despair have been driven to suicide.</u></em></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><strong><u>Dean Andrew Kantis, creator of the website</u></strong> </span></span><a href="http://www.lifeafterlasik.com/"><span style="color: blue; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif; font-size: large;">www.LifeAfterLasik.com</span></a><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"> , is among the thousands of Lasik patients who have suffered life-altering complications. In testimony before the Food and Drug Administration, Kantis explained that as a result of the surgery, <span style="background-color: #fff2cc;"><em><strong>"I see double vision, halos, starbursts, [experience] fluctuating vision [and] dry eye syndrome."</strong></em></span> <u>Yet he was told that his procedure was successful.</u></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><strong><u>Is Lasik surgery a blessing, or a curse?</u></strong> How many patients have seen their quality of life adversely affected by what they had been told was a safe and effective vision restoration treatment? What are the risks of Lasik surgery -- and is the public adequately informed of those risks? Dean Kantis joins us today to discuss these important questions.</span></span><br />
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LASIK ADVISORYhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06454878522212705080noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5806712963278024253.post-29009504544211243152013-05-20T18:15:00.002-07:002013-05-25T05:18:45.828-07:00PLEASE CONTRIBUTE TO THIS CAUSE AND WARN OTHERS:<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<strong><span style="font-size: large;"><em><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">We've warned hundreds of thousands of families around the world about the irreversibly-known dangers of every elective LASIK permanent eye reshaping surgery, but we can't stop there! <u><span style="background-color: #d9ead3;">We need YOUR HELP to fund a Publicist, Radio Shows, Online Shows, Social Media Adverisements, Bumper Stickers, Tshirts, Pens, Magnets...etc.</span></u></span></em></span></strong></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><em><strong><span style="background-color: #cfe2f3;">PLEASE...WE NEED YOUR HELP!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>WE WANT YOU TO DECIDE HOW BIG THIS <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>DOCUMENTARY FILM CAN GET...WE WANT YOU TO
DECIDE HOW MANY PEOPLE GET WARNED...WE WANT YOU TO DECIDE HOW MANY PEOPLE DO
NOT FALL PREY INTO NAIVELY CHOOSING TO PERMANENTLY RESHPAE THEIR ONLY EYES, CREATING
A FLAP THAT NEVER HEALS, AND HAVING DRY EYE SYNDROME FOR THE REST OF ONE’S LIFE...WE
WANT YOU TO DECIDE HOW NICE OF A DOCUMENTARY FILM THIS COULD BE...</span></strong></em> </span></div>
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<em><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><u><strong><span style="background-color: #d9ead3;">WE SET THE GOAL AT $50,000 USD (MINIMUM):</span></strong></u><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></em></div>
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<em><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">An absolute minimum of $50,000 will be needed to complete
filming and get us through post production.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>As you know, according to IndieGoGo Rules, we only have only 60
days to raise the contributions for this very important project! More importantly, the message
doesn't travel all over the world at least 100 times over, so that citizens
from all over can be pre-warned to NEVER EVER let a doctor create a permanent
flap in their only healthy and perfect God-given eyes (which opens Pandora's Box
of dry eye, loss of important epithelial cells, and a LASIK flap that the
industry isn't volunteering about how it NEVER HEALS AND CAN EASILY COME OFF
and DOES COME OFF…making it very difficult to fit for soft contact lenses or
correctible with simple glasses).</span></em></div>
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<em><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><u><strong><span style="background-color: #d9ead3;">WHERE WE ARE PRESENTLY:</span></strong></u> </span></em></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><em>In order to deliver a 75-90 minute documentary, it must be
stunning, factually correct, and creatively-professional so that it will get
the BUZZ and go VIRAL so citizens in every country can be properly informed and
warned of the ENTIRE LASIK STORY...<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>"That will warn the masses that LASIK elective and irreversible eye
surgery will never be safe…so families all over the world can be spared from
irreversible and irreparable long term permanent eye injuries."<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>That being said please help with the
following:</em><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<em><strong><span style="color: black;"><span style="background-color: #cfe2f3;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">1.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Contribute any
amount you can....please! You’ll get our immense thanks and our thank-you
Rewards (see right side column for various Reward Levels).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></span></span></strong></em></div>
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<em><strong><span style="background-color: #cfe2f3; color: black;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">2.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Share this
page with as many other people as possible. Please spread this Link.</span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span><a href="http://lasikadvisory.blogspot.com/2013/05/please-contribute-to-this-cause-and.html"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">http://lasikadvisory.blogspot.com/2013/05/please-contribute-to-this-cause-and.html</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">.</span></span></span></strong></em><br />
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<em><strong><span style="background-color: #cfe2f3; color: black; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Please email your friends with
this passionate cry for help because at the very least, we want to make sure
you, your family, and all of those most important to you are warned about the
known long term dangers of every irreversible-elective LASIK eye surgery so
they don't go through what I and thousands of others are going through
daily...DAILY PAIN and there is no known cure!</span></strong></em></div>
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<em><strong><span style="color: black;"><span style="background-color: #cfe2f3; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">3.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Please go to
the RIGHT SIDE of this page and click the Facebook "LIKE" button and share this page with those in your network. </span></span></strong></em></div>
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<em><strong><span style="background-color: #cfe2f3; color: black;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">4.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Please "COPY" this link at the top of this page and post anywhere on your website or Facebook page – at least until we
reach our goal. There’s a handy embed code underneath the video at the top of
the page.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>(Just copy/paste it into
where you wish to have others view this important warning). Here it is: </span><a href="http://lasikadvisory.blogspot.com/2013/05/please-contribute-to-this-cause-and.html"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">http://lasikadvisory.blogspot.com/2013/05/please-contribute-to-this-cause-and.html</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> .</span></span></strong></em></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><em><strong><span style="background-color: #cfe2f3; color: black;">If you can do 1, 2, 3 or 4 of these things, we truly
appreciate it.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Why we need your help and
we need it now to quickly warn everyone all over the world!</span></strong></em> </span></div>
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<em><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Since our bare bone minimum goal is $50,0000.00 to fund this
project, our dream goal is to more than sufficiently fund this project aiming
for $75,000.00 or more...(the estimated amount to sufficiently fund our
documentary film) that because of your contributions in the next 30-60 days,
we’ll be able to accomplish so much!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>REMEMBER...IT'S UP TO YOU...YOU DECIDE HOW BIG THIS GETS AND WHETHER
THIS GOES VIRAL AROUND THE WORLD WARNING EVERYONE...AND IN HAVING THEM WARN
EVERYONE!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The contributions will also
help us finish documenting the lives and struggles of our 4-6 lead characters
through whom this film will illustrate their daily “Post LASIK Struggles.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Each of these people live in different
states, so a large portion of our expenses during production are travel
related.</span></em></div>
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<em><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Also, we will film doctors who daily have devoted their
research and lives to helping "Post LASIK Patients" try to see
"NORMAL" again and why they are against this elective procedure.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But it’s important we hire talented crews so
this will ensure that we have a professional quality audio and video. The
higher the quality, the more we can get our film shown and our message out.
That's where YOU come in!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We need your
support…God bless you and thank you for listening and for forwarding to
everyone you know...Thank you! </span></em></div>
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</em></span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><em>After we complete filming, we’ll have many post-production
costs to make a high-quality film, such as editing, color correction, sound
design, voice-over narration, audio mix, original music score, closed
captioning, translations and deliverables. The film will include a series of
kinetic graphics, in depth corneal topographical graphics, and never before
seen 3D corneal animations that we will create to best illustrate what happens
with a "Post LASIK/Refractive Cornea" over the long term...something
never shown to the public before!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Your
generous contributions will pay for all of</em> <em>this. We really need your help...</em></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><em>If we can raise more than $50,000 with your generosity, we’d
be able to:</em> </span></div>
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<strong><em><span style="background-color: #cfe2f3; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">- Put a little more polish on the post-production of the
film. This should help the documentary get into more film festivals and get
more exposure.</span></em></strong></div>
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<strong><em><span style="background-color: #cfe2f3; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">- Hire a well-known actor to do the voice-over narration.
This can also help the film gain additional exposure from name
recognition.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We can't tell you who yet,
but there is someone very famous and she was permanently and irreparably
damaged from LASIK.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>There are others
too.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But we'll leave that surprise for
you to see when this film is completed...</span></em></strong></div>
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<strong><em><span style="background-color: #cfe2f3; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">- A reality in today’s film market is to spend money in
getting the film “out there”. So, we’re in need of funds to obtain a film rep
and costs related to promotion, such as submitting to and attending film
festivals. Some of the top documentaries you see in the theaters most likely
made a splash on the festival circuit.</span></em></strong></div>
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<strong><em><span style="background-color: #cfe2f3; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">- We’ll work to get a secure a fair and just distribution
deal. But if we can’t, then we’ll use any additional funds to pay for the costs
related to the online distribution, promotion, and world-wide circulation of
the documentary film.</span></em></strong></div>
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<em><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">So if you're reading this and we've already attained our
fundraising goal, please know that your contribution would go to great things
and would be much appreciated.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></em></div>
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<em><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">We decided to produce this LASIK documentary, detailing the
chronological events that led to the present day problem, in order to
illustrate how much "BAD LASIK NEWS" has been put out there for the
public to see.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But yet we still have
found that much of the public didn't see those news bites, nor if they saw
them…believed them.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Instead, the public
since birth, has been taught to "do whatever your doctor says."<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>As with LASIK, this is the case.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And to add further insult to injury, the
irreparably hurt post LASIK eyes do NOT get a second chance...you're stuck with
that painful and distorted vision until death (or until a miracle cure can fix
the most complex organ in the human body...the eyes!).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>That is why we want you to question
everything these LASIK clinics say...Have them put their promises or guarantees
in writing.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></em></div>
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<em><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Lastly, we are looking to crowd source some of our
"Camera Footage" that is needed for the completion of this film and
we want YOU to be in some of this footage!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>We will be releasing more details about eligibility after we hopefully
reach our goal.</span></em><br />
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<em><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">If this issue has touched your life in some way or you feel
there is a need for this film to be made, please leave us comments on any of these pages (comments tab at bottom of this page).</span></em></div>
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<em><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This is an American project that will have an international
effect.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Just know that strangers you and
I don't even know, on some other GPS spot on this planet, will continue with
their "normal life" and make a conscience decision to just say
"NO TO LASIK" because you took the time to make this project
happen.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This is PRICELESS!~</span></em></div>
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<em><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">As with any film and its release plans, applying to
festivals and pursuing distribution lies somewhat beyond our control. While we
hope for this film to reach audiences far and wide, not only through festivals,
but also through digital and traditional distribution, it is never
guaranteed--especially in this cluttered digital age...Our worst case scenario
is to promise YOU that we will make it available online making it very easy to
view from basically anywhere in the world!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>As you can see, it's not about money for us, but rather about WARNING
OTHERS SO THEY DON'T PERMANENTLY INJURE THEIR ONLY EYES!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> However, the earlier we build support with audiences and fans like you, the more we increase our chances! Even the smallest contribution means so much to us, because we know you are behind us. Thank you for supporting our project!</span></span></em></div>
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<strong><em><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">ONLY WITH YOUR HELP, CAN WE MAKE A DIFFERENCE! <u><span style="background-color: #d9ead3;">PLEASE HELP INNOCENT LIVES BE SPARED FROM HAVING THEIR VISION ROBBED OF THEM WHICH WOULD MEAN THAT YOU WOULD BE PREVENTING THEM FROM HAVING TO SEE THESE DISTORTED VISUAL IMAGES:</span></u></span></em></strong></div>
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