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2. Stephen Updegraff - Wikipedia

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   Medical career. Field. ophthalmic surgery. Stephen Updegraff, M.D., FACS (born January 31, 1962, in St. Petersburg, Florida) is an American refractive surgeon best known for his early involvement in, and contributions to, LASIK. [1] He is a Fellow of the American College of Surgeons, a board-certified member of the American Board of ...

3. Refractive surgery - Wikipedia

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   Refractive surgery. Refractive surgery is an optional eye surgery used to improve the refractive state of the eye and decrease or eliminate dependency on glasses or contact lenses. This can include various methods of surgical remodeling of the cornea ( keratomileusis ), lens implantation or lens replacement.

4. Clear lens extraction - Wikipedia

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   Clear lens extraction, also known as refractive lensectomy, custom lens replacement or refractive lens exchange is a surgical procedure in which clear lens of the human eye is removed. Unlike cataract surgery , where cloudy lens is removed to treat cataract , clear lens extraction is done to surgically correct refractive errors such as high ...

5. Radial keratotomy - Wikipedia

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   Radial keratotomy ( RK) is a refractive surgical procedure to correct myopia (nearsightedness). It was developed in 1974 by Svyatoslav Fyodorov, a Russian ophthalmologist. It has been largely supplanted by newer, more accurate operations, such as photorefractive keratectomy, LASIK, Epi-LASIK and the phakic intraocular lens.

6. Ophthalmology - Wikipedia

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   Ophthalmology ( / ˌɒfθælˈmɒlədʒi /, OFF-thal-MOL-ə-jee) [ 1] is a clinical and surgical specialty within medicine that deals with the diagnosis and treatment of eye disorders. [ 2] A former term is oculism . An ophthalmologist is a physician who undergoes subspecialty training in medical and surgical eye care. [ 3]

7. Photorefractive keratectomy - Wikipedia

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   Photorefractive keratectomy ( PRK) and laser-assisted sub-epithelial keratectomy (or laser epithelial keratomileusis[ 1]) ( LASEK) are laser eye surgery procedures intended to correct a person's vision, reducing dependency on glasses or contact lenses. LASEK and PRK permanently change the shape of the anterior central cornea using an excimer ...