Welcome back to New Day Northwe.
If you wear glasses for any rea,
you know that feeling of frustrn
when you can't find them or they break.
Well, the good news is you
aren't tied to those glasses.
With options that go beyond
even LASIK correction surgery.
Doctor Matthew Sharpe,
founder of Sharp Vision,
Modern LASIK and Lens,
joins me now.
It is good to see you again,
my friend.
Likewise,
good to see you. We saw you last
summer talking about my son,
who I put the Evo ICL in.
Yes, which we're gonna
talk about in a minute.
So I think it is so fascinating,
but the one thing that you've
always told me that is crazy
that you think about it now is
that almost anyone can get out
of glasses with the procedures
that are available today.
That's amazing.
It really is. You know, I as a ,
we were just talking about basel
in the last segment and I was thinking
I had thick glasses and it was just a
pain to play some very thick glasses.
So it's always been or always
was a dream of mine.
I had LASIK on my own eyes 25.
Years ago and now started the L,
sharp vision, LASIK and lens in
2012 and we've just expanded,
we're in a brand new center.
We'll have our own surgery center there.
So my vision was that anybody
any age over 18,
anybody over 18 and older all the way
up to 80 and 90 years old somets
if they wanted to regardless of their
prescription get out of glasses
and that we have a procedure for
almost anybody to allow them th.
It's incredible.
Let's go over some of the optio.
We'll start with LASIK because that's
the one that people know the mo.
It's the one that,
but most people unfortunately
think that's the only option.
But tell us what LASIK is and what it does.
Well, I think most people do kn,
as you said, LASIK, that's the t
commonly known procedure and that's using
a laser to shape the front of the eye.
So we're taking the cornea, OK,
which is this sort of clear Dome
over the surface of your iris,
and we just change the curvatur.
With a laser and that way
you can see perfectly.
And there's park,
which is also the same laser,
but it's on the surface of the
eye rather than under a flap
that we make with LASIK. Got
it. Now that you said Park is
the complement to LASIK and it's
performed in place of LASIK for
numerous reasons, isn't that ri?
That's right.
There's certain reasons.
They used to use it in
the military exclusively.
Now they allow LASIK in
the military sometimes
based on the anatomy of.
ABI we choose to do work.
OK, so when you say the anatomye
has to do with the shape of our,
the shape, the thickness of your cornea,
some people just choose it.
The flap is just adds one more step so
Park is a little easier to perf,
a little harder to recover from,
but the results are the same.
So it's generally for people
with moderate medium amounts of
near sightedness and astigmatis,
usually age 18 to 45 and even.
Older sometimes.
OK, OK
you were talking about your son who I met,
who is lovely Evo I CL. That's what he got.
It's generally reserved for those young
people who have a very high prescription.
Why is that and what does it involve?
Well, so the Evo ICL we recommed
for our patients also generallyn
age 21 to 45 is what it's approd
for and it's for people who are.
It's a complement to LASIK
and PRK also sometimes.
People are outside the range of what we
can do with Lasix or treat up to minus 15,
which is very, very thick glass.
I had minus 8, my son had about minus seven.
So when we get up in that minus 6 and up,
we start thinking a little
more about doing the Evo ICL.
And how does that work?
What actually happens when
you do that, if I can ask,
didn't answer it. Yes.
So that's where instead we
don't touch the cornea,
but we put a lens inside the ey,
right behind the iris, so nobody sees it.
It's painless and it just corres
whatever near sightedness and astigmatism
you have takes about 7:00 or 8
minutes and is just real easy t.
And we do quite a few of those
lens in the eye exactly.
You know what I think it's so
interesting the things we can
do right now and there's even
one more thing RLE what is that,
right? So that's similar to the Evo ICL,
but we generally reserve that for our
patients as they get above age 45 because
as we all may realize that pati.
Where people need bifocals or
reading glasses, generally that
happens right about age 45 and .
So the lens of our eyes, the problem there.
So if I can show this,
there's a lens that sits right
behind the colored part of your,
and that lens gets a little less
flexible in our 30s and 40s,
and then it gets less clear
in our 60s and 70s.
So when it's less flexible and
you need to have reading glasse,
we can remove that lens as it starts to fail,
starts to. Become dysfunctional, right.
And then we take that out
through the right at the edge.
So there's a tiny incision right here at the
edge and then we put in an artificial lens.
Now the thing about artificial lenses
is that now they come in multi focal.
So the traditional lens was something like
this where it has just one focal point,
but the newer ones have multi focality.
So if you can see that now, yea,
like the original little rings
and that allows you to.
Be near vision so that you don't need
reading glasses and distance vi.
So if our patients for instance,
came in and they're 50 something
years old and they have glasses,
we can remove their natural len.
Put in an artificial multifocal
lens that corrects everything.
It's sort of a one stop shoppin.
You can correct your near sightedness,
astigmatism,
reading glasses.
And maybe the best part is that
you will not need cataract surgy
because you've already had that
lens removed at 50 rather than .
Ohh,
my
goodness, this is really
visual freedom for everyone.
Thank you always for for
chatting with me about this.
I find it so fascinating and
you know so much about this.
I really appreciate it.
Well thank you.
I'd just love to spread the word
that people are worried about i,
they're afraid it's going to be scary,
painful. But what we do at sharp vision
because of knowing that is that we have
a free comprehensive exam for everybody.
If you say I just don't even kn.
But let me just take that step,
go check it out and like he just mentioned.
You can schedule your free comprehensive
consultation online at sharpvision.com.
Just go right there and check it out.
We also have the link
on our website. Well,
we've got more hot topics coming your way,
including thoughts on a
recent report about, well,
our feelings on certain sandwic.
Yep, that's the thing.
We'll be right back.
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