Columbia, South Carolina – Yesterday, August 23, 2022, Dr. Clary performed a SION bladeless goniotomy. Dr. Clary is the first surgeon in South Carolina to perform this surgery. We are excited to introduce this new technology to our glaucoma patients at The Eye Center.
Refractive vision problems include astigmatism, farsightedness, or nearsightedness. Treatment for these conditions is refractive surgery.
Refractive surgery includes a variety of surgical treatments that help to improve the eye’s refractive state to reduce dependence on contact lenses or glasses. The procedures help to correct vision by allowing the proper direction of light to the retina.
Refractive surgery options include:
The main objective of the refractive procedure is to minimize contact lenses or glasses dependence. Before undergoing the procedure, you should consult an ophthalmologist and consider the benefits and risks.
Candidates for refractive surgery include people with healthy eyes who want to eliminate the need for contact lenses or glasses and those with refractive errors that need correcting.
You cannot undergo refractive surgery if:
Your eye doctor will determine your refractive error by examining your cornea. They’ll check you using topography, pachymetry, and tomography.
Refractive surgery improves vision significantly. Reshaping the cornea through refractive surgery has had a success rate of over 90%. Photorefractive keratomy, for instance, has shown 95% success with people achieving 20/20 vision without the support of corrective lenses. Refractive lens exchange has yielded over 88% success with a visual acuity of 20/40.
Refractive surgery offers convenience, especially to people with contact lens intolerance. In most cases, it eliminates the need to wear contact lenses or glasses.
The Eye Center has been at the forefront of providing comprehensive eye care in South Carolina and surrounding regions. Its goal is to offer the latest eye care procedures to help people who cannot see without contact lenses or glasses. Some of its breakthrough vision procedures include Thin Flap Lasik, Epi-Lasik, PRK CK, Corneal Transplant, AST, PRELEX, and Cataract Surgery.
“Our Center has certified ophthalmologists with high levels of skill and experience to conduct successful eye operations,” said Dr. Clary. “We are committed to excellence, and we work with utmost dedication and compassion towards our patients. The center focuses on delivering high-quality care to ensure our clients are satisfied. We have state-of-the-art facilities, cutting-edge equipment, and sterile technique. We also provide superior services and stringent safety measures to protect patients.”
The Eye Center offers many other services, including treating eye emergencies, conducting diabetic eye exams and healthy eye check-ups, and managing glaucoma. It also offers an in-house dry eye clinic. The center’s full focus on quality medical care has recorded top-notch clinical outcomes. Patients are treated to upscale eye care experiences at all times.
To the Eye Center, the patient is always a priority. They have courteous staff who treat patients with compassion.
Some of its latest breakthroughs in vision treatment include;
Surgeons perform Kahook Dual Blade to treat glaucoma. The procedure helps to release intraocular pressure using targeted incisions.
The Eye Center keeps up with the latest innovations in vision correction to help patients eliminate the need for contact lenses or eyeglasses. Its treatment options offer high-tech solutions that ensure long-term outcomes.
About The Eye Center
The Eye Center is the leading refractive practice in South Carolina, providing full service eye care and specializing in Refractive Surgery – Lasik, AST, PRK, PRELEX, as well as Corneal Transplant and Cataract Surgery.
LASIK surgery uses laser to reshape the corneal tissue and improve vision. The procedure permanently corrects vision. However, age and vision changes (astigmatism or presbyopia) may determine how long the LASIK surgery will last.
LASIK surgery is a permanent option for fixing vision. The procedure is very safe and quick. The recovery time is short, and you can have your vision back one day after surgery. Most can do away with contact lenses or glasses after surgery.
The ideal candidate for LASIK surgery is one who has had an eyeglass prescription for two years and above. They should also have a healthy cornea and eye. The surgery has minimal discomfort and is not painful.
Medical reviews state that laser-assisted in situ keratomileuses can correct vision for a long time. It treats myopia (nearsightedness), astigmatism, and hyperopia (farsightedness).
The procedure is permanent, except in rare cases when correction regresses to its initial condition. When this happens, the patient can undergo a corrective procedure.
As you age, the eye’s crystalline lens gets stiffer, causing a condition called presbyopia. Presbyopia makes it difficult for one to see nearsighted objects. Your vision may also change due to medical conditions like developing cataracts. This impacts the clarity of your vision, which may require additional surgery to enhance the vision.
When the eye ages naturally, it changes your vision even if you have LASIK surgery. The eye lens accommodation will begin to decline, prompting you to use reading glasses even after the LASIK procedure. For such cases, a patient can undergo a modified type of LASIK surgery known as monovision or blended vision. This treatment tricks the eyes into retaining their far and near vision. The procedure may be performed on one dominant eye.
Your eye doctor may recommend LASIK enhancement or correction surgery 10 years after your last LASIK procedure. The LASIK surgery enhancement procedure involves making small changes to reshape your cornea. This happens when your initial LASIK results begin to fade.
Cataracts often affect both eyes if they are age-related. Studies indicate that more people will be diagnosed with cataracts in one or both eyes by age 80.
Usually, surgery is performed to replace your clouded endogenic lens with artificial intraocular lens. For both eyes, bilateral surgery can be carried out simultaneously on the same day or a few weeks between surgeries.
In a recent Cochrane review, they discovered that performing cataract surgery on both eyes the same day or a few days apart produced the same results. However, same-day bilateral surgery could have some consequences.
The benefits and drawbacks of this approach include:
Benefits
Drawbacks
If you have cataracts in both eyes, surgery is usually performed on one eye, and then a few weeks later, it’s performed on the second eye. This allows the first eye to recover and your vision to become normal before surgery is performed on the next eye.
Even though there may be some benefits, many cataract surgeons are reluctant to perform cataract surgery on both eyes simultaneously. The risk of eye infection and other serious complications from cataract surgery is very low. Nevertheless, if both eyes were to become infected or experience complications at the same time, the results could be visually overwhelming for a period and could possibly affect your vision permanently.
A benefit of performing cataract surgery on each eye with time in between allows you and your doctor to evaluate the visual outcome of the first surgery, which might effect choices made for the second surgery.
During your pre-operative eye exam, ask your eye doctor or cataract surgeon to discuss the pros and cons of all your cataract surgery options to determine the best choices for your particular needs.
Columbia, South Carolina – The Eye Center provides full-service eye care with a specialty in Refractive surgery. Its areas of specialization include glaucoma surgery, thin flap Lasik, PREFLEX, AST, Cataract surgery, and corneal transplant.
The Eye Center now offers advanced treatment for diabetic retinopathy, a condition that weakens the blood vessels in the eye, causing hemorrhage.
“Diabetic eye disease is one of the causes of retinal blindness in 2 to 64-year-olds across the globe”, said Dr. Matthew Clary. ” About 25% of people with diabetes have a form of diabetic retinopathy, with 5% of them having severe disease. The only way to prevent blindness or vision loss is by detecting and treating it early.”
Diabetic retinopathy needs special treatment, especially in its advanced stages. This helps patients minimize risks to their vision.
When screening identifies proliferative (stage 3) retinopathy or symptoms of diabetic maculopathy, it is vital to seek immediate treatment.
Proliferative retinopathy occurs due to the development of fragile blood vessels on the retina. The Eye Center treats this condition through laser surgery, which shrinks the abnormal blood vessels. Patients are treated early enough before the vessels start hemorrhaging.
Even during early bleeding, the treatment can still be administered. But as bleeding becomes severe, the doctors use a surgical procedure known as vitrectomy.
Generally, The Eye Center offers three types of treatments for advanced diabetic retinopathy.
The laser treatment involves shining a laser into the retina to shrink the blood vessels that grow at the back of the retina in proliferative diabetic retinopathy. This treatment also stabilizes maculopathy.
The eye injections are administered to patients with severe maculopathy that threatens their vision.
Eye surgery is for people who cannot undergo laser treatment because of advanced retinopathy. It helps to remove the scar or blood tissue from the eye.
The Eye Center helps patients to manage their diabetes, especially in the early stages of their diabetic retinopathy. This helps them prevent other vision problems from developing.
In advanced stages, when patients’ vision is at risk, the doctors at The Eye Center are there to help patients prevent their condition from worsening.
About The Eye Center
The Eye Center is the leading refractive practice in South Carolina, providing full service eye care and specializing in Refractive Surgery – Lasik, AST, PRK, PRELEX, as well as Corneal Transplant and Cataract Surgery.
Lasik surgery is performed to enhance your eyesight. To help with fast recovery and avoid surgery complications, you should follow the rules and instructions given to you after your surgery. But another thing to be mindful of is your diet after eye surgery.
Let’s look at the foods you can eat and avoid after LASIK surgery to help with your recovery.
Foods to Eat
Proteins: Foods rich in protein can benefit your eyes and the whole body. They rejuvenate body cells, blood vessels, and veins to improve recovery. The best protein foods to eat after your eye surgery include organic chicken, eggs, salmon, dairy products, seeds, and nuts.
Vitamins: Vitamin foods (vitamin C specifically) are great for eye health. They help to slow down eye aging, reduce any risks of developing eye cataracts, and speed up recovery. The best vitamin C fruits to consume are citrus fruits, green leafy vegetables, carrots, red bell peppers, milk, tomatoes, and berries.
Carbohydrates: Carbohydrate foods supply energy to the body and promote healing. Excellent foods to eat after surgery are whole wheat foods, quinoa, oats, buckwheat, and bananas.
Healthy Fats: Healthy fats are essential to healing as they aid the body in absorbing vitamins and other nutrients. Foods like sweet potatoes, whole eggs, avocado, nuts, and seeds are enriched with healthy fats.
Foods You Should Avoid
Sugar-Rich Foods: The first thing you should do after your eye surgery is to reduce your sugar consumption. High sugar foods can elevate your blood pressure. These include high-sugar fruits, honey, packed juices, candies, cakes, pastries, etc.
Deep Fried Foods: Fried foods accumulate a lot of unhealthy oils. When fried, the nutrients are killed, leaving only empty shells that are useless and unhealthy for the body.
High Sodium and Processed Foods: Salty foods also trigger high blood pressure and other health issues that can complicate your eye recovery. As much as possible, steer clear of pickles, canned foods, ultra-processed foods, and preserved foods like chips, burgers, pizza, etc.
Always eat nutritious food to ensure quick and complication-free eye recovery.
Laser eye surgery is a form of refractive surgery performed to correct hyperopia, astigmatism, and myopia. These are spectacle errors found in people with uncorrected or impaired vision.
By 2011, more than 11 million patients had undergone laser eye surgery in the U.S.; by 2009, over 28 million surgeries had been performed globally.
An ophthalmologist performs laser eye surgery using a microkeratome or laser to reshape the cornea and improve the patient’s visual acuity. Most patients who undergo the procedure receive a permanent alternative to wearing contact lenses or eyeglasses.
The procedure involves three main steps where:
This procedure has helped correct many patients’ far and near-sightedness, enabling them to see clearly (20/20) without wearing spectacles.
It is a quick and painless surgical procedure that takes about 10 to 20 minutes. A numbing drop is administered to lessen the pain. Vision recovery is often rapid, with patients reporting vision acuity within 24 hours.
Through a technique known as mono-vision, laser eye surgery can minimize the need for contact lenses in patients aged 40 and above who use bifocals.
Candidates for this type of surgery are those over 18 years with healthy eyes and adequate thickness in their cornea. Corneal disease, chronic dry eye, and other abnormalities can disqualify one from the surgery.
Dr. Clary explains how the Panoptix IOL Implant has benefited patients in the Midlands.
South Carolina, June 11, 2022 – Dr. Clary was the first cataract implant specialist to perform the Panoptix IOL implant procedure in a patient in the Midlands. Panoptix IOL technology has been a breakthrough treatment for patients with eye cataracts.
The Panoptix IOL drug was approved by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) in August 2019. Since then, it has been a success. Alcon, a parent company in Switzerland, has followed the success of this drug and found that many patients who’ve already had the cataract treatment would choose Panoptix IOL again.
“Panoptix IOL is one of the greatest medical miracles in the modern eye cataract surgery,” says Dr. Clary. “The once presumed risky procedure is now a standard procedure used to improve patients’ quality of life each year.”
Since its introduction, this lens implant procedure has shown great promise for eye cataract patients. Panoptix IOL gas managed to correct many people’s vision at all distances. Those who’ve benefited from the treatment have forgotten about corrective lenses except when carrying out detailed tasks like reading for longer periods. Dr. Clary has been at the forefront of performing this miracle.
Cataract surgery is now common, with more than two million lens and cataract implant procedures performed each year. Intraocular lenses have been used for over fifty years to restore people’s vision after removing their lenses.
Dr. Matthew Clary is a cataract treatment specialist in Columbia. SC. He is a board-certified ophthalmologist who currently works as the Chairman of Ophthalmology for Providence Hospital. He joined The Eye Center in 2008 and has performed over 12,000 cataract surgeries in the Midlands.
“With the Panoptix IOL technology, we’ve been able to give eye patients in Midlands a hope for better vision,” continued the doctor. “People can now walk glasses-free after a successful, pain-free surgery.”
About The Eye Center
The Eye Center is the leading refractive practice in South Carolina, providing full service eye care and specializing in Refractive Surgery – Lasik, AST, PRK, PRELEX, as well as Corneal Transplant and Cataract Surgery.
The Tecnis multifocal lens implant is a cataract surgery involving the removal of the eye’s natural lens. The lens is then replaced with a clearer artificial lens implant (IOL).
By ‘multifocal, it means that the implanted lens is designed to produce a clearer vision for both near and distant visions without the glasses. This is different from a monofocal IOL, which is designed for specific visions without a clear range of focus.
Tecnis multifocal IOL sets the patient free from using contact lenses.
It uses wavefront technology. The technology corrects visual distortion (optical aberrations) that may cause halos, glare, and low visual quality.
Tecnis is a diffractive lens that comes with concentric rings of distinct power. The rings provide vision at distance and near levels. The lenses are independent of the patient’s pupil size. It improves the reading vision even in low light conditions.
Tecnis multifocal lens implant offers quality vision at multiple distances. The enhanced vision for a specific near point is often personalized to the patient’s lifestyle. This allows them to focus on places they use their vision most.
The lenses correct presbyopia and astigmatism while reducing one’s dependence on contact lenses.
Beneficiaries of this procedure are patients with healthy eyes who want to stop using glasses at all distances. It cannot work well if the eye has severe glaucoma or macular disease (macular scar or hole, macular pucker, or macular degeneration). Also, Tecnis multifocal lens implant cannot correct astigmatism, especially if it’s significant.
A multifocal lens implant works best when implanted in both eyes. If performed in one eye, the patient may need glasses to accomplish some tasks. This procedure aims to provide independence from contact lenses at every distance.
The good thing about the Tecnis multifocal lens is the lack of risk during surgery. After surgery, a patient may experience some halos and glare with night driving. There’ll also be slight ghosting or blurring or a waxy vision for a short period.
