Treat Your Eyes to Your Personal Best Vision with a New Customized Procedure

New Laser Vision Correction Procedure Can Improve Sight and Vision at Night
June 24, 2003

(NAPS) - If you wear glasses or contacts for nearsightedness or astigmatism but have been hesitant to move forward with laser vision correction, a new procedure called VISX CustomVue™ may be just what you have been waiting for. As shown in a recent clinical study, this new procedure has the potential to give you better vision and improve your vision at night.

Based on the clinical study, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved the CustomVue™ procedure as a safe and effective method of laser vision correction. One year after the procedure, 98 percent of study participants could see 20/20 or better, with 70 percent enjoying better than 20/20 vision. In addition, all study participants could see well enough to drive a car without glasses or contact lenses after the procedure.

Your vision is unique to you, much like a fingerprint. Until now, doctors were forced to practice a "one-size-fits-all" correction method. An off-the-shelf lens can correct your vision fairly well, but it does not correct it precisely because it is not tailored to the unique characteristics of your vision. Now, doctors can custom-tailor a correction for the unique "fingerprint" of your vision, with CustomVue.

The CustomVue procedure uses a precise measurement technology called WaveScan®. This allows doctors to measure your eyes 25 times more precisely than standard measurements for glasses and contact lenses. Doctors can now correct previously undetectable visual errors. In fact, in the clinical study, four times as many people were very satisfied with their night vision after the procedure as compared to their night vision before with glasses or contacts.

CustomVue also allows you to "test drive" your potential new vision with a trial lens. Once your WaveScan measurement is taken, the doctor can produce a trial lens under the laser. Your unique correction will be placed on the lens. Then, the lens will be fitted in a trial frame for your viewing. Your doctor can help you decide if this tool is beneficial for you during an initial consultation.

To find an eye doctor in your area that offers the CustomVue procedure, or to obtain more information about customized laser vision correction you can visit www.personalbestvision.com.

CHART:

For participants in the clinical study, after the CustomVue Procedure:

• One hundred percent of participants could legally drive a car without glasses or contacts
• Ninety-eight percent of participants saw 20/20 or better
• Seventy percent of participants saw better than 20/20
• Four times as many participants were very satisfied with their night vision after the procedure when compared to their vision before with glasses or contacts