Dear Dr. Petelin:
I want to thank you for your excellent care and treatment of my eyes. I was so fortunate to have the restor lens implants, and you were instrumental in providing these. Most recently you provided the laser surgery which you had to fit me into your very busy schedule. Special thanks to you and your staff. My eyesight is doing well
Sincerly,
Florence Maki
Eben Juntion, MI
Scottsdale Center for Sight was one of the first practices in the Valley to offer its patients the attraction of LASIK without the use of a blade. Intralase has proved to be one of the most significant advances in the LASIK procedure in its fifteen year history.
The advantage of Intralase is simple: It allows the most important step in the LASIK procedure, the creation of the LASIK flap, to be performed with a level of control, accuracy, and safety that is not possible with conventional bladed LASIK. If you understand the LASIK procedure, it is easy to understand why Intralase is such a significant advance.
Dr Petelin of Scottsdale Center for Sight, has extensive experience with Intralase. During your consultation with him, you will learn in greater detail the advantages it affords to those patients well suited to the LASIK procedure. If you have been waiting for that one “advance” that makes surgery a possibility, with Intralase, LASIK has never looked better.
LASIK stands for Laser-Assisted In Situ Keratomileusis and is a procedure that permanently changes the shape of the cornea, the clear covering of the front of the eye, using an excimer laser. A mechanical microkeratome (a blade device) or a laser keratome (a laser device) is used to cut a flap in the cornea. A hinge is left at one end of this flap. The flap is folded back revealing the stroma, the middlesection of the cornea. Pulses from a computer-controlled laser vaporize a portion of the stroma and the flap is replaced.
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Scottsdale Center for Sight
14275 North 87th Street, Suite 112
Scottsdale, AZ 85260
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Center for Sight was one of the first practices in the Valley to offer its patients the attraction of LASIK without the use of a blade. Intralase has proved to be one of the most significant advances in the LASIK procedure in its fifteen year history. The advantage of Intralase is simple: It allows the most important step in the LASIK procedure, the creation of the LASIK flap, to be performed with a level of control, accuracy, and safety that is not possible with conventional bladed LASIK. If you understand the LASIK procedure, it is easy to understand why Intralase is such a significant advance.
Dr Petelin has extensive experience with Intralase. During your consultation with him, you will learn in Greater detail the advantages it affords to those patients well suited to the LASIK procedure. If you have been waiting for that one “advance” that makes surgery a possibility, with Intralase, LASIK has never looked better.
Dr Petelin founded Center for Sight in 2002 to fill a Valley need for a leading eye center under one roof and dedicated only to the highest standards of patient care and technology in the field.
As a surgeon, Dr. Petelin is uniquely qualified. He received his medical degree from the University of Arizona and completed his Ophthalmology training at one of the nation’s most prestigious programs: Emory University. Even more importantly, Dr. Petelin is one of only a handful of vision correction specialists trained specifically in Cornea and Refractive surgery. He received this training in Kansas City.
Locally, Dr. Petelin is recognized by his peers for providing top level surgical eye care. He lectures frequently on topics pertaining to new technology and consults with valley doctors on difficult and challenging cases. His practice has been a leader not only in the Valley but nationwide over the past five years. During that time, Center for Sight has earned a reputation for progressive surgical techniques and became a national leader in “flapless” surgical laser vision correction. This was quickly followed by becoming the second Valley practice to incorporate Intralase and the first in Scottsdale.
Scottsdale Center for Sight
14275 North 87th Street, Suite 112
Scottsdale, AZ 85260
Visit Dr. Petelins Website
Telephone: 480-483-8882
Fax: 480-905-7274
E-mail: info@drpetelin.com
What is LASIK?
The cornea is a part of the eye that helps focus light to create an image on the retina. It works in much the same way that the lens of a camera focuses light to create an image on film. The bending and focusing of light is also known as refraction. Usually the shape of the cornea and the eye are not perfect and the image on the retina is out-of-focus (blurred) or distorted. These imperfections in the focusing power of the eye are called refractive errors. There are three primary types of refractive errors: myopia, hyperopia and astigmatism. Persons with myopia, or nearsightedness, have more difficulty seeing distant objects as clearly as near objects. Persons with hyperopia, or farsightedness, have more difficulty seeing near objects as clearly as distant objects. Astigmatism is a distortion of the image on the retina caused by irregularities in the cornea or lens of the eye. Combinations of myopia and astigmatism or hyperopia and astigmatism are common. Glasses or contact lenses are designed to compensate for the eye’s imperfections. Surgical procedures aimed at improving the focusing power of the eye are called refractive surgery. In LASIK surgery, precise and controlled removal of corneal tissue by a special laser reshapes the cornea changing its focusing power.
Other types of refractive surgery
Radial Keratotomy or RK and Photorefractive Keratectomy or PRK are other refractive surgeries used to reshape the cornea. In RK, a very sharp knife is used to cut slits in the cornea changing its shape. PRK was the first surgical procedure developed to reshape the cornea, by sculpting, using a laser. Later, LASIK was developed. The same type of laser is used for LASIK and PRK. Often the exact same laser is used for the two types of surgery. The major difference between the two surgeries is the way that the stroma, the middle layer of the cornea, is exposed before it is vaporized with the laser. In PRK, the top layer of the cornea, called the epithelium, is scraped away to expose the stromal layer underneath. In LASIK, a flap is cut in the stromal layer and the flap is folded back.
Another type of refractive surgery is thermokeratoplasty in which heat is used to reshape the cornea. The source of the heat can be a laser, but it is a different kind of laser than is used for LASIK and PRK. Other refractive devices include corneal ring segments that are inserted into the stroma and special contact lenses that temporarily reshape the cornea (orthokeratology).
Scottsdale Center for Sight
14275 North 87th Street, Suite 112
Scottsdale, AZ 85260
Telephone: 480-483-8882
Fax: 480-905-7274
E-mail: info@drpetelin.com
Visit Dr. Petelins Website