CustomVue MonoVision From Park Avenue Laser
Setting their sights
A new laser eye surgery boasts results 25 times more precise than previous procedures. (Getty) Laser surgery may eliminate bifocal need
By Cait Pluto
Special to amNewYork The allure of life without glasses or contacts has long attracted patients to laser vision correction surgery. While the procedure has been performed on nearsighted and farsighted patients for years, bifocal wearers were left at a loss.
Now that’s not the case. This month, Dr. Emil William Chynn of Park Avenue Laser Vision will be the first physician in New York City to perform CustomVue MonoVision surgery, the procedure that makes precise dual nearsighted and farsighted correction possible.
Chynn is inviting the public to watch the procedure at his office at 5 p.m., April 17, at 102 E. 25th St. Gordan Kelly, a 49-year old hedge-fund analyst, will be Park Avenue Laser Vision’s first CustomVue MonoVisio patient. “I guess when you’re 49, you’re going to have to get used to what you really look like,” Kelly said.
The procedure will take a personalized fingerprint of the eye using a machine called a WaveScan. Light enters the eye and when it bounces back into the WaveScan, it is interpreted. “Think of a circle with 240 pinholes,” said Alan Peck, business development manager at Advanced Medical Optics, which produces the equipment used in the procedure.
“The WaveScan interprets how light comes out of the holes.” In the past, eye abnormalities were simply measured and entered in the laser’s computer. The custom portion of the new procedure makes the results 25 times more precise.
“I can treat each part of your eye with the exact prescription it needs,” Chynn said.
