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Eye Floaters
August 15, 2007
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Only two doctors in the United States specialize in treating a condition known as eye floaters.
Ophthalmologist Scott Geller explains that eye-floaters are just what they sound
like, they appear as tiny specks or clouds that appear to be floating around in
your field of vision. “But for some patients they can be very dense and actually
obscure vision.”
Dr. Geller happens to be one of only two surgeons in the nation who perform a laser
procedure to treat eye-floaters. He says they aren’t dangerous, but they can be
annoying, and you don’t have to live with them. “So most ophthalmologists have this
mind set that they go away. Well, that might be the case for many patients, but
there are a large number of people out there for whom they don’t go away and are
severely disabled by this condition.”
The eye-floaters can severely impair peoples vision while driving, reading, or working-and
Dr. Geller wants to make sure patients know the benefits of treating the condition
far outweigh the risks. “Laser on the other hand, at least in my hands, has always
been an extremely low complication rate. The risks of laser are almost less than
one half of 1%.”
Dr. Geller says he’s received letters from patients
all over the world expressing
their gratitude for their remarkable results.
Doctors say the laser procedure offers the advantage of significantly lowering a
patient’s risk of bleeding.
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