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Anterior Ocular Segment - A name for the parts of the eye that are in front of the lens, namely, the cornea, anterior chamber, iris and ciliary body.

Antimetropia - A condition where one eye is nearsighted and the other one farsighted.

Aphakia - (ah-FAY-kee-uh) The condition of having no crystalline lens in the eye, as happens when it's been removed because of cataracts.

Aphakic Spectacles - Very thick and heavy glasses that in past years were the standard remedy after a cataract operation. They gave distorted peripheral vision. Modern ophthalmologists can instead implant an intraocular lens (IOL).

Refractive Lens Exchange (RLE) - Also known as Clear Lens Exchange (CLE). A surgery which removes the crystalline lens from the eye and replaces it with an intraocular lens (IOL). This is essentially the same surgery that is performed for cataracts, where the cloudy lens is replaced with a clear one, except that it’s done to correct the refractive error of myopia or hyperopia, rather than to remove cataracts.

DR WILLIAM A. BOOTHE - LASIK DALLAS: Keratotomy is a surgical incision (cut) of the cornea.

Keratitis is the inflammation of the cornea.

Kerato is the prefix indicating relationship to the cornea.
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Dr Boothe Lasik Surgeon A pioneer in the field of refractive surgery, Dr. William Boothe was one of the first cornea specialists to be trained in vision correction techniques during his Fellowship. In addition, he was the first cornea-trained surgeon in the Dallas area to use an FDA-approved Excimer laser for refractive surgery.
Dr. Boothe was among the first three surgeons in the Dallas area (and one of the first in the country) to use a microkeratome, the instrument that creates the flap during the initial part of ALK and LASIK surgery. The delicate procedure of precisely lifting the flap is critical to overall success of the surgery.

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DR WILLIAM A. BOOTHE: conjunctiva - The delicate mucous membrane that lines the eyelids and covers the white surface of the eye. The conjunctiva joins the eyeball at the edge of the cornea (limbus).
convex lens - A lens with a bulging surface like the outer surface of a ball. Convex lenses are +(plus) power lenses and are used to correct hyperopia or far sightedness and for reading glasses as needed in presbyopia.

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Basement Membrane - A microscopically thin layer of tissue below the epithelial cells (surface cells) of the cornea, connecting those cells to the stroma, which is the middle layer of cells in the cornea.

Best Corrected Visual Acuity - A measurement of your best vision, as corrected by your glasses or contact lenses.

Bifocals - The type of glasses we usually call “reading glasses”, where most of the lens corrects your distance vision, and a small area at the lower edge of the lens corrects your close-up vision. They’re used by people with presbyopia. There are also trifocals.

argon laser - Laser light produced from argon gas.
The main wavelengths are 488.0 nm blue and 514.5 nm pea green light, but nine separate wavelengths in the blue-green visible light spectrum are produced.

LASIK - Laser in Situ Keratomileusis.
A surgical operation where a flap of surface cornea is cut and rolled aside in order that a laser beam can remove internal tissue from the inside (stroma or body) of the cornea. Following removal of tissue the surface layer is reattached. The amount and shape of the removed tissue is determined by the preoperative refractive error i.e. myopia, hyperopia or astigmatism.

DR WILLIAM A. BOOTHE - EYE CENTER: Automated Lamellar Keratoplasty (ALK) - A refractive eye surgery that treats myopia. The surgeon uses a microkeratome to cut a very thin shaving or flap from the corneal surface. Then a tiny piece even thinner is removed from the underlying tissue, to flatten the cornea a little, and the flap is replaced. It heals up without any need of stitches.

B scan - An ultrasonic procedure that checks for abnormalities in the eye, and locates foreign bodies within it.
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