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WaveLight Refractive Suite:
A game changer
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Integrating new
technology into a practice
for optimal outcomes
2013
ASCRS•ASOA San Francisco Show Daily Supplement
This Show Daily supplement is sponsored by Alcon.
Offering a new generation
of patients an advanced
form of LASIK
A
s the economy begins to
improve,
consumers are
showing renewed inter-
est in refractive surgery
procedures. LASIK vol-
umes have increased, particularly in
the target population of Generation
Y or Millennials. These are patients
who value a "no nonsense" ap-
proach. They want facts, they want
speed, and they want results.
The WaveLight* Refractive Suite
(Alcon, Fort Worth, Texas) is particu-
larly well suited to address these
patients' requirements—it pairs the
fastest commercially available ex-
cimer
laser in the U.S., the EX500,
with the fastest commercially avail-
able femtosecond laser, the FS200.
EX500: Recovery times
The WaveLight EX500 Laser has a
repetition rate of 500 Hz, which
George O. Waring IV, MD
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doctors featured in this supplement
received compensation from Alcon for
their contributions to this supplement.
Copyright 2013 ASCRS Ophthalmic
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by George O. Waring IV, MD
Please refer to pages 7 and 8 for important safety information about the Alcon products described in this supplement.
"
The WaveLight
EX500 Laser delivers
not only a great
patient experience,
but a surgeon's
'wow factor.'
"
continued on page 2
The WaveLight EX500 Laser is part of an overall refractive suite that includes both the excimer and a femtosecond laser.
Source: George O. Waring, IV, MD
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