Athens doctor Region to carry out today the first new method for vision correction in Georgia

Local ophthalmologist Dr. Richard Blue is some history of medicine make today, because it was the first doctor, Georgia, to the new overlay Kamra, a device correction of near vision that recently the approval of the received install Federal Food and Drug Administration for use in the United States.

"This is the breakthrough in the correction of near vision that we seek," said Blue Monday comparison introduction of the then revolutionary Laser-Assisted in surgery for distance problems In Situ Keratomileusis (LASIK), is doing two decades.

Embedding Kamra, a much smaller as a contact lens disc, is designed to help some 114 million people in the face American presbyopia, a natural condition of aging, and the consequent need bifocals and reading glasses.

The loss in near vision is a universal phenomenon, the Blue to explain that people over the age, harden the lenses in the eyes and can not look sharp up close. Curing is usually visible when people reach their 40s, Blue said. First, he said, just read the man continued material and other items away from your eyes. If that does not work, spectacles or reading glasses are doubly necessary at home.

And here comes the Kamra inlay for Blue, Blue Laser Group has offices in Watkinsville and Gainesville.

"It's frustration with his reading glasses," he said.

In short, the Kamra inlay creates a look "pinhole effect", which allows a greater depth of field and thus restore near vision.

The deposit on the outer layer of the cornea is installed - the clear top coat to protect the eyes, he said blue. Embedding is 3.8 mm - about 5/32 inch in diameter - and is 5 micrometers thick, the thickness of a human hair.

In the process, the liner is attached only to the non-dominant eye, and blue. A laser - the same laser used in LASIK surgery - used to cut a small hole in the surface layer of the cornea, in the places the inlay.

The procedure is carried out in practice, the ophthalmologist and takes about five minutes, given with Valium as a mild sedative, Blue said. Patients who can process Kamra inlay undergo to work for blue back the next day.

None of the 500 people in the study to the FDA that the procedure has lost its vision, Blue said, and when a patient is not satisfied with the result, the process is completely reversible.

Over the past decade the development and application worldwide, have an estimated 20,000 Kamra inlay has been installed in 33 countries, according to the Bureau of blue.