One of them, biosensory keratotomy, involves using biosensory feedback from corneas and physician judgment on when to stop cutting into the cornea.
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Zhirinovsky had 8 percent along with Svatislav Fyodorov, an eye surgeon who pioneered the radial keratotomy technique of surgically correcting near-sightedness.
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About 250, 000 people a year get radial keratotomy, in which a doctor makes several incisions in the cornea to flatten it.
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The need is even greater, he adds, for someone who has had vision-correcting radial keratotomy surgery, which weakens the cornea.
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KeraVision Inc . of Fremont, California, which makes the rings, said the cost of the rings would be comparable to radial keratotomy.
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He wrote a book, " Radial Keratotomy Principle & Practice ", in 1990 which is a reference text on the subject.
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The new technology is an alternative to radial keratotomy, a technique that involves using a scalpel to make a series of incisions around the cornea.
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Still, the laser procedure " is a lot less intimidating " than radial keratotomy, noted Mandel, the East Bay eye doctor.
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The Atlanta Eye Surgery Group is running newspaper ads that encourage consumers to " See the difference radial keratotomy can make in your life !"
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So in 1992 he decided to spend $ 2, 000 on a controversial, but increasingly popular procedure known as radial keratotomy to correct his myopia.
