Hoopes Vision

Products And Services

• LASIK

  Since the mid-1990s, laser vision correction procedures such as LASIK and PRK have helped millions of people to see the world more clearly, free from glasses and contact lenses. These procedures, also called laser refractive surgeries, use a heatless, computer-guided laser, called an excimer laser, to reshape the clear tissue at the front of the eye, called the cornea. Modern laser refractive surgery is a safe, comfortable, predictable procedure that can treat myopia (nearsightedness), hyperopia (farsightedness), astigmatism, and presbyopia. The laser refractive surgery specialists at Hoopes Vision have the combined experience of over 60,000 LASIK and PRK procedures to draw on. Our ongoing commitment is to provide Salt Lake City, Provo, and Ogden-area patients with only the newest, safest vision correction technology. Since our founding in the Salt Lake City area in 2000, Hoopes Vision has acquired five different excimer lasers for vision correction and three different lasers for bladeless flap creation, more than any other laser center in Utah.

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• PRK

  Photorefractive Keratectomy (PRK), like LASIK, is a form of laser refractive surgery. This means that a laser is used to reshape the cornea, correcting refractive errors such as myopia (nearsightedness), hyperopia (farsightedness), and astigmatism. PRK was the first laser refractive procedure performed in the United States, and the first to gain final FDA approval. While LASIK is more commonly performed than PRK today, PRK still represents a great option for patients who may not be ideal LASIK candidates due to thin or irregularly shaped corneas. Let’s examine the steps in PRK, and how they differ from LASIK. In LASIK, the first step is the creation of a thin flap of corneal tissue, either with a microkeratome blade in traditional LASIK, or with a femtosecond laser in the modern blade-free LASIK procedure. That flap is then carefully folded back so that the excimer laser can reshape the central layer of the cornea, known as the stroma, correcting the patient’s refractive error. The flap is then folded back into place. PRK is similar to LASIK in that an excimer laser is used to reshape the stroma. The primary difference between LASIK and PRK is that in PRK, there is no flap created.

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• KAMRA corneal inlay

  The KAMRA inlay treatment is an eye procedure that improves near vision and can free patients from the constant frustrations of reading glasses. The KAMRA inlay sits in the clear tissue at the front of the eye, known as the cornea. Smaller and thinner than a contact lens, the KAMRA inlay is a mini-ring with an opening — or pinhole — in the center. The inlay uses this pinhole to focus light coming into the eye. This improves near vision while maintaining distance vision. Please call (801)568-0200 for more information.

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