St. Louis Eye Surgery Center Unveils Sci-Fi, Futuristic Eye Surgery Technique

The healthcare and medical industry is always advancing. Doctors, surgeons and biochemical engineers are always coming up with new and improved ways to perform different types of surgeries or working on new technologies that offer patients

Seattle, WA (prHWY.com) October 15, 2012 - The healthcare and medical industry is always advancing. Doctors, surgeons and biochemical engineers are always coming up with new and improved ways to perform different types of surgeries or working on new technologies that offer patients a new benefit. People who are interested in the advancement in the eye surgery industry will find a presentation at the local medical conference interesting.

Eye Care, an advanced St. Louis eye surgery center offered a presentation at the St. Louis medical conference. This presentation showed those in attendance exactly what the future of eye surgery may hold.

"One of the interesting things presented in the conference is the idea of having an eye surgery that works with a microchip to present information directly in a patient's line of vision", said conference attendee, Sandy Summers. "It sort of looks like something out of a sci-fi movie, but it would be really cool if it were able to be implemented."

The surgery is not yet available to the public and is in the early stages of development, but Eye Care wanted to show medical conference attendees what could be in store for the eye surgery industry. The half hour presentation showed attendees a slide show, virtual surgery and a video presentation on what this type of surgery could do for people.

"Our whole goal was to present a new eye surgery technique that people might be interested in having in the future", said Thom Green, founder of Eye Care. "The surgery isn't available to the public. In fact, it hasn't even entered human trials, but it is something to think about. It really is the wave of the future."

The small microchip would be surgically implanted behind the eye. The microchip would work with cellphone towers and Wi-Fi connections to provide people with a display of information right on the eye.

"Many technology companies are showing people a pair of glasses that can present people with information right on the glass", said Green. "This new surgery would present the information to people but not on a pair of glasses. It would be right on the eye. The ability to retrieve information would be right at these people's fingertips 24 hours a day, seven days a week."

The reaction of this type of surgery was fairly mixed. Some attendees thought it was too invasive and would cause privacy concerns. While others thought it was really cool and exciting.

"I think this is amazing", said conference attendee, Tammy. "It's like we're entering a sci-fi era and this is just the first step. The next thing you know cars will be flying!"

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