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Eye procedure less invasive than laser surgery.(St. Louis Post-Dispatch)
Aging baby boomers who would rather reach for their wallets than fumble for those pesky reading glasses are the target market for a new procedure that uses radiofrequency energy instead of a laser to reshape the cornea.
The process, Conductive Keratoplasty, or CK, is less invasive than laser surgery, which usually involves a corneal incision, tissue removal and, in a small number of cases, can lead to complications.
With CK, the eye is not cut and no tissue is removed. Instead, a surgeon inserts a hair-size, hand-held radio wave probe into dots traced on the cornea in rinse-away ink. Heat generated by radio waves emitted from the probe's tip causes a ...
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