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| Eye
Health Vision Centers Opens Newest Office
in Fall River, MA |
Stephen
F. Sullivan, MD of Eye Health Vision Centers
today announced the opening of the practice’s
fifth and newest office in at the Flint Village
Plaza located at 933 Pleasant Street in the
City of Fall River. Eye Health is located directly
in between Hollywood Video and Rite Aid Pharmacy. |
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| First
Dry Eye Clinic in Area |
| In response to an increasing
percentage of our population suffering from
dry eye due to disease, medications, aging,
hormonal and environmental related causes,
Eye Health Vision Centers has created the
area’s first “Dry Eye Clinic”
to address this problem and appropriately
integrate the new medications forthcoming,
such as RESTASIS, into the treatment regimen. |
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| New
Hope for Patients with Macular Degeneration |
Claudio
A. Ferreira, M.D. of Eye Health Vision Center
in Dartmouth has recently begun performing
Transpupillary Thermotherapy (TTT), a new
thermal infrared laser treatment method for
macular degeneration; the new TTT infrared
laser was recently acquired by Eye Health
Vision Centers Laser Facility in Dartmouth. |
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| Eye
Health's Laser Center Opens for Laser Vision
Correction |
We
no longer have to inconvenience our patients
from Southeastern Massachusetts and Rhode
Island to travel to Boston for their LASIK
surgery. Everything is done right here in
Dartmouth: seminar, pre-op analysis, laser
surgery, and post-op follow-up. |
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| Stem
Cell Transplants Offer New Hope in Some Cases
of Blindness (PDF - 5KB) |
A
little-known operation restores hope for people
who lose sight from chemical or heat burns of
the eye or certain rare diseases. The procedure,
50 to 100 percent effective in healing corneal
damage, is used worldwide, including Iran, where
it helps restore sight for victims of Iraqi
mustard gas attacks. |
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| New
SLT Laser Revolutionizes Treatment of Glaucoma |
Dr.
Stephen Sullivan announced this week that
Selective Laser Trabeculoplasty, the latest
advancement in the treatment of chronic open
angle glaucoma, is now available at their
Dartmouth office. SLT (Selective Laser Trabeculoplasty)
represents perhaps the single most dramatic
advancement in glaucoma treatment in the past
25 years. |

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