WESTON, FLA. – In just 100 minutes on April 9, the lives of 100 people in cities and towns across the country will be changed forever as their failing eyesight goes from murky to crystal clarity at all distances with crystalens® cataract-lens implants ... free of lens charge.  

     

Dr. Marc Emory Bosem, medical director of the Correct Vision Laser Institute in Weston and Pembroke Pines, Fla.,  will be among a select group of ophthalmologists nationwide to participate in this unique program – Changing 100 Lives in 100 Minutes – which not only will dramatically improve patients’ eyesight, but also will mean many of them may never need eyeglasses again.

     

Bausch & Lomb, which manufactures the innovative crystalens intraocular lens for cataracts, will donate 100 pairs of these lenses to cataract patients not covered by private insurance or Medicare. Then, from coast to coast, 100 participating ophthalmologists ... including Bosem ... will perform pro bono implantation surgeries simultaneously during the next hour and 40 minutes.

     

This national effort will begin promptly at 7:30 a.m. Eastern daylight time with the implantation of the 100,000th crystalens, which uses eye muscles to focus in much the same way as the eye’s natural lens.Moreover, while other intraocular lenses are limited to correcting vision at far distances, only crystalens provides clear vision at all distances ... near, intermediate and far.  

     

The 100,000th crystalens surgery will be performed by Dr. James P. Gills, founder of St. Luke’s Cataract & Laser Institute in Tarpon Springs, Fla.  

     

Bosem graduated from the University of Miami School of Medicine with honors in research.  His ophthalmology residency was performed at the University of Texas Health Science Center, and he completed a research fellowship at the University of California, San Diego. 

     

Certified by the American Board of Ophthalmology, Bosem has performed thousands of vision- corrective procedures since 1992, specializing in LASEK/PRK, LASIK, ALK, AK, RK and crystalens surgery.  In addition, he has written numerous articles on glaucoma, cataract and laser vision-correction surgery and conducted research into the effects of laser on the cornea and the treatment of glaucoma. 

     

Correct Vision’s two locations are Mercantile Bank Building, One SW 129th Ave., Suite 209, Pembroke Pines; and Weston Regional Health Park, 2300 N. Commerce Pkwy., Suite 201, Weston.

     

The crystalens design is based on the human eye and uses the eye muscle to focus on objects at all distances.  It is the only such intraocular lens approved by the FDA and is the only lens to use the eye’s natural focusing ability.  Few crystalens patients have experienced problems with night vision, halos or glare.

    

 “Typically, crystalens lenses are available only as an elective upgrade to conventional lenses paid for by government programs or private insurance,” says Bosem.  “The crystalens has been an extraordinary success, and we wanted to help share this wonderful technology with people who usually couldn’t afford it.”

 

Correctvision Laser Institute is a leading comprehensive vision correction and eye care provider in S. Florida. Correctvision was founded by Dr. Bosem in 1997. For more information on Dr. Bosem or Correctvision visit www.correctvision.com

 

     Bausch & Lomb is a multi-billion-dollar eye-health company headquartered in Rochester, N.Y., where it was founded in 1853.  It employs 13,000 people worldwide and distributes products in more than 100 countries.  The company’s primary product categories are contact lenses, lens care, pharmaceuticals, as well as products for cataract, vitreoretinal and refractive surgeries.

     For more details about the crystalens Changing 100 Lives in 100 Minutes program or Bausch & Lomb by visiting www.bausch.com.

 

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