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THE NEW YORK TIMES
August 8, 2000

Barrie Soloway, M.D., F.A.C.S., Surgical Director of Vista Alliance Eye Care Associates and Co-Director of the New York Eye and Ear Infirmary's Vision Correction Center, appeared on the front page of the Health and Fitness section of The New York Times on August 8, 2000.

The article by Abigail Zuger, entitled "Reading Glasses as Inevitable as Death and Taxes. Or Are They?" discussed the various theories behind the ever-controversial subject of why everyone eventually needs to wear reading glasses.  One theory is that the lens gets harder and decreases focusing ability with age due to the fact that the proteins in the lens are never replaced.  "The protein molecules in the aging lens slowly change in ways that make them bend light less...Thus, although it is more spherical, an elderly lens is less and less able to focus the light from nearby objects."

More recently Dr. Ronald Schachar formulated a theory that states "as the lens of the eye swells with age, the muscles and fibers surrounding it grow lax, and the system can no longer work effectively."  Dr. Schachar has developed a procedure called the Surgical Reversal of Presbyopia.  This surgery implants small curved pieces of plastic into the sclera (white part of the eye) and gives the muscles more room to flex and focus the lens.

"In March, the Food and Drug Administration approved preliminary trials of the operation at six sites in the United States, including the New York Eye and Ear Infirmary in Manhattan, where Dr. Barrie Soloway, co-medical director for vision correction, will head the studies". 

While the surgery is just beginning to take place in the United States there have been several hundred cases done successfully around the world. "A few hundred patients who have volunteered for the surgery over the last decade in Mexico, Canada, and Europe...report that the surgery does indeed seem to restore their ability to see up close."

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