Down-Up Lasik is the newest type of Lasik procedure. Dr. Dello Russo creates a flap in a very natural manner. He raises the flap from down upwards, treats the eye with the laser, and puts the layer back. Patient keeps the layer in its actual natural position when blinking. In addition, Dr. Dello Russo makes one eye for reading, and another one for distance when treating farsightedness, and such patients have not to wear eyeglasses again.

After five years of testing, the FDA approved a new laser so people could throw away the glasses. The laser remodels the cornea at the front of eye to focus light properly on the retina. There is almost no pain and the results can be dramatic. Dr. Dello Russo has over 20 years’ experience and constant success in improving the vision and quality of life of many people with eye disorders including nearsightedness, farsightedness, cataracts, astigmatism, and glaucoma.

Dr. Joseph Dello Russo has successfully done thousands of laser vision correction procedures including Cataract surgery, Custom Lasik, and PRK. His New Jersey Eye Center offers the latest in laser eye surgery technologies and equipment including LADARVision® Custom Cornea System and Intralase FS Laser. Dr. Dello Russo will help you choose the option that is best for your individual vision problem, whether you are suffering from myopia, hyperopia, astigmatism or cataracts.

Dr. Dello Russo performs Lasik surgery in two steps. The first step is the flap creation. The doctor uses his own technique known as Down-Up. He puts a suction ring on the eye and measures its pressure. Then he uses a special surgical blade called microkeratome to create a down-up corneal flap. The second step is the remodelling of the corneal epithelium. Dr. Dello Russo lifts up patient’s flap and then utilizes a computer-controlled laser to reshape the cornea. After the corneal surface is treated, the doctor puts the flap back down in proper position.

There are two differences between the way Dr. Dello Russo does Lasik and the way other doctors perform the procedure. He calls his procedure Down-Up Flying Spot Lasik. Down-Up technique is safer and more comfortable as the doctor leaves a small hinge at the top of the cornea (rather than on the side, as many other doctors do) while creating a flap. Dr. Dello Russo also uses Flying Spot laser, that literary flies over the cornea of the eye reshaping it. The end result is a very smooth surface which is very desirable for a good vision.

Dr Dello Russo is one of the most premier lasik surgeons in America. He has been featured on many news channels such as CBS, NBC and more. Click this video to see Dr Dello Russo featured on CBS News.

Trying to explain this new device to the public proved to be difficult. He sought a way of giving it a more simple, easy-to-understand nickname. Lasers were just coming into use in the 60′s and 70′s and this five letter word was easy for Charlie to allow the public to latch onto and associate with his gadget and so even doctors after a while discontinued trying to explain that they were not using a laser but a phacoemulsifier. So a kind of verbal truce existed between the doctors and the public..

I know all of this because I was at the time an associate of charlie’s training courses and sat back and saw this word contest taking place in my office as well as nationwide. Guess what is now happening? A laser is actually being developed so that it can be used during a cataract surgery. In the very near future doctors will truly be able to tell their patients that indeed they used a laser during surgery. There are three laser companies at present who work on this product but don’t expect a general availability until early 2012, if not later.

Prior to the Intralase, LASIK was performed using a bladed instrument. Dr. Dello Russo observed the first prototype a new laser method in 2000 and immediately placed the order for the first two commercially available lasers to become available which were delivered to his office in Feb 2001. “I have not touched a blade ever since.”

The laser did not attract other lasik surgeons for about two years since it was considered a very expensive way of making a flap, in place of a $ 35 blade. Now a  bulk of lasik  surgeons consider it the “standard of care” for safer and more precise lasik, says Dr. Dello Russo, in his opinion. The latest model is another remarkable advance by this remarkable company – Abbott Medical Optics (AMO).