Jonathan M. Davidorf, MD, is a board-certified ophthalmologist and Director of the Davidorf Eye Group in Los Angeles, California, where he specializes in laser vision correction and cataract/lens implant surgery. He is an assistant clinical professor at UCLA’s Stein Eye Institute and has served as Director of Surgeon Training for Refractec, Inc., Chief Ophthalmologist for the Women’s World Cup, and Co-Director of Friends of Vision Foundation, a nonprofit organization that provides medical and surgical ophthalmologic care to underdeveloped nations. Dr. Davidorf was an Academic All-American at the University of California, Berkeley; he continued his training at the University of California, San Diego, UCLA, and The Ohio State University. He completed an international fellowship in refractive surgery in South America, where he researched and helped develop LASIK and other refractive surgery techniques, several years before their approval in the United States.
MD: University of California, San Diego School of Medicine
American Board of Ophthalmology
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For Pterygiums that are either growing, impacting one’s vision or level of comfort because a chronic irritation patients may consider to have the Pterygium removed. Like most of the procedures we perform pterygium surgery can...
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Patients sometimes come in with disfiguring vessel growth in the corners of their eye. This is very common in patients who spend a lot of time outdoors. The condition is known as a pterygium and...
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In terms of ways to try to prevent the chance of having vision loss from macular degeneration, adjustable lifestyle changes would be things like refraining from smoking, exercise, and eating a lot of leafy green...
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There are two types of macular degeneration. Dry and wet. The dry type can lead to bad vision loss, but the wet type is the one that can quickly do so. It is the wet...
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Some people who would like to see without glasses aren’t candidates for LASIK, but are still candidates for another corneal reshaping procedure called PRK or advanced surface ablation or LASEK. What this is, is it...
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After doing the laser resurfacing procedure, we place a clear contact lens over the eye. The surface cells that were removed during the procedure need to grow back over the ensuing few days. During that...
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LASIK is a surgical procedure, and as with any procedure, there are some risks. The good news is the chance of a serious problem with LASIK procedure is very, very low. Some of the common...
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Patients are prepped for the procedure. They’re given the opportunity to take a relaxing medicine like a Valium prior to proceeding. After about 20 minutes they are then brought into the laser room. Now patients...
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The precursor procedure to LASIK was a procedure called Keratomileusis. This was developed by Dr. Barraquer who’s from Colombia. What this process was, was a corneal reshaping procedure using a cryo lave, so it was...
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