| Alcon |
Alcon Laboratories, Inc. |
Alcon designs and manufactures surgical tools, implants, sutures, and corrective lenses for ophthalmic treatments. The company also has products to treat ear problems. |
Clear descriptions and photos of many common eye diseases. Product information sheets. Journal articles. Simple product descriptions. An excellent description of different types of incisions and the instruments used to make them. |
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| Bausch & Lomb |
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This site has patient/consumer-directed information on eyesite organized by age group. Eyesight development, common problems, and some treatments are displayed in a user-friendly format. |
First aid tips for eye injuries are given. The site does a good job describing eyesight development in infants and changes in eyesight throughout life. |
Not very technical product information and no advanced medical information is given. Product information is buried under layers of other content. |
| CIBA Vision |
CIBA Vision, a Novartis Company |
CIBA manufacures contact lenses and is more recently expanding into the surgical market with an implantable lens for correcting vision in patients with cataracts. |
Patient-directed descriptions of problems such as glaucoma and macular degeneration. Package inserts can be downloaded for any product. |
Only has text-based information. Diagrams of the eye would be nice. |
| Contex |
Contex, Inc. |
Contex makes contact lenses, including the Reverse Geometry OK Lens for orthokeratology (correcting vision by temporarily reshaping the eye's lens using rigid contact lenses.) |
Good information on orthokeratology. Technical information on lens fitting for ophthalmologists. |
Text-heavy. |
| CooperVision |
CooperCompanies, Inc. |
CooperVision makes toric lenses for correcting astigmatism. |
Full descriptions of the eye and how corrective lenses work. Useful glossary of terms. Page of ophthalmology links. |
No public access to the physician-directed information. |
| Euclid Systems |
Euclid Systems Corp. |
Euclid manufactures corneal topographers and contact lenses. |
Has some good information on imaging techniques and lathe processes. More technical information than some other sites. Has a clinical section with corneal maps that can be viewed for several cases. |
No background information on ophthalmology. |
| Keravision |
KeraVision, Inc. |
KeraVision produces INTACS, which can be surgically implanted to correct vision. This method competes with corrective laser surgery, with the distinction that the correction is reversible. |
An innovative product. Contains both physician and patient level information. |
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| ORBTEK |
Bausch & Lomb |
Orbtek is a diagnostic imaging company specialized in imaging the topography of the eye. |
Excellent technical descriptions. Graphics-rich site with images of a scanned eye and the maps produced by the scanning process. A glossary of technical terms is included to explain optics jargon. |
Only one product. Little space devoted to clinical/medical explanations of the product. |
| Surgical Net |
Surgical Net .com |
This is actually a distributor of surgical instruments. It has a full line of products used in ophthalmology procedures as well as sections of instruments for other surgical specialties. |
Full line of surgical instruments from various manufacturers. Photos and product catalogues. |
No specs or product information. No information on procedures and conditions. |
| VISX |
VISX, Inc. |
VISX exclusively develops and manufactures excimer laser systems. Over 1 million laser eye surgieries have been performed using VISX lasers. |
Has more detailed illustrations of the laser procedure than other sites. Journal articles are included in the physician section. |
Must wade through a lot of marketing material. |
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