Dr. Andrew Caster – Los Angeles Lasik Surgeon

Dr. Caster is one of the best los angeles lasik surgeons.

Experience:

• Dr. Caster has performed more than 14,000 laser vision correction procedures.
• First ophthalmologist in the Los Angeles area to dedicate his practice exclusively to refractive surgery.
• Trained in radial keratotomy technique with Dr. Svyatoslav Fyodorov, the Russian inventor of radial keratotomy; Moscow, 1987
• First American physician to perform thermal keratoplasty (surgery for farsightedness, the forerunner of CK); Moscow, 1987
• Author of first academic paper discussing thermal keratoplasty for farsightedness: Caster, AI, The Russian Technique of Hyperopia Correction by Thermal Coagulation: A Preliminary Report, Journal of Refractive Surgery, May, 1988
• Developed computer nomogram to improve accuracy of refractive surgery; 1992
• Alumni Research Award, UCLA Jules Stein Eye Institute, 1994 for research into improving the accuracy of nearsightedness surgery (Multiple Regression Analysis of 1148 Radial Keratotomy Surgeries)

Dr. Andrew Caster graduated college from Harvard University with Phi Beta Kappa honors and then graduated from Harvard Medical School with honors. Dr. Caster performed his ophthalmology residency at the UCLA Jules Stein Eye Institute.

Board Certified by the American Board of Ophthalmology, Dr. Caster is a Clinical Instructor in Ophthalmology at the UCLA Jules Stein Eye Institute, and a staff physician at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center. Dr. Caster is one of only a few surgeons in the Los Angeles area who has been approved as a Certified Refractive Surgeon by the Council for Refractive Surgery Quality Assurance.

Dr. Caster was the first ophthalmologist in the Los Angeles area to dedicate his practice exclusively to refractive surgery. He is one of the most experienced and knowledgeable physicians in the United States in this field. Dr. Caster has personally performed over 14,000 procedures to correct nearsightedness, farsightedness, and astigmatism. A large number of our patients travel to us for laser vision correction from across the United States, as well as from Central and South America, Asia, and Europe.

In 1999, Dr. Caster was selected by Los Angeles Magazine as the “Best Laser Eye Surgeon in Los Angeles”. Dr. Caster has been selected by Visx as one of the “Top 50″ laser eye surgeons in the United States for four years in a row. He was selected by W Magazine as one of two top Lasik surgeons in America and was selected by the vote of other physicians as one of the “Best Doctors in America“.

Articles featuring Dr. Caster and his work with Lasik laser vision correction have appeared in many publications including Newsweek, The Wall Street Journal, and The Los Angeles Times. Dr. Caster recently appeared on the NBC Today show, interviewed by Katie Couric, in which he discussed the newest advances in vision correction. Dr. Caster performed all of the Lasik treatments for the first season of the Fox television show, The Swan. Dr. Caster has also been a featured guest on numerous television programs, including KCBS Channel 2 News (in which he performed laser vision correction on anchorman Kyle Kraska), Hard Copy (in which he performed laser vision correction on actor Lorenzo Lamas), and Fox Sports (in which he performed Lasik on Los Angeles Lakers assistant manager and former player Kurt Rambis).

Intraocular Contracts Remediation – Lasik Eye Surgery or Contact Lenses?

Intraocular implants have been used successfully for many years to the replace the eye’s crystalline lens when it turns cloudy, forming a cataract. To treat cataracts, as per los angeles lasik surgeon Dr. Caster, the natural crystalline lens inside the eye is removed and replaced with an artificial lens. When used to treat nearsightedness, the natural crystalline lens remains inside the eye, and intraocular implants are placed in front of the crystalline lens. When the crystalline lens remains and an additional lens is placed inside the eye, that lens is known as a “phakic” lens.
   
Implantable contact lenses can be thought of as placing glasses or contact lenses inside the eye, to stay there indefinitely. This gives the eye another focusing lens to provide high-quality vision like a normal eye. One style of implant is placed in front of the iris (the colored part of the eye) and is attached to the iris at each end. This is the Verisyse lens (outside of the United States it is known as the Artisan lens). Because the lens is in front of the iris, it can be seen in the eye under normal conditions. Another lens, known as the Visian lens, is placed behind the iris. The Visian lens is not visible inside the eye except with the use of a special microscope. Our preference is to use the Visian lens.Phakic IOLs are a more invasive treatment than laser vision correction. For this reason, implantable contact lenses are generally recommended for patients who are not good candidates for laser vision correction, either because the correction is too high or because the corneas are too thin. Certain physical characteristics of the eye may limit the ability to have phakic implants, including the size of the pupil (if too big, you could see around the lens, causing glare/halos), depth of the front portion of the eye, as well as the density of cells on the underside of the cornea.

The implantation of a phakic implant is done as an outpatient in an ambulatory surgery center, under local or topical (eyedrop) anesthesia. A small incision (a few millimeters) is made to allow the insertion of the implant. Most patients experience little to no discomfort during the actual procedure, which usually takes around 30 minutes. Remarkably, many patients report an instantaneous, dramatic improvement in their vision, similar to LASIK los angeles.

Implantable contact lenses can produce a very high quality of vision. If the lens is inappropriate for any reason (for example, if the vision in the eye changes), then the lens can be removed, per Beverly Hills Lasik Surgery Center Caster Vision. Currently, the implantable contact lenses are limited to the correction of nearsightedness, but in the future astigmatism and farsightedness will be treatable as well. Presbyopia, which is the need for reading glasses, is not treatable with phakic lenses, though monovision is certainly an option.

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