History of Vision Correction Surgery at The Eye Center |
Experience You Can Trust
To most of our patients vision correction surgery is one of the most desirable, life-enhancing procedure. LASIK is one of the recent advances of vision correction. With every passing year we spent hundreds of thousands of dollars on new equipment to maintain our state-of-the-art facilities so that we can provide the most advanced eye-care. This is a brief history of our experience in the field.
1989 |
Ayman Boutros, MD performs his first vision correction surgery (radial keratotomy) using the Russian technique of microsurgery. Our first office is opened, in Sterling, Virginia. |
1992 |
The introduction of the Genesis technique to
radial keratotomy, at The Eye Center.
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1994 |
Dr. Boutros is recognized as a leader in the field of vision correction and serves as instructor to teach other physicians the new types of surgery. He becomes one of the few surgeons in the country to be approved by some insurance companies to perform vision correction surgery on their patients. |
1995 |
Thousands of radial keratotomy procedures were performed on patients from all over the world. The Alexandria office is added to the practice to better serve the community. Dr. Boutros is certified to perform Laser vision correction. |
1996 |
Dr. Boutros is certified in LASIK surgery.
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1997 |
The Fairfax location is added to the practice.
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1998 |
The Leesburg office is opened. Now, with four
locations spreading across Northern Virginia, The Eye Center
becomes one of the largest vision correction practices in the
region. |
1999 |
Dr. Boutros becomes the medical director for LCA vision laser centers in the DC metropolitan area and becomes responsible for the supervision, training of hundreds of doctors. |
2000 |
The Eye Center opens its first laser facility and becomes one of the fastest growing laser centers in the region. Drs. Boutros and Reisner perform over 5,000 LASIK procedures. |
2003 |
The Eye Center uses new CustomVue by VISX. With CustomVue, a new standard in laser vision correction is established, providing a precise level of measurement and correction never before possible. Click here to read about CustomVue. |
2004 |
The Eye Center moves to new office in
Sterling. See our locations page for
details.
Over 15 years experience, and over 15,000 procedures performed. |
2005 |
Over 16 years experience, and over 25,000 procedures performed. |
2009 |
Over 20 years experience! Dr Boutros and The Eye Center celebrate their 20 year anniversary. |