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Affordable LASIK with 0% Financing
The Shepherd Eye Center makes every effort to make LASIK affordable. This practice offers 0% LASIK Financing for Las Vegas eye surgery patients.
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Your Choice for LASIK in Las Vegas! The doctors at Shepherd Eye Center offer the most advanced Blade-FREE LASIK eye surgery available.
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Facts
- In 1974, Shepherd Eye Center was the first in Nevada to use an intraocular lens (IOL) implant during cataract surgery.
- First in Nevada to perform phaecoemulsification cataract surgery.
- Shepherd Eye Center was the first practice in Nevada to perform sutureless cataract surgery.
- Shepherd Eye Center was the first practice in Nevada to offer “no shot, no stitch, no patch”, clear cornea cataract surgery.
- Shepherd Eye Center was the first Medicare certified Ambulatory Surgery Center (ASC) in Nevada to be devoted solely to eye surgery.
- The Shepherd Eye Surgicenter is the only AAAHC accredited out patient surgery center in the State of Nevada. This is the highest standard of certification available.
- Shepherd Eye Center performs more cataract surgery than any other practice in the State of Nevada.
- First practice in Nevada to use the toric intraocular lens (IOL) to correct astigmatism during cataract surgery.
- Shepherd Eye Center had the first FDA approved Excimer laser in the state of Neveda and the first to perform Laser Vision Correction.
- In 1997, Shepherd Eye Center built the first freestanding laser vision correction center, Focal Point Laser Center, in Las Vegas.
- Dr. John Shepherd of Shepherd Eye Center was the first American to use the Implantable Contact Lens (ICL) to correct nearsightedness.
- Shepherd Eye Center was the first practice in Nevada to perform Automated Lamellar Keratoplasty (ALK) refractive surgery.
- Dr. John Shepherd is the only practicing physician in Nevada to be listed in “The Best Doctors in America”.
- First Ophthalmology office with completely computerized patient medical records in Nevada.
- You will actually see a SEC surgeon prior to your surgery and during your last post-operative visit.
- SEC was one of only four original investigational sites for the NIDEK EC-5000 Laser.
- Dr. Shepherd was one of the first four original investigators for the STAAR Implantable Contact Lens, which corrects nearsightedness and farsightedness without laser treatment.
- SEC has certified, knowledgeable technicians to guide you through your decision to have Laser Vision Correction Surgery.
- SEC has a dedicated surgical staff that has assisted in thousands of LASIK procedures.
- The SEC surgeons have proctored (certified) many Las Vegas surgeons with their very first LASIK cases.
- In January 1996, the SEC surgeons were the first to perform Laser Vision Correction in the Las Vegas Valley.
- There is a SEC surgeon on call 24 hours a day, 7 days a week for your total eye care needs.
- The SEC surgeons have experience with microkeratomes (flap makers) since the early 1990s, when they were the first doctors in Las Vegas to perform Automated Lamellar Keratoplasty (ALK).
