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NRI doctor performs landmark surgery

NRI doctor performs landmark surgery - Sify.com

Dr Arun Gulani dreams of being able to create entirely artificial eyes for the blind. The NRI surgeon moved closer to his dream by performing a corneal transplant using an artificial cornea. He is the first and only doctor to do this in Florida. In fact, only a handful of doctors in the world are qualified to perform this procedure, seen as a landmark in eye-surgery.
"This is the first step of my dream coming true," says Dr Gulani, who is the director of cornea and refractive surgery at the UF Department of Ophthalmology in Jacksonville, Florida. This is indeed the stuff of science fiction, claim eye experts. Dr Gulani is also a renowned expert on Lasik laser eye surgery and the founder-director of the University of Florida Lasik Institute.