Dr. Jeffrey D. Gold is a Board-Certified Ophthalmologist with over 35 years of experience in eye medicine and surgery with special expertise in laser technology. He graduated from Kenyon College with a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1968. After receiving his medical degree from the University of Tennessee, he completed his ophthalmology residency at Brooke Army Medical Center in San Antonio, Texas. He then practiced in the New Haven area for over 15 years as an Ophthalmologist, utilizing laser technology since the early 1980â?(TM)s. Then, he moved to Salt Lake City, UT in 1990 to perfect his Laser Vision Correction techniques and soon after FDA approval began performing laser vision correction in one of the first two laser centers in the United States to offer the procedure.
He returned to the New Haven area in 1997, helped establish the Yale Eye Laser Center and has been one of the leaders in the field in CT since then, performing over 10,000 Laser Vision Correction procedures and enhancing the lives of thousands of people.
He is one of the few Ophthalmologists to embrace the newest type of Laser Vision Correction - Epi-LASIK. It is the most advanced version of PRK which is the first procedure approved over 20 years ago by the FDA.
ADVANTAGES OF Epi-LASIK
? NO CUTTING: -> safer
? NO FLAP: -> better quality of vision
? NO FLAP: -> less complications short and long term
? LESS TISSUE REMOVED: -> safer
? NO CUT NERVES: -> less dry eye
DISADVANTAGES OF Epi-LASIK
? Slightly longer recovery period
? Slightly higher fee
Dr. Gold's practice is the only one in the area to promote PRK for MONOVISION. In this procedure, the dominant eye is untreated and the non-dominant eye is treated to create a modest amount of nearsightedness, thus making reading without glasses a reality. For those people who have required bifocals because both eyes require correction, the dominant eye is corrected fully for distance and the non-dominant eye is treated to be mildly nearsighted for reading. The PRK procedure has been FDA approved since the early 1990â?(TM)s and has removed the need for reading glasses for thousands of people world-wide.