EYE FLOATER TREATMENT CENTER We are the World's premier Eye Floater Specialty Center. Eye floaters can range from the merely annoying to the visually disabling.  Laser Treatment of eye floaters is our speciality.  The South Florida Eye Foundation / South Florida Eye Clinic has been treating eye floaters for 25 years.  Scott Geller MD, a Board Certified Ophthalmologist, pioneered and perfected laser treatment of eye floaters. He presented his first series of successful cases at the International Congress of Ophthalmology in Singapore, 1989.  Dr. Geller has the largest and longest series of patients treated with laser in the world. Dr. Geller has presented his data to other Ophthalmologists at conferences in the US, Europe, and Asia about treating eye floaters with laser.  Dr. Geller has treated many Medical Doctors, some of whose letters are on these pages EYE FLOATERS... are a result of changes in the Vitreous Body, the colloidal gel that occupies most of the hollow sphere of the eye. Aside from maintaining good nutrition, taking anti-oxidant vitamins, and following a healthy lifestyle, Ophthalmologists have no specific answer on how to prevent them.  But there is a proven treatment. Laser has helped thousands of people. It is a reasonable alternative to vitrectomy, an operation that is available if laser can't help. Normal Eye Anatomy Schematic of Eye with Floaters Posterior Vitreous Detachment Well Suspended Mid-Vitreous Floater Posterior Floater - Optic Nerve partially viewed on right simulated view of stationary mid vitreous clump Floaters in Vitreous Syneresis (liquifaction) Optos Camera view Asteroid Bodies Optos Laser Scan. 'Squiggles' are floaters Optos Scan, same eye, see how they moved A Small but Dense mid-vitreous opacity Lasered This video is of a patient with a Posterior Vitreous Detachment and a discrete but dense hyaline opacity dead center in the visual axis. 90% gone after the 1st day's laser. Cleaned up the residue on day 2. An article from March 2005 'Eye World News' a publication for Ophthalmologists. It features 3 MD's opinions on vitrectomy and laser as a floater treatment. A New Laser Eye Floater Video - Large Fibrillar Mass Moderately dense hyaloid membrane (quicktime) These videos show the surgeon's view of the procedure. Most ophthalmologists have never seen this live. And only a few have seen videos.  When eye surgeons have never seen or been taught the procedure, they can't offer it to their patients. Laser to hyaoid membrane (Windows or Real player) If you are under 35 years of age, please read this : Many patients under 35 ( especially post LASIK ) have floaters that are often untreatable by laser, usually because they are extremely close to the retina in a potential space called the 'pre-macular bursa'. And these patients had been told by their ophthalmologist that they could 'see the floater' and that the floater(s) was 'xx millimeters from the retina'. The unfortunate fact is that these floaters are impossible to see with the usual examination methods. The only way of examining the vitreous is with a Goldmann Examination Lens to check for floaters in the pre-macular bursa. These floaters are particularly annoying since they are usually trapped in the central 20 degrees of the visual field, and appear quite large due to their proximity to they retina. But their actual size is often no more than 100 microns ( 0.1mm ). Even if your ophthalmologist says he 'sees the floater', if he hasn't used the Goldmann Lens ( it is physically placed on the surface [cornea] of the eyeball ) he is usually wrong in patients under 35. We know this from our experience with hundreds of patients who've had the same story. What do I suggest? Before you go in for an exam, ask your ophthalmologist if he would agree to examine the vitreous with a Goldmann Lens. And ask him to call me (SG MD ) prior to the exam so I can explain exactly what he's looking for.........many ophthalmologists have never seen or paid attention to this type of micro ( but large to the patient ) floater. We urge you to take this step, as many patients have come from all over the World, only to be disappointed after a proper evaluation by me.... SG MD  june 2010   South Florida Eye Foundation 4755 Summerlin Road Fort Myers, Florida tel: 239-275-8222 <> 800- 431- 3066 ( free usa call )    SKYPE :  scottgellermd CLICK HERE to eMAIL us