Children's Eye care Services at Wang Vision Institute

Wang Vision Cataract and LASIK Center, Nashville, Tennessee

	Anna Post -- a 6-yo patient, became the world’s first patient to have a rare MMP gene mutation with corneal opacities and underwent a new laser eye procedure
	Little Margarette -- Mission of mercy changes girl's life Margarette's life in Haiti was such a constant struggle that as a 7-year-old she was facing severe malnutrition and had the appearance of a girl years younger. She also was losing her hair and temporarily losing her eyesight.
	The tiny, 5-year-old girl from Calcutta is called Kajal. She is blind because an angry stepmother poured acid in her eyes in a now distant spat in her homeland. She has come to this country music capital as have hundreds before her from across the United States and more than 50 other countries for a chance that her sight might be returned at The Wang Foundation for Sight Restoration.

• First in TN to introduce bladeless all-laser LASIK (over 25,000 procedures, 3,000 on doctors)
• First in the world to perform laser-assisted artificial cornea implantation
• Textbooks:
  • Corneal Topography in the Wavefront Era
  • Irregular Astigmatism
  • Keratoconus & Keratoectasia
  • Corneal Dystrophy and Degeneration
  • LASIK Vision Correction
• Wang Foundation for Sight Restoration, a 501c(3) charity, has helped patients from 40 states and 55 countries

Dr. Ming Wang, a Harvard & MIT graduate (MD, magna cum laude) and one of the few eye surgeons in the world today who holds a PhD degree in laser physics, has always been at the forefront of research and quality eyecare. Together with Drs. Boerman, Sztipanovits, and Kugler, offers state-of-the-art Children's Eyecare at Wang Vision Institute.

Children's Eye care Services at Wang Vision Institute include:

• Examinations for nearsightedness, farsightedness and astigmatism in children
• Contact lens fittings for children under age 18
• Management of amblyopia (lazy eye) and strabismus (crossed eyes)
• Co-management with pediatric eye surgeons
• Community vision screeningsin conjunction with Nashville Rotary Club, Lions Club, and Prevent Blindness, amongst others.

Wang Foundation for Sight Restoration: As a 501c(3) charity established by Dr. Ming Wang, the doctors involved with the Children's Eyecare Services at WVI offer charity sight restoration surgeries for children from around the world who have lost sight due to injury and infection and who cannot afford advanced eye reconstructive surgeries. Recent patients that we have helped include Kajal, a 5-year-old blind girl from India, and Margarette, a 10-year-old blind orphan from Haiti. To date, the foundation has helped patients from over 40 states in the US and 55 countries worldwide, with all sight restoration surgeries performed free of charge.

If you are interested in Children's eye care service at Wang Vision Institute, Nashville, Tennessee, please call us (615)321-8881 or email us.