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"Hi - it's Bill Kelly and I am excited to introduce you to Dr. Michael Furlong, the bay area expert in vision correction procedures and the surgeon who performed my procedure.

If you could change your life with a phone call, wouldn't you? I've never been blessed with what you'd call "good eyes". In fact, I've always pretty much been "blind as a bat". Had to wear glasses for everything.

I DID wear contacts for a while, but allergies made that a "less than pleasant" experience. Bottom line, I figured I had to learn to live with it?until I met Dr. Furlong. To make a long story short, after a few consultations and a couple of tests, I can now see through walls. No. Not really. But I CAN read, drive, watch TV, use the computer and pretty much anything else I wanna do without glasses?and that's good enough for me.

Now a direct word to the chickens - to the squeamish: I'm one of you. I get so freaked out about anybody coming near my eyes it took my first contact lens guy 90 minutes to get my first lens in. If I can do it, YOU can do it. And you could not pick somebody better than Dr. Furlong to help you through this. He's the man to help you change your life. Seriously. Make the call."

Hear more about Billy Kelly's procedure

All surgeons offer LASIK, but not all provide Custom Wavefront LASIK. It's also possible that your vision problem may require a different correction procedure like mine did. Make sure your surgeon has the experience to offer a treatment plan that is exactly right for you. Find out by asking the right questions.

LASIK Custom LASIK PRK (photo-refractive keratectomy) Custom PRK CK (conductive keratoplasty) RLE (refractive lens exchange) Cataracts

And he will be personally involved in planning and executing your complete treatment program, including post-op care. He will also work closely with your optometrist to provide the most convenient schedule and care possible.

Thoroughly check out the surgeon who will operate on your eyes.

Choose a specialist in vision correction procedures. The most highly trained LASIK surgeons are corneal specialists with additional LASIK training. Dr. Furlong has performed over 20,000 procedures and has a full year of post-graduate LASIK training.

Even the best surgeon needs state-of-the-art technology to produce state-of-the-art results. We're talking about the latest wavefront lasers, corneal topographers, aberrometers, radio frequency keratoplasty devices and implantable lenses - not common terms to most of us, but absolute essentials for a surgeon offering complete vision care services.