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Raving Fans

“Thank you so much for treating me so kindly. You made me feel so comfortable and the procedure went so smoothly. I couldn’t ask for a better doctor and team. I truly appreciate all that you have done for me.” —Tara Decock, Payment Service Representative, Winnipeg, Canada I-BriteTPatient

“I can tell your Flax Oil capsules are far and away MUCH BETTER than others I’ve tried. I can tell the difference in my skin!” —Joy Nuell, Los Angeles, California

“LOVE getting your newsletter. You are the ONLY doc I have or even know who puts out such a great newsletter! Nice to watch your girls grow. Loved your story about Bobsledder Steve Holcomb.” —Jeannie MacCabe, Attorney, Rolling Hills, CA

“I am now corrected to 20/25 in my right eye!!! This was the eye that previously could only be corrected to 20/70. My left eye is also 20/25!” —T. Taylor, Architect, Colorado Springs, Colorado HolcombC3-R,RIntacsRandCKPatient

“The procedures I had that day changed my life. I am seeing so much better now, especially at night. I am SO happy I decided to get the CK done in addition to the Holcomb C3-R. I didn’t realize how much I was missing!”

—Diane Smith, Company Vice President, Los Alamos, New Mexico Colorado CKandHolcombC3-RRPatient

“I just came back from my local follow up doctor. Just 9 months ago this was the same man who told me I needed a cornea transplant. Today he learned something. He was so shocked at the way my eyes are basi-cally normal again but how before I could barely see the big “E” and now I’m reading all the way down to the 5th line! He was so amazed he needed to bring in a cornea specialist to take a look as well and he was just as shocked! Here’s to no more squinting!! —Steve Mavilla, Service Representative, Hull, Massachusetts HolcombC3-R,RIntacsRandCKPatient

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S p r i n g 2 0 1 1

n Jordanna and Micaela Turn Five Years Old!

n Quick and Easy Improvement for Keratoconus Patients with Prior Intacs

n Great News if You Had a Corneal Transplant—How Laser Can Help Your Astigmatism

n Announcing New Patient Referral Contest!

n My Story: Lessons from Being a Parent

n Directly From An I-Brite® Patient

n Optimal Health in the News: Losing A Fitness Icon—Jack LaLanne

n Multifocal LASIK for Reading Vision Featured on Dr. Phil’s The Doctors

n Raving Fans

T O P I C S

Cornealius living a life of leisure while Dr. Brian out of town.

I just love Spring time! The flowers are blooming, the grass is tall, and there are so many eligible trees for

my delight! Dr. Brian is out of town for the moment. He THOUGHT he could keep me out of his office. Golly, he is in for a big surprise! I may not have opposable thumbs, but I can jimmy a door open any day of the week.

Enjoy your Spring Updates—there’s a lot of great stuff !

Happy Spring!

Cornealius

P.S. Reminder to read all about what I do here at BWVI—please check out www.boxerwachler.com/cornealius.

In The early dayS of placing Intacs for Keratoconus, surgeons inserted two Intacs segments in the cornea: one segment in the upper part and another Intacs in the lower part. years ago I made the discovery that about 85% of Keratoconus patients have some of their vision held back by the upper segment and can enjoy an improvement in vision once the upper segment is removed. Reason is: Intacs flatten—in Keratoconus the UPPER cornea is already too flat so an Intacs in the UPPER cornea makes the flattening worse. So if you had two Intacs placed many years ago, you could benefit from a quick and easy 10-minute procedure to remove the upper segment done in our office. We published about this technique in in Journal of Refractive Surgery. To find out more how this may help you see better even if you are wearing contact lenses, please call 310-860-1900.

Quick and Easy Improvement for Keratoconus Patients

with Prior Intacs

Jordanna and Micaela Turn Five Years Old!

IT juST SeemS lIKe laST mOnTh when Selina and I brought our fraternal twin daughters Micaela and Jordanna home from the hospital. On April 22 they turned five years old. They “graduate” from preschool in June and in the Fall they start Kindergarten. Micaela loves swim-ming and tennis while Jordanna loves to play basketball and soccer. I still take Monday mornings off from the practice to spend time with them. Typically we’ll go swim-ming or bike riding together. It is such a special time, but I know it won’t last foreverL. So many have you have passed on the advice, “Enjoy it while it lasts!” I am!! Selina, Micaela, Brian and Jordanna

T. Taylor

Stephen Mavilia

Diane Smith

“I have to say it’s an amazing difference in my life. It truly is. I would have to really squint to try and focus the lens. And in fact now I still squint when I try to read out of a behavior. And when I stop squinting it is absolutely clear.” —Brian Henderson, Colorado Springs, Colorado MultifocalLASIKpatientfromTheDoctorsTVshow

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Losing A Fitness Icon—Jack LaLanne

aS a KId I remember watching the old “Jack LaLanne Show” on TV. He and his beautiful assistant would jump, bounce, stretch, squat, and do just about anything imaginable with the human body. Few appreciate how far ahead of

his time Jack LaLanne was. Almost five years ago I read a wonderful interview with this legend and saved it in my Newsletter file. After hearing of Jack’s unfortunate death, I read the article and was astonished by how much he contributed to our current appreciation of health from exercise to eating right. His story is almost surreal to read: how he was a junk-food addicted teen-ager before his transformation; how he opened the nation’s first modern health studio in 1936 in Northern California; how the medical establishment thought he was ‘nuts’ as doctors in those days believed weight lifting caused heart attacks; how he invented the ‘jumping jack’, the first leg extension machine and pul-ley machines, and the list goes on and on. He is fascinating—so much so that I put this exclusive interview on a special webpage so you can read it: www.boxerwachler.com/jumpingjack. Enjoy!

earlIer yOu heard about how Micaela and Jordanna are growing up. Being a parent is the most important, yet

hardest job in the world. Parenting has evolved over the years. From educators and parenting experts I under-

stand that often children now are over-scheduled by their parents, which deprives them from valuable “free play”

with their friends. I remember growing up with plenty of time for free play

with my friends—we would make up our own games and let our imagina-

tions run free. We also learned responsibility and if there was a problem we

had to figure out how to solve it ourselves, especially interpersonal conflicts.

Back then, there weren’t many “helicopter” parents who hover and direct children with a barrage of “do’s” and

“don’ts”. Experts found that depriving kids of “free play” robs them of creative development and the ability to

think for themselves. Children now are over scheduled after school nearly every day with piano lessons, dance

lessons, tennis lessons, foreign language class, “lesson du jour”, etc until dinner time. When these children grow

up and go to college, they often cannot think for themselves and call their parents multiple times throughout the

day for advice on the most commonplace issues, such as a roommate who being a little difficult.

Striking a balance between freedom and oversight is one of the many challenges in parenting nowadays. Selina

and I are committed to empowering our girls (remember the story from last Summer about them having a lem-

onade stand to make some money to buy hair bands that they wanted vs us just giving the bands to them?), yet

having them respect limitations and order. Unfortunately babies don’t come with parenting books attached to the

umbilical cord. But if they did, I would highly recommend this one: Children: The Challenge by Rudolf Dreikurs It’s

an oldie but goodie!

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Announcing New Patient Referral Contest!Our practice has been built on the kindness of our patients spreading the news about us with

their family, friends, and co-workers. Based on feedback from patients, we are happy to

announce a new “Patient referral Contest”. Over the next 4 months (ending September 30),

we are happy to award gifts of appreciation to the patients who refer people

to our practice. Here’s the list of goodies for our referring patients.

1st referral Pizza delivered to your house

2nd referral $50 AMC (movie theater) Gift Card

3rd referral $100 Visa Gift Card

4th referral iPod Nano

5th referral Entered in drawing to win 2 night stay at Spa Hotel in Temecula Wine Country drawing to be done on 1/3/2012

6th referral Dinner & Show—2 tickets to Cirque Soleil or Ahmanson Theater Performance with Certificate for Dinner

7th referral Dinner & Music—2 tickets to Walt Disney Concert Hall or Hollywood Bowl with Certificate for Dinner

8th referral iPad

9th referral 2 Tickets to Staples Center LA Kings or LA Lakers Game with Dr. Brian and wife Selina in 2012 season

10th referral Entered in drawing to win 4 night stay with airfare to Oahu, Hawaii drawing to be done 1/3/2012

Great News if You Had a Corneal Transplant— How Laser Can Help Your Astigmatism

SOme PaTIenTS had COrnea TranSPlanTS performed because their eye surgeons were not yet familiar with Intacs, Holcomb

C3-R, and CK procedures. A very common problem with transplants is that they frequently cause HIGH ASTIGMATISM which

can cause more vision problems than the Keratoconus itself originally did. Great news! an outpatient laser procedure called PrK (which is related to laSIK) can reshape the surface of the corneal transplant and can reduce maSSIVe amounts of astig-matism even as high as 10 diopters. The benefit of reducing astigmatism is that contacts or glasses can be much weaker PLUS

better vision since the astigmatism is reduced. “For 14 years I suffered from red, blood shot, dry eyes. I tried everything there is, but nothing helped me. Then I found Dr. Brian who truly changed my life. It’s been 3 months since having I-BriteR and I cannot express how happy, grateful and thankful I am. I can’t find the words. This is truly a LIFE-CHANGING experience. I would encourage anyone suffering from red eyes to consider having I-BriteR—you won’t believe the difference!”

Directly From An I-BriteR Patient—

MarineGulogian,LosAngeles

In january, the TV show THE DOCTORS got wind of an

advanced LASIK procedure that I have been performing

for several years to help people read and see in the

distance. Monovision LASIK can work for a number of

people, especially if they do monovision in contact

lenses. But monovision does not work well for everyone.

multifocal laSIK is more like bifocal glasses where

the eyes are somewhat more similar to each other and

each eye can see both far away and can see better up close. Multifocal LASIK

does not necessary mean never needing reading glasses for small print or when

the light is low, but it can help free up people from the constant on-off-on-off of

drugstore readers or bifocals. To watch the video from the THE DOCTORS, please

go to www.boxerwachler.com/multifocal.

Multifocal LASIK for Reading Vision Featured on Dr. Phil’s The Doctors