Dr. William Chynn, MD FAACS, MBA, Park Avenue Lasek

Dr. Chynn's Story

When I was a premed student at Dartmouth in the 1980s the only procedures were RK and AK. These are incisional procedures where the surgeon makes manual incisions to change the shape of your cornea.

This technique was discovered by Dr. Filatov, an eye surgeon in Ukraine w hen he treated a child who fell off his bicycle, shattered his eyeglasses, and lacerated his cornea with many cuts.

Fortunately each incision only went 99% through the cornea and didn't perforate, or else the aqueous humor would have leaked out. Dr. Filatov decided to patch rather than sew the eye, since suturing always distorts the cornea and induces astigmatism. Miraculously, when the patch was removed, not only was his cornea intact--the child's myopia had disappeared!

Quick FACTS

Dr. Chynnn has treated the worst Rx ever treated successfully in the US by laser -22

Dr. Chynn was the first eye md in NYC to have LASIK.
Dr. Chynn switched to LASEK in 2005 bc he wanted to avoid the dry eyes and night glare he suffered from himself after my own LASIK
Dr. Chynn is the only surgeon in NYC specializing in the safer non incisional surface ablation technique He worked with and published papers with the inventor of LASEK when I was at Harvard
Dr. Chynn is performing more advanced surface Ablations than all the other surgeons in NYC combined.
Dr. Chynn is performing more advanced surface Ablations than any other surgeon in the US.
Dr. Chynn routinely treating patients who can't get Lasik.

Dr. Chynn routinely fixing LASIK complications with his newer more advanced surface technique.
We have the largest refractive fellowship not only in NYC but in the US.
We have as many refractive surgeons working at our center as every other center in NYC combined.
We are conducting more research writing more papers and giving more lectures than any other laser center in NYC.
Dr. Chynn is performing more research and lecturing on advanced surface Ablations than any other surgeon in the US.