ML7 in Clinical Use: Designs and Features for Success is a presentation given by L. Shawn Wong, MD at the 2012 ESCRS Convention in Milan, Italy. In the presentation, Dr. Wong describes the long list of features that creates for outstanding clinical outcomes and confident surgeons. Learn more at www.mlogics.com

1. ML 7 in Clinical Use:
Designs and Features
for Success
L. Shawn Wong MD
Medical Director
Eyes of Texas Laser Center
Austin, Texas, USA

2. Clinical Success:
-Reliability, Safety, Efficiency,
Versatility, Ergonomic Ease…
Personal Success:
CONFIDENCE
-Flawless Surgery
-Fantastic Patient Results
-Enjoy the Surgical Day!!

4. Easy Set Up

5. CLB Blade Shuttle

6. CLB Blade Shuttle
-Efficient MK Assembly
-Edge Protection
-Preop CLB Inspection

8. Ease of Application
Vertical Cone Ergonomics

9. Reliable Alignment
-Gentian Marks
-Align or Offset Flap

10. 360° Symmetry
Any Hinge Position

11. -Temporal Hinge
-Best for : Exposure, Handling, Protection
-Impossible for Other MKs
-Superior
-Nasal
-Traditional
-High/Obilque Astigmatism Cases May
Benefit

12. Key: Obtain
Efficient and Secure
Vacuum…
Result: A Perfect Flap

13. Efficient Vacuum

14. -Jog Wheel Vac Control
-Quick Adjustability for Flap
Consistency Between Eyes (SD: 4u)!
-Vacuum Pump/Reservior
-Fast Rise Time
-Quiet
-Virtually Unlimited Life
-Built-in Battery Backup

15. Security at the Ring

16. -No Vacuum Bias or
Pseudosuction
-”Eliminate”
Subconj Bruises

17. Shielded Design
For a Protected Pass

18. -No Speculum for
Small Eyes/Orbits
-Elevated (Protected)
Rails and Drive
-No Interference

19. Patient/Surgeon Friendly

20. Efficiency
GREAT FLAPS in 7 SECONDS

21. Flap Quality
with the ML 7:
Precision and
Accuracy at
Every Level

22. Calibrated LASIK Blades (CLB)

23. Calibrated LASIK Blades (CLB)
Typical Blade

24. Calibrated LASIK Blades (CLB)
-EVERY BLADE is of KNOWN ACCURACY and
PRECISION
-LASIK FLAPS ARE OF PREDETERMINED
THICKNESS (SURGEON CAN CHOOSE)
-ECTASIAS ARE ELIMINATED

25. Superior Fit

26. No Wobble or Chatter

27. Superior Fit
Non-binding Linear Rail Bearing:
-Tight Tolerance with Low Friction
-Long-Wearing Design

28. Superior Materials
LUBRICIOUS, HARDENED TYPICAL KERATOME
FINISH

29. Superior Fit/Finish
of ML 7 + CLB:
-Great Flaps
-Predetermined Depth
-Tight Tolerance Between
Eyes

30. -Epithelial Abrasions
“Eliminated”
-Low Maintenance
-“Durable Precision”over
Many Cases

31. Flap Morphology
and ML 7 Design

32. “Ideal” Flaps:
-100u Mean Thickness
-Surgical “Efficiency”
-Ease of Enhancement
-Planar Configuration
-Aspheric Blend Rx.

33. ML 7 and the
Planar Flap
Formula

34. Planar Flap Formula:
1. Linear Translation
2. Buttonhole Free Design
3. Load Compensation
Software

35. 1. Linear Translation
-Linear Movement:
Even Cutting Rate
-Pivoting MKs:
Uneven Cut by Design

36. Origin of Buttonholes:
Any Loss of Applanation
Results in a Buttonhole!

37. 2. Buttonhole-Free Design
Hansatome
This area can lose -Expanded Plate
applanation in a -Constant Applanation
typical pass… BUTTONHOLES
BUTTONHOLE is ELIMINATED!
POSSIBLE

38. 3. Load Compensation Software
-The ML 7 has Software to COMPENSATE for
Increased Blade and Drive Resistance
-Constant Blade and Translation Speed:
Planar Flap Morphology

39. ML 7 Planar Flaps by OCT

40. Consistency
160
123 1 23 126
120 18
1 15
1 1 711 7
11 41
109 109 1 21
11 2 11 13
1 1 11
1 1 13 1 1
091 09 10 1
1 09 1
105 106 1 105
05 05 1
02 04 99 98 1 1
07 11 11
08 08
05 1 1
06 08 05 08
11 04
01 100 1 1 99 98 04 101 04 102 1 99
01 98 103 1 01
91 92 95 91
98 9897 9897 96
92 89 94 96 99 99
94 92 94 96 94 95
99
92 95 93 98 92 91 96
88 88 89 90 90 90 89 88
89
85 86 86 83 84 87
80
74 77 77 82
76 75 79
74 7476 76
82
72 72
40
0
0 20 40 60 80 100
SD: 12u
Range: 72u-126u
Mean: 98u

41. Thin corneas
- ≤ 500u CCT
-Ø signs/symptoms of KC
-Normal Topography
-Age 30 +

42. Thin Cornea Data
52 eyes
Range: 80u-118u
SD: 12u
Mean: 98u

43. Conclusions:
-The Design and Features of the ML 7
Provide Success on All Levels
-Supreme Reliability, Safety, and
Versatility for All LASIK Candidates
-Superior Precision/Value is Built-in

44. ML 7 HIGHLIGHT:
EVERYBODY
Loves My
Surgery Days!

45. …Everybody is a
SUCCESS…

46. Grazie