WHIPPLE EYE CENTER 8244 E. U.S. 36, Suite 200 Avon, IN 46123 317.272.2020 WhippleEyeCenter.com
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The year 2020 is a great time to promote healthy vision, according to Dr. Dan Whipple, founding physician at the Whipple Eye Center. “We are taking advantage of the year 2020 to promote getting out to see your eye doctor,” Whipple says. The Whipple Eye Center has been a cornerstone of the Avon community since 1992. Twenty-eight years ago Hendricks County was an underserved area for eye care. That all changed in July of 1992 when Whipple opened the Whipple Eye Center in Avon. His first office was at Prestwick, and in 1993 he moved to the Hendricks Regional Health building, where he remains today. Whipple’s eye exam team sees patients for office visits on the upstairs level, and Whipple performs surgeries downstairs in the Hibbeln Surgery Center. “I’m a big fan of taking care of people locally,” says Whipple, who has performed more than 10,000 cataract surgeries right here in
Hendricks County. “I like being able to bring cutting-edge technology to Hendricks County so that my patients don’t have to travel to Indianapolis or elsewhere for the most up-to-date eye care.” Whipple is a leader in no-shot, no-stitch, no-patch cataract surgery, and he has taught the technique since 1996. “Cataract surgery has evolved significantly during my 30-year career,” Whipple says. “People are having it done much younger, since the success rates are over 97 percent and it’s permanent. Once removed, cataracts don’t come back. In addition, there is a great opportunity to become less dependent or completely independent of glasses, with advances in intraocular lens implant (IOL) technology for astigmatism and trifocal correction. Whipple Eye Center has been a leader in these advanced technology IOLs for over a decade.” In June of 2012, Whipple was the first eye surgeon in central Indiana to introduce laser-assisted cataract surgery with the LenSx femtosecond laser. Another example of the state-of-the-art care offered by the Whipple Eye Center team is MIGS, microinvasive glaucoma surgery, which combines cataract surgery
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