November 19, 2024 • 9 mins
Dr. Michael Keil joins Steve Kelly for a Talk of the Town!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
It's Talk of the Town on news radio with thirteen
hundred and one oh six nine FM Steve Kelly and
Red Picata from West Michigan's Morning News. And back with
us again with Keel Lasik Vision Center Doctor Michael Keel, Doc.
Thanks for doing this today.
Speaker 2 (00:13):
Thanks for doing it with me.
Speaker 1 (00:14):
Keel Lasik dot com is the best website. And over
the years we've talked about a lot of your procedures,
popular procedures. We'll get to some of your philanthropic work
because there's a volume of it out there. But can
we start with interocular contact lenses. Talk to us about
it and what their intended outcomes are.
Speaker 2 (00:34):
Yeah, absolutely my pleasure. So this is something that's available
for people roughly between twenty and forty years of age
and if your higher eyeglass prescriptions, so if you're very
near sighted, or if you maybe you don't want lace
or you can't get Lasik or other procedures, ICL or
intraocular contact lens is an option for you. And it
(00:55):
may sound kind of wild, but it is kind of
just that, you know, we put a lens inside of
a person's eyes, kind of like when we do cataract
surgery in that situation, we actually remove a natural lens
from the patient's eye and put in a new lens.
With this ICL we don't remove anything. So the nice
thing about it is that's actually technically reversible because if
(01:18):
you put the lens in, you could technically take a
lens back out if you want to, but nobody does
because their vision is great afterwards.
Speaker 3 (01:24):
So, doc, let's talk about cataract surgery. I know, my
mom just kind of went through this. It's becoming more popular,
especially with the older generation. And I'm assuming the risk
factor or the concern factor from potential patients has gone
down to because so many people are doing it now.
Speaker 2 (01:40):
Oh absolutely. I mean. The thing about cataract surgery is
there's a lens inside of our eyes that starts going
bad in our forties, and any of us who are
over forty kind of have an idea about what that's like,
because you start to lose your near vision or you
start to eating byefocal, and that same lens that starts
failing in our forties eventually goes on to turn into
a cataract. So the thing is, if we live long enough,
(02:01):
we all get cataracts. That's why it's a very common procedure.
And now you know, with new techniques and new technology,
you know, we're starting to do this procedure on patients
who are a little bit earlier in that process. So
if they're just in their fifties their sixties and you know,
they're in bifocals or reading glasses and that's bothersome to them,
(02:22):
or maybe they've been told they have an early cataract,
that's something we can actually address now and have instead
of having to wait until the point where it gets
really bad.
Speaker 1 (02:31):
To that point, doctor Keel, we're talking to doctor Michael
Keel with Keel Lasak Vision Center again Keels dot com.
Help us with some terminology reflective lens exchange in context
with cataract surgery.
Speaker 2 (02:46):
Yes, So the biggest difference between what we call refractive
lens exchange or r l E and what's called traditional
cataract surgery is the goal. The goal of traditional cataract
strogree is to get rid of the cataract for your
best division. After cataact surgery, you still have to wear glasses,
whether it's reading glasses or whether it's bifocals. It kind
(03:07):
of depends. You know. Now there is something called premium
cataract surgery where you pay a little bit extra and
we do lenses that make it so you don't have
to wear reading glasses or bifocals afterwards, kind of depending
on the plan. Refracted lens exchange is a patient who
doesn't necessarily have a cataract or really the goal of
refractive lens exchange or url E is to get rided glasses,
(03:29):
and so that's what we do at qi as Division Center.
We do that, which means we get rid of any
potential possibility of developing cataracts, so you don't have to
worry about cataracts when you're older, and we get you
rid of your glasses, whether it's reading glasses or bifocals,
and make it so you never need glasses again. So
if you ever need anything else in the future to
get you out of glasses or keep you out of glasses,
(03:51):
we don't charge you for it.
Speaker 3 (03:52):
It's kiel Lasik dot com and doctor kills with us
right now, and that's k Ei l Lasik dot com.
It is that where you would suggest someone who's listening
to this and maybe saying I want to look more
into that, or you know, what is the price in er.
What's the process to go through is to go to
the website first, doctor Keel.
Speaker 2 (04:10):
Yes, absolutely, that's the best first start. From there, you
can get you can text us, or you can email,
or you can call us. We're very happy to talk
to people. We do free consultations. So if you're concerned
at all, you know, you can come on in. You
can meet us, you can meet the staff, you can
see the facility. We do all the procedures right there
in the office under sterial condition of the course, and
(04:34):
it's really nice, sort of the one stop shop there.
Speaker 1 (04:37):
Well, let's talk a little bit about your philanthropic endeavors.
Since your ophthalmology residency, you've supported mercy ships. Tell us
a little bit about that work.
Speaker 2 (04:49):
Yes, so, doctor Ralph crew up in Big Rapids, Michigan
has been an amazing inspiration to me and to a
lot of the optimologists in our and he does mission trips.
So there are people, Like I said before, if you
live long enough you get cataracts. If you get cataracts,
eventually you go blind from cataracts. Nice thing about the
(05:10):
United States, so we can address that, but in other
countries there's a lot of times that they don't have
optomologists around or they don't have eye surgeons. So the
missions are designed to go into other countries and try
to teach the local doctors how to manage these cataracts
and also do the surgeries. So he started the process
when I was a resident, so he would take all
(05:30):
the residents with the old Metro Hospital here in town,
we had a residency where we would train enthomologists and
he would take the resident to a country that, you know,
a developing country where we would do the vision restoring
cataract surgery. And so throughout my career I've always supported
that and we would continue to send our residents to
(05:52):
different missions. One of the missions that we did was
Mercy ships, and so a mercyship is literally a big
giant hospital ship that goes around the world. There's afric
Commercy right now. There used to be Caribbean Mercy and
they used to go to different places of need and
they do all kinds of different surgeries, including vision restoring
cateract surgery. So in November and December of every year,
(06:16):
we for everybody who comes in for free consultation, we
donate somebody so that people so that someone can have
vision restoring cataract surgery with Mercy ships.
Speaker 3 (06:25):
Very cool and doctor Keel is on the line with
this from Keel Lasik for the Talk of the Town.
And you know other holiday charity initiatives that you do.
I know you do a lot of fundraising, like you said,
for that, but also just for people here in West Michigan,
correct that are less fortunate and maybe need to have
some surgery or some help.
Speaker 2 (06:43):
Oh yeah, for sure. I mean we've done a few
things over the years. We had a patient with lou
Gherrig's disease actually, and you know, with that disease, it's
such a bad thing. You know, eventually you can't get
to the point where you can't put your conjac Sam,
you can't put your glass and take your glasses on
and off. So we've done surgery for people like that
who just can't you know, eventually, you know, can't can't
(07:03):
do that, you know. So that's been kind of cool.
Speaker 1 (07:07):
And obviously your ongoing commitment to vision restoration. You mentioned
cataract mission work. You've been to India and Dominique and
Nicaragua and talk to us a little bit more about
your dedication to improving the lives through charitable outreach, including
those global missions.
Speaker 2 (07:26):
Well, you know, I mean my my overall mission, to
be honest with you, is to manage what we call
refractive errors. So about half the world's population within the
next ten or twenty years is going to need glasses
for one reason or another, which is a lot. So
if we could figure out a way to prevent that
from even happening from the first place, if we could
figure out how we eliminate in near sightedness and just
(07:47):
eliminate it all together, that would be fantastic. But before
we can get there, you know, there are lots of
ways that we can treat it, which is you know,
like lasink and PRK and refective lens exchange and cateacurory.
And so you know, one of my my goal in
the next you know, ten years, as my kids have
kind of grown up and they're going left to college
and is to go to these different parts of the
world and see how I can help out, you know,
(08:07):
because the need is is tremendous. And so I did.
I went to India, went to Chennai, India at doctor
Ogi Wald's Eye Hospital, and uh, in one week, I
did fifty eyes, which was a lot of work. I
guess I'm pretty proud of that. But it was it
was quite an experience. It was just an amazing The
people over there are amazing. I was there just before
(08:28):
they were going to become the most populous country on
the planet, and so it was kind of interesting because
they were kind of excited about that. I think, you know,
it's really an up and coming place. It's a busy,
busy place. It's a lot of people. It's kind of amazing.
And so so the next so next year, I'm going
actually with doctor Ralph Crue from Big Rapids. I'm going
with him down to Dominica, down down in the Caribbean
(08:50):
to do another mission. So I'm really excited about that.
Speaker 1 (08:53):
You may find out more about the body of work
and what may be right for you on the website
kiel lasak dot com. That's keelasic dot com with Keelask
Vision Center Doctor Michael Keel. Thank you so much for
your time today.
Speaker 2 (09:07):
Touch your pleasure, guys, Thank you so much.
Speaker 1 (09:09):
This is Talk of the Town on news Radio with
thirteen hundred and one oh six nine FM.
It's Talk of the Town on news radio with thirteen
hundred and one oh six nine FM Steve Kelly and
Red Picata from West Michigan's Morning News. And back with
us again with Keel Lasik Vision Center Doctor Michael Keel, Doc.
Thanks for doing this today.
Speaker 2 (00:13):
Thanks for doing it with me.
Speaker 1 (00:14):
Keel Lasik dot com is the best website. And over
the years we've talked about a lot of your procedures,
popular procedures. We'll get to some of your philanthropic work
because there's a volume of it out there. But can
we start with interocular contact lenses. Talk to us about
it and what their intended outcomes are.
Speaker 2 (00:34):
Yeah, absolutely my pleasure. So this is something that's available
for people roughly between twenty and forty years of age
and if your higher eyeglass prescriptions, so if you're very
near sighted, or if you maybe you don't want lace
or you can't get Lasik or other procedures, ICL or
intraocular contact lens is an option for you. And it
(00:55):
may sound kind of wild, but it is kind of
just that, you know, we put a lens inside of
a person's eyes, kind of like when we do cataract
surgery in that situation, we actually remove a natural lens
from the patient's eye and put in a new lens.
With this ICL we don't remove anything. So the nice
thing about it is that's actually technically reversible because if
(01:18):
you put the lens in, you could technically take a
lens back out if you want to, but nobody does
because their vision is great afterwards.
Speaker 3 (01:24):
So, doc, let's talk about cataract surgery. I know, my
mom just kind of went through this. It's becoming more popular,
especially with the older generation. And I'm assuming the risk
factor or the concern factor from potential patients has gone
down to because so many people are doing it now.
Speaker 2 (01:40):
Oh absolutely. I mean. The thing about cataract surgery is
there's a lens inside of our eyes that starts going
bad in our forties, and any of us who are
over forty kind of have an idea about what that's like,
because you start to lose your near vision or you
start to eating byefocal, and that same lens that starts
failing in our forties eventually goes on to turn into
a cataract. So the thing is, if we live long enough,
(02:01):
we all get cataracts. That's why it's a very common procedure.
And now you know, with new techniques and new technology,
you know, we're starting to do this procedure on patients
who are a little bit earlier in that process. So
if they're just in their fifties their sixties and you know,
they're in bifocals or reading glasses and that's bothersome to them,
(02:22):
or maybe they've been told they have an early cataract,
that's something we can actually address now and have instead
of having to wait until the point where it gets
really bad.
Speaker 1 (02:31):
To that point, doctor Keel, we're talking to doctor Michael
Keel with Keel Lasak Vision Center again Keels dot com.
Help us with some terminology reflective lens exchange in context
with cataract surgery.
Speaker 2 (02:46):
Yes, So the biggest difference between what we call refractive
lens exchange or r l E and what's called traditional
cataract surgery is the goal. The goal of traditional cataract
strogree is to get rid of the cataract for your
best division. After cataact surgery, you still have to wear glasses,
whether it's reading glasses or whether it's bifocals. It kind
(03:07):
of depends. You know. Now there is something called premium
cataract surgery where you pay a little bit extra and
we do lenses that make it so you don't have
to wear reading glasses or bifocals afterwards, kind of depending
on the plan. Refracted lens exchange is a patient who
doesn't necessarily have a cataract or really the goal of
refractive lens exchange or url E is to get rided glasses,
(03:29):
and so that's what we do at qi as Division Center.
We do that, which means we get rid of any
potential possibility of developing cataracts, so you don't have to
worry about cataracts when you're older, and we get you
rid of your glasses, whether it's reading glasses or bifocals,
and make it so you never need glasses again. So
if you ever need anything else in the future to
get you out of glasses or keep you out of glasses,
(03:51):
we don't charge you for it.
Speaker 3 (03:52):
It's kiel Lasik dot com and doctor kills with us
right now, and that's k Ei l Lasik dot com.
It is that where you would suggest someone who's listening
to this and maybe saying I want to look more
into that, or you know, what is the price in er.
What's the process to go through is to go to
the website first, doctor Keel.
Speaker 2 (04:10):
Yes, absolutely, that's the best first start. From there, you
can get you can text us, or you can email,
or you can call us. We're very happy to talk
to people. We do free consultations. So if you're concerned
at all, you know, you can come on in. You
can meet us, you can meet the staff, you can
see the facility. We do all the procedures right there
in the office under sterial condition of the course, and
(04:34):
it's really nice, sort of the one stop shop there.
Speaker 1 (04:37):
Well, let's talk a little bit about your philanthropic endeavors.
Since your ophthalmology residency, you've supported mercy ships. Tell us
a little bit about that work.
Speaker 2 (04:49):
Yes, so, doctor Ralph crew up in Big Rapids, Michigan
has been an amazing inspiration to me and to a
lot of the optimologists in our and he does mission trips.
So there are people, Like I said before, if you
live long enough you get cataracts. If you get cataracts,
eventually you go blind from cataracts. Nice thing about the
(05:10):
United States, so we can address that, but in other
countries there's a lot of times that they don't have
optomologists around or they don't have eye surgeons. So the
missions are designed to go into other countries and try
to teach the local doctors how to manage these cataracts
and also do the surgeries. So he started the process
when I was a resident, so he would take all
(05:30):
the residents with the old Metro Hospital here in town,
we had a residency where we would train enthomologists and
he would take the resident to a country that, you know,
a developing country where we would do the vision restoring
cataract surgery. And so throughout my career I've always supported
that and we would continue to send our residents to
(05:52):
different missions. One of the missions that we did was
Mercy ships, and so a mercyship is literally a big
giant hospital ship that goes around the world. There's afric
Commercy right now. There used to be Caribbean Mercy and
they used to go to different places of need and
they do all kinds of different surgeries, including vision restoring
cateract surgery. So in November and December of every year,
(06:16):
we for everybody who comes in for free consultation, we
donate somebody so that people so that someone can have
vision restoring cataract surgery with Mercy ships.
Speaker 3 (06:25):
Very cool and doctor Keel is on the line with
this from Keel Lasik for the Talk of the Town.
And you know other holiday charity initiatives that you do.
I know you do a lot of fundraising, like you said,
for that, but also just for people here in West Michigan,
correct that are less fortunate and maybe need to have
some surgery or some help.
Speaker 2 (06:43):
Oh yeah, for sure. I mean we've done a few
things over the years. We had a patient with lou
Gherrig's disease actually, and you know, with that disease, it's
such a bad thing. You know, eventually you can't get
to the point where you can't put your conjac Sam,
you can't put your glass and take your glasses on
and off. So we've done surgery for people like that
who just can't you know, eventually, you know, can't can't
(07:03):
do that, you know. So that's been kind of cool.
Speaker 1 (07:07):
And obviously your ongoing commitment to vision restoration. You mentioned
cataract mission work. You've been to India and Dominique and
Nicaragua and talk to us a little bit more about
your dedication to improving the lives through charitable outreach, including
those global missions.
Speaker 2 (07:26):
Well, you know, I mean my my overall mission, to
be honest with you, is to manage what we call
refractive errors. So about half the world's population within the
next ten or twenty years is going to need glasses
for one reason or another, which is a lot. So
if we could figure out a way to prevent that
from even happening from the first place, if we could
figure out how we eliminate in near sightedness and just
(07:47):
eliminate it all together, that would be fantastic. But before
we can get there, you know, there are lots of
ways that we can treat it, which is you know,
like lasink and PRK and refective lens exchange and cateacurory.
And so you know, one of my my goal in
the next you know, ten years, as my kids have
kind of grown up and they're going left to college
and is to go to these different parts of the
world and see how I can help out, you know,
(08:07):
because the need is is tremendous. And so I did.
I went to India, went to Chennai, India at doctor
Ogi Wald's Eye Hospital, and uh, in one week, I
did fifty eyes, which was a lot of work. I
guess I'm pretty proud of that. But it was it
was quite an experience. It was just an amazing The
people over there are amazing. I was there just before
(08:28):
they were going to become the most populous country on
the planet, and so it was kind of interesting because
they were kind of excited about that. I think, you know,
it's really an up and coming place. It's a busy,
busy place. It's a lot of people. It's kind of amazing.
And so so the next so next year, I'm going
actually with doctor Ralph Crue from Big Rapids. I'm going
with him down to Dominica, down down in the Caribbean
(08:50):
to do another mission. So I'm really excited about that.
Speaker 1 (08:53):
You may find out more about the body of work
and what may be right for you on the website
kiel lasak dot com. That's keelasic dot com with Keelask
Vision Center Doctor Michael Keel. Thank you so much for
your time today.
Speaker 2 (09:07):
Touch your pleasure, guys, Thank you so much.
Speaker 1 (09:09):
This is Talk of the Town on news Radio with
thirteen hundred and one oh six nine FM.
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