The Market-Winning Potential of a Better, Safer Eye Surgery

If you're lucky enough to have decent vision, you probably don't think much about your eyes every day... But an eye has many parts... and a lot of complex functions. At the front of your eye is the cornea. It's a transparent lens that gathers light and directs it to the back of your eye. […] Not rendering correctly? View this e-mail as a web page [here](. [Empire Financial Daily] The Market-Winning Potential of a Better, Safer Eye Surgery By Dave Lashmet If you're lucky enough to have decent vision, you probably don't think much about your eyes every day... But an eye has many parts... and a lot of complex functions. At the front of your eye is the cornea. It's a transparent lens that gathers light and directs it to the back of your eye. The shape of your cornea determines how well that light is focused when it lands. There's also a lens behind your cornea... and it moves. Muscles inside your eye bend the lens to bring objects into focus for your central vision. That helps you see in fine detail. Prescription eyeglasses or contact lenses can "correct" for a misshapen cornea. They redirect incoming light so that it focuses correctly. But we can do even more... There's plenty of evolving tech and medicine here – progressive lenses made from exotic materials or longer-lasting, better-fitting contact lenses. In this piece, we will cover a company that's safely re-shaping the cornea... with lasers. You've probably heard of LASIK. Well, the laser technology we'll cover today is a revolutionary successor of LASIK. It uses a new tool and technique for a faster, safer experience... which makes for a market with big growth potential. Let me show you what I mean... Like LASIK, this new surgery gets rid of the need for glasses or contacts. But it's not just cosmetic. For example, the military uses it to avoid the logistical nightmare of glasses. To explain the differences between LASIK and this new surgery, let's start with the anatomy of the cornea. Both surgeries target this part of the eye. But one big difference lies in how to reach the cornea. As you can see in the picture below, your cornea has three layers separated by two super-thin boundaries... What you can see in this diagram are the three main layers: - A thin outer layer composed of epithelial cells (basically skin cells) and some nerve cells, - A thick middle layer filled with collagen and collagen-producing cells, plus some immune cells, - Followed by a thin inner layer of endothelial cells (like capillary cells), but no other blood vessels... See, even though there are living cells in your cornea, they get oxygen from the tears that bathe your eye. That's because blood is not transparent. Any blood in front of your retina would get in the way of your vision. So evolution found a way for your eye to react to touch (nerves) and receive oxygen (blinking). 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[Watch the replay here]( while it's still available. --------------------------------------------------------------- Unfortunately, that's the drawback to LASIK... and why we're so excited about a new, better procedure... A LASIK laser fries the first surface it encounters. That's why in a LASIK procedure, a doctor must first peel back the front of your cornea before using a laser to reshape the collagen-rich stroma layer and then fold the flap over your eye. But if light could pass through the outer layer without burning it, you wouldn't have to cut the outermost layer of the cornea. So you wouldn't have a fragile flap that can shear off... And you'd never get dry eye from cutting the nerves that tell your eyelid to blink. To do that, you'd need a laser that can stop its energy where it's needed. You'd need a laser that can take advantage of "Einstein's last secret" ([as we covered yesterday](... Fortunately, this exact device has been invented... The new procedure is called SMILE. (Editor's note: At the time of Dave's original recommendation in 2017, SMILE was just hitting U.S. vision centers, treating the first U.S. customers.) This method is already FDA-approved. So, unlike a lot of Stansberry Venture Technology picks, we don't have to guess what the FDA thinks... It has already told us. We think SMILE will trigger a revolution in cosmetic eye surgery because it safely reshapes the cornea. It only needs a small (2 mm) incision to pull out a disc of extra collagen. SMILE stands for "small incision lenticule extraction," where a "lenticule" is the disc of excess material you cut from the cornea – so that the rest of your cornea gives you perfect vision. The incision heals within days. This surgery has been approved in Europe since 2011. Between then and mid-2017, surgeons have performed more than 750,000 SMILE surgeries globally in 62 countries. And during that time, we've seen that its positive effects are the same as those of LASIK. It's the same level of vision correction, and it lasts just as long. But LASIK has more potential side effects, including more cases of severe dry eye and lost eye sensitivity. SMILE is a premium, expensive procedure... So, even though it's faster and safer than LASIK, it won't immediately take over the market. But compared with any other cosmetic surgery, it's cheap. And it's bound to be popular. As I hinted earlier, the U.S. military is buying the machines that make this possible. (It's cheaper for the government to pay for a SMILE procedure than to deliver prescription lenses everywhere in the world we send our troops, including active combat zones.) Elite cosmetic eye surgery clinics are buying in, too. And this technology will spread as it's introduced across the U.S. Right now, U.S. surgeons perform about 650,000 LASIK procedures annually... So if SMILE wins half this total market – including military recruits who wear glasses – this could mean 325,000 procedures per year. Again, because doctors have completed 750,000 SMILE surgeries globally since 2011, we can see there is proven demand. The company behind all this is Carl Zeiss Meditec (AFX.DE)... It's a European public company that is majority-owned by Zeiss Group, a 174-year-old industrial giant headquartered in Germany, with 30,000 global employees. And it has the first-mover advantage in this field. Zeiss Meditec is a profitable, growing, dividend-paying firm. It has taken steps into multiple areas of the medical-devices field. For now, though, we are recommending Zeiss Meditec for its SMILE laser surgery tool... to profit from Einstein's last secret. Regards, Dave Lashmet August 27, 2021 Editor's note: Readers who followed Dave's advice on Zeiss Meditec in Stansberry Venture Technology are sitting on gains of 218%. But now, he's on to a new critical investment idea that he says could dwarf those returns... 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