Top National Honors Awarded to Local Eye Practice

April 2, 2005 - Excel Eye Center, the valley’s largest ophthalmic practice, has been named a LaserVision Top 50 Practice for 2004.

LaserVision, one of the world’s largest providers of refractive laser services, presented the award to the 50 LaserVision-affiliated refractive practices that achieved the highest volume for LASIK in 2004. The doctors at Excel Eye Center, Hunsaker and Lohner, combined to perform over 850 LASIK procedures on more than 430 Utah residents last year.

Excel Eye Center was founded in 1917 by Drs. Oaks and Merrill and has steadily grown each year to become an area leader in laser vision correction—serving nearly half of Utah Valley with quality eye care. “It’s really been a result of our excellent staff working with our excellent patients that has enabled Excel to be named one of the Top 50 LaserVision Practices,” said Randal Ellsworth, M.D. “I want to thank the community for trusting us with their vision.”

About Excel Eye Center

For more than 80 years, Excel Eye Center has been the standard for eye care in Utah County by consistently providing the highest available levels of professional eye treatment in a caring and friendly environment. Today the company is among the largest private ophthalmologic practices in the Western United States with full-service treatment centers in Provo, Orem, American Fork, and Payson and satellite offices in Nephi, Fillmore, Mt. Pleasant, Richfield, Gunnison, and Delta. In addition to offering a complete range of ophthalmologic and optometric services, the company also specializes in laser-assisted corrective surgery, (including LASIK), pediatric ophthalmology, cataract care and cosmetic surgery. For more information, call (801) 374-1818 or visit www.exceleyecenter.com.

About LaserVision

LaserVision is a subsidiary of TLC Vision Corporation. LaserVision is one of the world’s largest and most trusted providers of excimer lasers, related equipment and support services for the treatment of nearsightedness, farsightedness and astigmatism. LaserVision surgeons have performed more than a half million procedures worldwide.

TLC Vision Corporation, LaserVision’s parent company, trades on the NASDAQ National Market under the symbol “TLCV” and on the Toronto Stock Exchange under the symbol “TLC.” For more information, visit www.LaserVision.com

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