NJ Optometrists Helps with Extreme Makeover
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DENVILLE — When the popular ABC reality TV show, Extreme Makeover: Home Edition, needed a low-vision specialist to provide eye care to a family with the hereditary disease called aniridia, they looked no further than New Jersey optometric physician, Ron Siwoff, O.D., FAAO, for help.
Siwoff, a member of the New Jersey Society of Optometric Physicians, was asked by the show to volunteer as an eye consultant for Bergen County family, the Llaneses, in which four of the six family members were born without irises. Doctors’ services on the show are typically provided behind-the-scenes, but Siwoff recognized the difficulties of designing a home that would meet the Llaneses family’s unique needs and offered to help the design team.
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The Extreme Makeover: Home Edition featuring Dr. Siwoff and the Llanes family is scheduled to air on ABC on Sunday, September 17, 2006, from 7 p.m. — 9 p.m.