Saturday, April 3, 2010

Wavefront LASIK – A custom LASIK

Wavefront LASIK is a technology which helps the doctor to obtain a 3-dismensional measurements of the patient's eye ,and from these measurement a customized surgical correction plan is obtained.
This accuracy help that patient to get 20/20 vision with less postoperative complications.

Friday, April 2, 2010

Wavefront LASIK – A custom LASIK .


Wavefront  LASIK , is the latest technology in the vision correction industry .
This technology has taken the LASIK eye surgery a further step . where it  uses a laser to create a cornea flap(the INTRALASIK procedure), and a Custom Wavefront technology to guide the excimer laser for the best possible results in the second step of the LASIK procedure.
With this technology the LASIK surgery became safer and more precise , and that's why it's being called the Custom LASIK ..how?
As we know , everyone's eyes are not the same …, and with the advanced software called Wavefront,  the doctor  get's  the ability to get a 3-dismensional  measurements of the patient's  eye , and as a result of these measurements  a customized map of the patient eye is obtained, this map shows how the patient 's eye process images when light enters. And therefore a customized surgical plan is taken to correct the irregularities  . The correction is determined precisely at specified depth and position according to the measurements  obtained, With these measurements, the doctor could use a laser to reshape the cornea properly.
This accuracy helps in the quality of the patient postoperative vision , and this is what is called wavefront LASIK or custom LASIK.

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