LASIK Laser Eye Surgery Blog at Eye Surgery USA

What Are The Benefits of Wavefront-Guided Custom LASIK?

Many of the concerns surrounding LASIK are the post LASIK complications that may occur, such as glare, halos and difficulty seeing at night, which is why Wavefront technology is cutting-edge. It not only has the potential to improve your vision based on the standard 20/20 chart, but has the potential to improve the fine details and better contrast.

Lower-order aberrations or small defects such as myopia, hyperopia and astigmatism can determine how much you can see. These defects can be treated with traditional LASIK.

Higher-order aberrations or a measure of visual distortions more severe than normal vision problems that cause decreased vision at night, glare, shadows and halos cannot be treated with traditional LASIK and are sometimes a side effect of traditional LASIK. Thus the amount of higher-order aberrations determines how well you see. Wavefront LASIK can address these higher-order aberrations.

Wavefront LASIK has the advantage of offering a higher quality of vision and not just a measure of how much you can see. On top of being able to achieve 20/20 or better vision, there is a reduced chance of losing visual quality such as contrast sensitivity, vision at night and distorted vision effects such as halos and glares.

Wavefront LASIK is also ideal for those who have had vision correction procedures done already and have since lost the corrected vision, from previous LASIK, PRK and RK procedures.

Answer provided by Elizabeth Miller, MD of Savannah, GA

Labels: Wavefront LASIK

 

---