Custom Wavefront

Custom wavefront could be compared to a map of your city.

You should be qualified under Food and Drug Administration guidelines before custom wavefront LASIK would be considered for your eye condition. VISX, Incorporated, a pioneer in Custom Wavefront technology, conducted a multi-center, FDA clinical study to assess the safety and efficacy of its Wavefront guided laser Wavefront guided laser eye surgery for the treatment of nearsightedness and astigmatism nearsightedness and astigmatism.

Custom LASIK surgery, also known as wavefront LASIK or wavefront-guided LASIK, uses 3-dimensional measurements of how your eye processes images to guide the laser in re-shaping the front part of the eye .

In wavefront custom Lasik, PRK, LASEK, and Epi-Lasik, the excimer laser uses wavefront information to change the shape of the cornea by ablating tissue.

The primary difference between conventional Lasik and wavefront custom Lasik is the mapping system that guides the laser.

Wavefront Diagnostics & Custom Treatment Summary Wavefront-guided LASIK is a promising new technology that provides an advanced method for measuring optical distortions in the eye.

Perhaps more significantly for some, one complication of traditional LASIK is nighttime side effects like glare and halos.

VISX Star 4 system is made up of the Star S4 laser and the WaveScan Wavefront device.

The second is using what is learned from the diagnosis to create a wavefront-guided ablation for Lasik, PRK, LASEK, or Epi-Lasik.

In all refractive surgery procedures, wavefront or conventional, HOA tends to increase.

During a wavefront diagnosis, light is sent into the eye in a specific pattern, then measured after it has passed through the visual system.

HOA may increase no matter what you choose, but it will probably increase less with wavefront.

Custom wavefront-guided Lasik, LASEK, PRK, and Epi-Lasik directs the excimer laser to change the shape of the cornea using a more detailed mapping system than conventional refractive surgery.

In the United States, there are four wavefront responsive laser manufacturers.

Human vision provides some unique challenges for application of wavefront technology.

Wavefront LASIK creates a highly individualized laser correction of your eye’s surface, guided by precise analysis of vision errors that occur as light rays travel through your eye.

The surgeon in one popular method will begin by using the wavefront device to transmit a safe ray of light into your eye.

Uncorrected visual acuity of 20/20 or better was achieved by similar numbers, however: 72 percent of the wavefront group and 70 percent of the regular LASIK group.

Wavefront technology is groundbreaking because it has the potential to improve not only how much you can see, visual acuity measured by the standard 20/20 eye chart, but also how well you can see, in terms of contrast sensitivity and fine detail.

For more information on custom LASIK pricing, please see our article on the cost of refractive surgery.

It should be noted that wavefront treatment does induce some minor second-order spherical errors, but to a significantly lesser extent than conventional refractive surgery.

Before surgery even begins, the surgeon is better able to determine the appropriate course of treatment.

If the wavefront is retarded in relation to the reference wavefront, the laser must remove more tissue from the part of cornea related to that pattern.

Wavefront technology is an adjunct tool used to enhance an already safe and effective procedure.

To achieve a customized corneal shaping, it will require measuring the higher order optical aberrations using a wavefront analysis system called an Aberrometer and then digitally interfacing it with a laser, using high speed computerized control to direct the delivery of a very tiny beam of laser energy across the cornea.

Your unique wavefront pattern is programmed into the VISX Star S4 Excimer Laser, allowing customized LASIK treatment specific to your eye, increasing the precision and accuracy of LASIK.

Please call my vision correction office in Denver, Colorado if you have specific question or to arrange a complimentary consultation to see if you are a candidate for Wavefront CustomVue LASIK or PRK.

You will not benefit from Wavefront on your reading eye so you will only need traditional LASIK on your reading eye.

At 1 year post-op after Visx CustomVue Wavefront LASIK, 99% of FDA study patients saw 20/20 or better, 75% of patients saw 20/16 or better AND 23% saw 20/12 or better!!

Patients with small pupils , with over 6 diopters of nearsightedness, 3 diopters of astigmatism or with farsightedness cannot be treated with Wavefront CustomVue.

Wavefront technology generates a computerized, 3-dimensional measurement of your eye.

Contact Dr. Levinson and his Denver, Colorado laser vision correction Denver, Colorado laser vision correction staff for more information or to schedule a complimentary Custom Lasik vision correction Custom Lasik vision correction consultation.

Griffin & Reed Eye Care offers Custom LASIK vision correction services to patients in the Sacramento, Stockton, Roseville and Yuba City, California areas.

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