Wavefront Lasik | Wavefront Lasik Versus Traditional Lasik

Wavefront Lasik Versus Traditional Lasik

When consulting your doctor about laser eye surgery, you may learn that you have the option of wavefront LASIK as opposed to traditional LASIK surgery. The former is more expensive than the traditional surgery, yet there are many benefits from using wavefront.

Firstly the statistics state a great case for wavefront surgery: after wavefront LASIK, 90-94% of patients will enjoy 20/20 vision or better as opposed to 80% with traditional LASIK. But why is this the case?

The fact is that in traditional LASIK, measurements are based on general averages are used for reshaping the cornea whereas wavefront mapping consists in hundreds of measurements being taken across the surface of each individual eye.

Wavefront maps the eye by using a device known as an aberrometer to detect the overall refractive error of each eye. Light will be sent into the eye in a specific pattern, and any difference between the light going in and the light measured by the eye is considered an aberration.

These abberations, using wavefront technology, are able to be measured across hundreds of points on the eye enabling a completely individualised map of the eye’s surface to be created in each case.

The main difference between traditional LASIK and wavefront LASIK is the fact that these highly detailed and individualised mappings of the eye are what is used to guide the laser during reshaping of the cornea in surgery. Traditional LASIK offers no such accurate guide, which is why results are vastly improved when using wavefront LASIK surgery.

There are other benefits too, such as the fact that not only does wavefront improve how much you can see but it improves the quality of your vision. For example wavefront will be of huge benefit to those who may have poor night-time vision, recognising each point in the eye when there are abberations.

Unlike traditional LASIK surgery, wavefront accounts for how much as well as how well you can see by recognizing all types of aberration on the surface of the eye.

When you choose wavefront LASIK over traditional LASIK there is a greater chance that you will retain your corrected vision and reduced chance of night vision disturbances and glare. It can also treat those who have previously had the traditional surgery and have lost their best corrected vision.

Please ask your eye doctor whether wavefront LASIK could be the best treatment for you.  Read about Los Angeles Lasik.

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