Advanced Lasik Eye Surgery: Wavefront Lasik Surgery

Lasik eye surgery can be wonderful and life-changing experience for most people who has vision problem. This eye correction surgery is one of the most successful procedures but it doesn’t mean that 100% of the Lasik surgery successful.  To improve success level, there is Lasik technology called Wavefront.

Wavefront Lasik utilize 3 dimensional approaches to see and accurately map even a little variations in the surface of the patients eye. A wavefront is a series of waves made by a device that reach a human cornea at the same time. These waves then focus on certain points on the retina and make three dimensional measurements on how your eyes process images when light enters. All of this information generated by the Lasik sensor is converted by software into a set of directions to be carried out by the Lasik excimer laser. Since this measure cornea from many different points, it has more precise measurement and surgeon could use a laser to reshape the cornea properly.  

The Wavefront technology is groundbreaking, enables eye correction that could not be performed by standard Lasik procedure. The Wavefront treatment also easily custom to each patient’s requirements so it’s also known as Custom Lasik.

Wavefront Lasik gives bigger advantages compare to traditional Lasik. Here are the benefits of the Wavefront LASIK in terms of the quality of your vision

• It gives greater possibilities that that the surgery achieves a twenty-twenty vision or will get better vision than twenty-twenty.
• It allows lower possibilities of losing the optimal correction for your vision and lower possibilities of losing the quality in your vision as well.
• It lowers the chance of losing sensitivity in terms of contrast and getting glares also.
• With this procedure, it’s unlikely you will have problems seeing at night
• There may be some possibilities to correct previous refractive surgeries and make seeing better using this Wavefront Lasik surgery.

Most refractive surgeons now use Wavefront guided Lasik in their practices. Clinical studies reported by VISX CustomVue Wavefront Lasik eye surgery procedure show that one year after treatment:

• Up to 98% of low-to-moderately nearsighted patients could see 20/20 or better without corrective lenses.
• At least 95% of low to moderate nearsighted patients with mixed astigmatism could pass a driving test without glasses or contact lenses.

Ask your Lasik Surgeon about this procedure and cost but since this procedure use advanced technology which require additional license fee from the device manufacturer, the cost of Wavefront Lasik is significantly higher. This customized procedure typically costs several hundred dollars per eye more than conventional (non-Wavefront) Lasik.

There are several option of Lasic surgery so it's important to discuss its applications with your eye doctor or surgeon to determine if you are a good candidate and which procedure to suit your best.

Nowadays, any lasik procedures are almost risk free. I have a few friends enjoy this eye recovering technology. One of my friend now is free from glasses and softlense; she previously use it since she's 10 years old. Before doing Lasik procedures, she was myopic - minus 13. t takes only one day from start until full recovery. She was really glad that she did the surgery.