Wavefront Laser Eye Surgery

Custom Wavefront Lasik Surgery Gives Even Better Results

Many people are familiar with the term "laser eye surgery" and know it to be a type of corrective surgery to help improve various vision impairments. Lasik laser has become a very popular solution for many people, since it became widely available about a decade ago, in the mid 1990s. Unlike older forms of eye surgery, Lasik does not necessitate cutting the eye with a surgical scalpel. Instead, lasers are used to do the job. Recently, custom wavefront laser eye surgery was introduced as an advancement to the basic Lasik method.

Wavefront Laser Eye Surgery

The phrase "custom wavefront" Wavefront Laser Eye Surgery is actually not as new as might be thought. The term "wavefront" has actually been around for almost a century and was commonly used in astronomy, as a concept of using mirrors and various lenses to manipulate rays of light. However, the term was applied to the Lasik form of laser eye surgery about a decade ago, in the late 1990s. These same principles began to be applied to the corrective procedures to enhance the outcome of Lasik vision surgeries.

What really makes the custom wavefront laser eye surgery method different from the standard lasik eye surgery is that it provides the Lasik eye doctor with a considerable amount of additional, detailed information to help him better pinpoint the exact laser eye surgery problems in the eye that need to be corrected. This is done by a mapping process that uses the way the light passes through the eye to reveal a three-dimensional image of the interior of the eye.

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