It is now possible for you to have a truly customized laser vision procedure that results in your personal best vision.
With the FDA approval of wavefront-guided technology, it is now possible to detect and correct previously undetectable visual disorders.
Our new Ladarvision Custom LASIK procedure improves the conventional excimer laser system by employing wavefront diagnostic technology to precisely map and then precisely guide an excimer laser during surgery. This technology was developed for astronomy and uses theories of a Nobel prize winning physicist. The implications for your vision are profound and powerful.
The result is a diagnostic measurement up to 25 times more accurate than standard methods, and a personally customized LASIK procedure that will help you not only see more, but also see more clearly and more sharply.
How does Ladarvision Custom LASIK work?
The painless, non-intrusive wavefront technology precisely maps the imperfections in your eye’s optics by measuring how light travels through your eye. The doctor measures the wavefront by projecting light into your eye and measuring the reflected light that comes out. The light projected into your eye is focused on the retina. Part of this light reflects back out of your eye to the wavefront, which creates a three-dimensional map. The map is programmed into the laser, which then can customize the treatment for your eye based on your individual, personal 3D topography.
Next the wavefront guides the excimer laser more precisely than ever before in reshaping the cornea to correct your personal focusing errors.
What is the advantage of Ladarvision Custom LASIK?
Wavefront technology provides a measurement of your total focusing errors, which are known as “higher-order aberrations.” These imperfections were not even detectable before.
Until now, glasses, contact lenses and even conventional laser vision surgery corrected only the visual distortions called “lower order aberrations,” commonly known as nearsightedness, farsightedness and astigmatism. “Lower order aberrations” account for 85-90% of the quality of your vision. Conventional laser surgery provides an improvement in the quantity of your vision – the ability for you to see more of what you look at.
But now using the wavefront system, we also can address the remaining 10-15% of your eye’s optical imperfections called “higher order aberrations.” These imperfections often cause glare, shadows, halos and other visual distortions. With wavefront technology, you now can improve not just the quantity, but also the quality of your vision – not just how much you see, but how well you see it.
With this new technology you can not only see more, but you can see more sharply and more clearly.
Not only can you see more and more sharply and more clearly, Custom LASIK includes these additional benefits:
• Greater chance of 20/20 vision
• Greater chance of better than 20/20 vision
• Less chance of losing best-corrected vision
• Less chance of losing visual quality or contrast sensitivity
• Less chance of night-vision disturbances and glare
The wavefront technology when added to conventional LASIK surgery, gives your doctor much greater knowledge and accuracy of your personal vision limitations, and as a result much more ability to more precisely correct them. To determine whether conventional or Ladarvision Custom LASIK is right for you, schedule a consultation today with Dr. Keller.
IntraLase improvements:
The new IntraLase procedure for creating the corneal flap is 100 times more accurate than the previous procedure. The laser-controlled IntraLase procedure has replaced the previous mechanical process of cutting and lifting a corneal flap before reshaping the cornea with the LASIK laser. The previous method, while good, had inherent limitations and potential risks. IntraLase replaces the metal cutting tool with a laser-precise, laser-cutting technology. IntraLase’s precision may now make it possible to treat patients who previously were dismissed as candidates for laser vision correction because of their thin corneas.
The result is enhanced safety and precision while increasing the range of correction. In addition, there are fewer problems after the flap is put back in place.
LADARVISION Custom LASIK
