September 27, 2008

Wavefront Technology As Applied to Vision Correction - Is it For You?

Lasik surgery is perhaps the most common type of surgery that is performed in the US. Lasik is a type of surgery that changes the shape of the cornea to help correct the vision. Lasik surgery is a common procedure where a laser is guided to correct the cornea. However there are new developments in the Lasik eye surgery procedure and one major development has been the custom Lasik surgery.
Let us understand what custom lasik surgery means here. In the conventional world the Lasik eye surgery is used to correct the vision whereby using the laser the surgeon corrects the cornea. In the custom Lasik surgery the doctor uses the results from the laser to detect the aberrations and then use those results to direct the laser to a correct place on the cornea. In a nutshell, the laser is used for two things one is detecting the aberration and then uses the individual customized results to direct the laser.
Wavefront technology is not very new though it has been only a few years since the Wavefront technology has been used in the eye surgery area. Astronomers used to apply this technology to adjust the optical lenses of their telescopes. There […]

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