Custom Wavefront Surgery Benefits

Custom LASIK's advantage

• Greater chance of achieving 20/20 vision
• Greater chance of achieving better than 20/20 vision
• Reduced chance of losing best-corrected vision
• Reduced chance of losing visual quality or contrast sensitivity
• Reduced chance of night-vision disturbances and glare and halos

Studies have shown that the visual results with wavefront custom LASIK are more predictable than with traditional LASIK.

Comparing Custom LASIK Outcomes

Studies comparing results of wavefront LASIK with conventional LASIK found that 90 to 94 percent of patients receiving wavefront LASIK achieved visual acuity of 20/20 or better, whereas over 80 percent of those receiving conventional LASIK achieved 20/20 or better.

In August 2004 the U.S. Navy announced that patients at its refractive surgery center were achieving better distance vision and night vision after custom LASIK than after traditional LASIK.

Taken from the Journal of Zhejiang University Science: "Customized LASIK may have several advantages over conventional LASIK techniques. The greatest benefit is the potential for reducing post-LASIK night-vision problems, which are frequently caused by an increase in aberrations postoperatively. Customized LASIK may decrease the amount of induced aberration and has the potential to reduce pre-existing aberrations."

More of the Journal's findings on custom wavefront benefits.

Wavefront LASIK may not be for everyone. Because wavefront LASIK removes more corneal tissue than conventional LASIK, patients with thin corneas may not be good candidates. Also there is a limit to the degree of correction that can be achieved by the wavefront software. So some patients with higher degrees of myopia, hyperopia, and astigmatism may not be candidates for custom LASIK. However, these patients may still be good candidates for the conventional LASIK procedure.

The custom LASIK eye surgery cost is a modest amount more than the tradition LASIK laser eye surgery cost.