Riding the Wave Front of Technology with a Wavefront Evaluation

Filed in archive Wavefront LASIK on February 11, 2010

Before choosing refractive surgery like LASIK, it's important that you consider the benefits of getting a complete wavefront evaluation and diagnosis. Wavefront diagnostic technology provides a customized analysis of your eye, showing where the aberrations are and helping determine whether they would be made worse with surgery, or would be easily corrected with LASIK, Wavefront LASIK, or one of the many other types of refractive surgery like PRK, LASEK, Epi-LASIK, P-IOL, Nearvision CK or RLE.

The Procedure:

In this detailed examination, a laser light is beamed through the pupil of the eye, reflecting off the retina. Measurements of the reflected laser light are taken. The shape of the wave of this reflected light or "wavefront" determines the wavefront aberrations of the eye. Wavefront aberrations are simply the differences in the shape of the wavefront of an individual's eye when compared to that of an optically perfect eye. These differences are what cause distortions in vision like myopia, hyperopia, and astigmatism.

Don't forget to watch the informative video above. It provides a great overview of wavefront technology and the differences between conventional LASIK surgery and Wavefront LASIK.