Wavefront excimer laser technology provides the most accurate reshaping of your eye by creating a highly detailed map, showing your eye’s unique focusing abilities and how light is focused in different parts of your eye. These subtle variations are known as high order distortions, which account for roughly 10% of all optical distortions. This map or “fingerprint” of the eye is 25 times more accurate than what was previously measurable by standard methods.
With this information, our surgeons customize your procedure and provide a vision correction solution as unique as your fingerprint. This technology helps surgeons minimize complications, such as night vision problems like halos and glare, that occur in a small percentage of cases. It is expanding the horizons of vision correction.
The patient sits at the Wavescan machine, while an infrared light is directed into the eyes and reflects off the retina. The Wavescan machine computes the light into a pattern showing the cornea’s irregularities. This information is then fed into a computer controlled laser and a 3D wavescan is created, then converted into an aberration map of 200 separate areas of the cornea.