Dr. William Boothe Lasik Surgery

Wavefront LASIK Surgery

The most recent step forward in LASIK surgery was in 2002, when the FDA approved a procedure called Wavefront LASIK Surgery. It has so far approved 3 such systems.

In Wavefront LASIK Surgery - sometimes called "Custom LASIK" - a computerized device beams a light at each eye, which lands on the retina. Then it rebounds to a sensor which tracks the irregularities of the front of the light wave as it comes from the eye. Using this information, the computer program makes a 3-D map of the precise shape of the person’s cornea.

The LASIK surgeon translates this map of wavefront data into a mathematical formula on the computer and from that, programs corrections into the excimer laser.

The laser is thus guided in vaporizing tiny amounts of eye tissue to reshape the cornea, and in this way, the eye’s refractive errors are corrected.

Advantages of Wavefront LASIK Surgery

This type of LASIK surgery can correct what’s called higher order aberrations (haloes, glare and blurry images), as well as the lower order aberrations (astigmatism, short-sightedness and long-sightedness).

The results are also a little more predictable than those of traditional LASIK surgery. And further, studies done so far suggest that over 90% of people who have Wavefront LASIK Surgery achieve 20/20 vision, as compared with less than 80% of people who have traditional LASIK surgery.