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There are two important steps to LASIK
eye surgery.
In Step One, your doctor creates a micro-thin flap of tissue
on the outer layer of your eye, also known as the cornea. The
flap is important for rapid healing, greater comfort and better
vision. If it is too thick, too thin, or irregular, it could affect
the quality of your vision. Although complications with LASIK
surgery are rare, when they do occur, they are often associated
with the use of a hand-held microkeratome blade in Step One.
IntraLase makes LASIK surgery better by replacing your doctor’s
hand-held microkeratome blade with a computer-guided laser that
delivers micron-level accuracy over 100 percent greater than a
microkeratome.* This gives you the greater assurance you need
that Step One of LASIK eye surgery will be accurate, safe and
a first step towards giving you the best LASIK result possible.
In Step Two, your doctor folds open the flap so that an
excimer laser can be used on the inner cornea to correct your
vision. Your flap is then returned to its original position where
it seals without stitches.
Create the corneal flap. |
Reshape the cornea. |
Step One is important to faster healing, greater comfort and
better vision.
The INTRALASE® laser is a more precise and safer method for
creating the flap in Step One and is an essential component to
making both standard and custom LASIK surgeries better.
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Ming Wang,
M.D., Ph.D.: Femtosecond technology: Is now the time to
buy? Refractive Eyecare for Ophthalmologists, May 2003;5:7.
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In Step One a micro-thin flap is created. Thousands
of laser pulse bubbles are connected together in a raster pattern
to separate the flap from the cornea.
LASIK
LASIK stands for Laser-Assisted In Situ Keratomileusis (ker-a-toe-my-loosis)
and is a two-step procedure that reshapes your cornea to allow
light to properly focus on the retina.
Standard LASIK
Standard LASIK corrects for conventional vision errors, such
as nearsightedness, farsightedness and astigmatism.
Custom LASIK
Custom LASIK uses “wavefront” technology to map specific
vision problems. Mapping allows your doctor to treat nearsightedness,
farsightedness, astigmatism, and irregularities unique to each
eye that could not previously be diagnosed.
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