How does blade-free LASIK work?
Blade-free LASIK uses the precision of a laser instead of a blade. With traditional LASIK surgery, the oscillating blade of a microkeratome is used to create a flap in the cornea, which allows your physician to perform the LASIK procedure on the underlying tissue. With blade-free LASIK at Eye Associates of Wilmington, our physicians use a pulsed laser to precisely alter the tissue surrounding what will become the LASIK flap. This is done to a depth determined by your physician. The flap is then folded back and the LASIK procedure is performed.
