How does wavefront-guided Custom LASIK work?
Conventional LASIK is based upon the patient’s eyeglass prescription. Custom LASIK takes into account not just the eyeglass prescription but also subtle irregularities in the way each individual’s eye focuses light. Two people can have the same eyeglass prescription, but no two people have the same wavefront map. In other words, with Custom LASIK more sophisticated measurements are used and a more precise correction is obtained. Some Custom LASIK patients even achieve better than 20/20 vision! Not all LASIK patients will benefit from custom cornea ablation. Custom LASIK is most valuable for those people with greater than average irregularities in their prescription. Only a doctor experienced in LASIK can determine the value of Custom LASIK for each individual person. Contrary to the old myth that “the laser does all the work in LASIK”, adding the more advanced technology of wavefront analysis requires even more surgical expertise and judgment than conventional LASIK. Now that Custom LA
