Considering Custom Lasik? Learn More About This Treatment

Custom LASIK is another name for Wavefront-guided LASIK. FDA guidelines exist for the use of custom LASIK. The eye surgeon will be concerned about how thick your cornea is. Custom LASIK can be effective if your nearsightedness, farsightedness, and astigmatism fall within a range that goes from mild to moderately high. The eye surgeon will also be looking for other irregularities and visual aberrations.

Why should I consider custom LASIK?
Some peoples eyes are more irregular than others; if you are one of them, this can affect the ability of a surgeon to improve your vision. If your eyes have irregularities, the result might be less-effective vision correction, such as an inability to see contrast well, and problems with your night vision. You might also experience significant glare problems and haloes. With Wavefront-guided LASIK, however, the surgeon uses a ray of light to check your ability to focus light rays and prepare a three-dimensional map of the eyes before the surgery. The map allows the surgeon to modify and guide the surgery so that it takes into account your specific situation.

One of the most exciting aspects of custom LASIK surgery is that it might be able to improve not just how much you see, but also how well you see. This is something that glasses and contacts cannot do. For example, if you have a hard time seeing when the light is dim, glasses wont help. Custom LASIK surgery might. Custom LASIK surgery is also useful in cases where you may have had surgery on your eyes before, and in many cases it appears to give a better result than if conventional LASIK surgery is used. As a result, eye surgeons often currently prefer to use it when possible.

What else should I know?
Custom LASIK can be more expensive than conventional LASIK surgery because eye surgeons have to pay the equipments manufacturers a fee every time they use it to correct someones vision. You should also be aware that this is developing technology: surgeons are researching whether they can correct problems such as severe nearsightedness, and they are also trying to use it to create an alternative to monovision, so that people with older eyes who have developed presbyopia will be able to focus at the same time on objects that are near or far, just as they did when they were younger.