All About Wavefront Lasik - By: Alice Shown

According to the AAO 2009 Eye Health Statistics at a Glance report, about 700,000 Lasik procedures are performed in the United States annually. Wavefront Lasik is one of the latest and most advanced methods of treating refractive errors. Obviously, eyeglasses and lenses are still the most common method of eye treatment for myopia (nearsightedness), Hyperopia (farsightedness), Astigmatism and Presbyopia (age-related farsightedness). However, with Lasik technology advancing with leaps and bounds and the introduction of Wavefront Lasik, more people are willing to get laser treatments done for eye correction.

Benefits of Wavefront Lasik

Wavefront Lasik is different and highly advanced as compared to Lasik and PRK because it lets the surgeon map your eye and hence perform a much more accurate surgery for an optically perfect eye. With this new technology, each eye can be corrected as per its unique visual characteristics and specific prescription.

Some of the benefits of Wavefront Lasik are:

1. With Wavefront Lasik, there is a greater chance of achieving a perfect 20/20 vision. With other methods that came before this, the chances of achieving perfect eyesight are less in comparison.

2. It also boasts of fewer complications after the surgery. Usually, after a laser surgery, the complications that the patient may experience include glaring, halos, blurred vision, loss of vision, inaccurate night vision, dry eyes, temporary benefits and contraction of eye infections. The chances of these are reduced manifold with Wavefront Lasik.

3. Along with perfect eyesight the quality of the vision also improves with this technology, unlike PRK and Lasik.

4. Wavefront Lasik can also be used for correcting eyesight of those who have been operated on before using older technologies and have suffered side effects.

5. Using this technology it is possible to correct large pupils as well, unlike with older technologies.

6. Wavefront is most appropriate for people with thin corneas.

7. Patients with high prescriptions can be treated and their vision can be corrected using Wavefront. Usually high prescription patients are not considered good candidates for an eye surgery in case of older technologies.

With some of the most experienced and highly skilled eye surgeons and the latest equipment for eye surgery, 2020eyesite.com is a preferred option for patients looking to get their eyesight corrected.

About the Author

Laser Eye Center of Silicon Valley offers custom Wavefront Lasik technology, which is the most advanced vision correction technology.

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