Wavefront Lasik Info

When you go to the opththamologist or optometrist to have you eyes checked, they will do examinations with eye charts and phoropter. With the eye charts, the eye specialist will ask you to read the letters one by and and you’ll tell them if you see the letters clearly or not. With the phoropter, they will put different lenses on you and you will tell them which among the lenses you think your eyes need. The technology used in wavefront lasik might completely make these two ways of examining your eyes obsolete.

The traditional technologies of analyzing your vision problems are very subjective. Patients can read the letters but the eye experts don’t know how blurred the letters are to the patients. The patients tell them if the lenses are right for them. In short, it is based on what the patients think they are need and not what actually they are seeing.

With wavefront technology, a light is passed to your eyes which will scientifically and accurately tell what about your eyes is giving you vision problems. The light waves that travel through the eyes during a wavefront examination will tell you if the problem lies in the shape of your eyes (too long or too short) or the way your eyes are places in the axis.

The same technology is used in wavefront lasik. The procedure is the same with traditional lasik eye surgery and wavefront lasik eye surgery. The only difference is that the latter uses the superior technology of wavefront.