| Custom Wavefront LASIK Vision Correction |
| Written by John Taylor | |
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LASIK, PRK or Custom Wavefront Eye Surgery There are so many ways that you can get your eyes corrected. The traditional method is to wear glasses or contact lenses. While this is the most popular way to handle the situation, it is also the most annoying. Glasses are expensive, and to get them every few years can really eat away at your savings. The same thing goes for contacts. Not only that, but they are a hassle for how often you need them. There are other, surgical methods towards getting your eyes fixed. The most popular of these is LASIK eye surgery. Although it is a new technology, it's popularity has sky rocketed in recent years. More and more people are choosing to have this eye correction procedure done. What makes this surgery special is the machinery they use and how they use it. For instance, they use lasers to affect your cornea. But before they can do that, they use a machine or a laser to cut open the cornea, creating a flap. The flap that they create is what separates LASIK eye surgery with other, similar laser surgeries. Another laser eye surgery is PRK. This stands for photorefractive keratectomy. Instead of cutting open a flap in the cornea as they would with LASIK eye surgery, they use the laser on the outer layer of the cornea instead. This is helpful for people who have thin corneas and that would qualify for the LASIK eye correction surgery. PRK was actually one of the first methods of laser eye correction and continues to be popular today. While both of these methods are acceptable, it can be hard for eye doctors, even the most experienced ones, to know how to vaporize the cornea in order to make your vision perfect. Because of this, these surgeries have annoying side effects. Many patients see halos or haze for quite some time afterward. Some may not even be able to drive at night for a period either. Luckily, there is an alternative to these surgeries that is a lot more accurate and that does not have these annoying eye issues afterward. If you want to make sure that you get the best eye surgery that money can buy, you should try custom laser eye surgery. This is often called Wavefront LASIK. It works similarly to regular LASIK eye surgery, but with a few benefits. Instead of taking some standard measurements of your eyes, the eye doctors that use custom Wavefront LASIK will do more precise and computer automated readings of your eye. They will calculate how you see and use this to know how to reform your cornea. With this information, they then use a computer monitored laser that has precise movements. After a surgery like this, your eyesight will be even better than what you would get from the other kinds of laser eye surgeries. You also won't have the nasty side effects like halos and bad night vision. There are so many different kinds of eye surgery that you can choose from. The best of these is LASIK, PRK, and custom Wavefront. What you choose depends on what your regular eye doctor recommends, as well as your budget. Custom Wavefront LASIK is more expensive, so keep that in mind if you are considering it as an option. A lot of people think that the higher price is worth it because of the amazing results. Still, like with all laser eye surgeries, there is still a lot that they don't know about the long term results of the surgery. You should only do this if you are willing to take a risk. |
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