Custom Cornea®

The medical directors from Precision Lasik Group are happy to announce a new arrival in laser vision correction called CustomCornea®, a wavefront-guided LADARVision® excimer laser system. This revolutionary technology is helping to customize the treatment of traditional LASIK in order to achieve better visual results. Traditional LASIK surgery can provide excellent results in correcting a wide range of common vision problems like nearsightedness, farsightedness and astigmatism, however CustomCornea® or LADARWave™ will enable a more precise surgical procedure with respect to your individual cornea.

Why is CustomCornea® advantageous?

CustomCornea® is the first LASIK procedure to go beyond reshaping your cornea based on your prescription for eyeglasses or contacts. The procedure is completely customized to your eyes and your eyes alone. Secondly, CustomCornea® can help with other vision problems that could not be detected previously, known as higher order aberrations. Experts believe these aberrations can be responsible for vision problems like glare and halos in low-light conditions and at night.

Higher order aberrations cannot be treated by traditional laser vision correction procedures, or even by wearing glasses or contacts. CustomCornea® is the first and only laser vision correction procedure that's FDA approved to address higher order aberrations.

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HOW IT WORKS (Alcon, LADARVision)

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Capture – In this first step, the LADARWave™ wavefront device is used to capture your eyes’ unique combination of higher and lower aberrations. The device creates a wavefront map of each eye by shining an eye-safebeam of laser light into the eye by shining an eye-safe beam of laser light into the eye and measuring the reflected light waves as they pass through your visual system and exit the eye.

Match – In this second stage, a wavefront map fro each eye is input to the laser system, and converted to a guide for the laser. When both patient and doctor are ready for surgery to begin, the map is computer-matched with the eye’s exact position so the treatment is extremely precise. Since each eye has its own unique wavefront map, treatment with CustomCornea® is truly customized.

Treat – In this third step, the cornea is precisely reshaped using the LADARVision® 4000 excimer laser system guided by the data from the wavefront map. The treatment is designed to correct your unique profile of both lower and higher order aberrations at the same time.