Medical Technology

We live in a time of seemingly endless innovation and rapid technological progress. It is quite difficult to see the latest e-mail filtering and mobile phone video camera, much less follow specialized medical procedures such as LASIK surgery.

But considering laser vision correction of any kind – LASIK popular and effective, or if you are not a good candidate for LASEK or PRK as an alternative – it’s just a passing interest issue. It is your responsibility to inform, prepare patients for each type of surgery, if you learn the latest LASIK technology used in LASIK surgery as part of this preparation must.

The best doctors and hospitals want the best possible result for their LASIK patients, which often means to ensure that not one but several types of devices. There are technologies that are equipped better suited for certain conditions as other patients, so many practices with several examples of the art equipment is available.

There are at least five or six types of equipment for laser eye surgery extensively in the field today and are constantly evolving. Medical research and technology continue to make breakthroughs, and improve maintenance of quality of life, and in recent years have been particularly good for the advancement of LASIK treatment.

The WaveScan (TM) Wavefront ® system used by many surgeons LASIK works by creating a “map” of how the visual system as a whole, recognized the processes of light shows. The result is something like a “fingerprint” profile of each eye, one vision, which means that each of your eyes to their own shortcomings in LASIK surgery can be treated, means.

The VISX ® Star S4 (TM) laser, according to many of his followers, brings a new standard of accuracy in the laser vision correction with a combination of two different systems, such as variable spot scanning and 3D ActiveTrak ®. Calibrated with a laser at 0.25 micron, this hybrid system astonishing accuracy, and can have multiple constraints that were previously out of reach of other technologies to treat. (By comparison, human hair is 60-80 microns in diameter).

CustomVue (TM) profile corresponds to a specially created (again, a kind of “fingerprint”) in your vision of an “ideal” of the optical system. Again, with the VISX ® Star S4 (TM) laser, which provides accurate profile data, unique custom LASIK surgery. If you are one of the special LASIK patients who are for this type of procedure in question permits CustomVue (TM), the surgeon to eliminate microscopic defects in your vision can not be corrected with either glasses or contact lenses.