Refractive Surgery Blog

I have been performing Intralasik or Ilasik for about a year and a half. A review of the results was just completed and they were impressive. To this point in time, of the first several hundred eyes operated on using this technology, there were no re-treatments needed. All patients had results that either hit or were very close to the target refraction. In addition, there were no flap or other complications.

To put this in perspective, using the "traditional" technology, microkeratome associated lasik flap complications occurred at a rate of about one percent. While this complication rate does not seem to be high, it can be inconvenient at best and cause the loss of best corrected vision at worst when it occurs. Traditionally performed lasik (when Customvue technology was not employed) had a re-treatment rate of nearly three percent. And, when the combination of the Intralase femtosecond laser and wavefront technology was used, it was better in almost every case - especially with night vision improvement.

I-lasik has been a real advancement in both the safety and visual results categories. While the improvements seem to be only incrementally better, we are continuing to strive for refractive visual perfection.

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