Home > What is LASIK? > Custom LASIKCustom LASIKCustom LASIK While conventional LASIK has been a complete revolution in vision correction, TLC Laser Eye Centers also offers the latest in laser vision correction technology: Custom LASIK. This is a laser vision correction procedure that enables your LASIK surgeon to further customize the conventional LASIK procedure to your individual eyes. This customized LASIK procedure may result in patients seeing clearer and sharper than ever before. FDA studies show that Custom LASIK may produce better vision than possible with contact lenses or glasses. Custom LASIK has been able to provide patients with:
• A greater chance of having 20/20 vision
• The potential for better vision than is possible with contacts or glasses
• Less incidence of glare and halos
Wavefront Technology With Custom LASIK, LASIK surgeons are able to focus on the quantity as well as the quality of your vision. Many patients who have had Custom LASIK are reporting the ability to see clearer than ever before. Custom LASIK uses a Wavefront Analyzer to measure the way light travels through your eye. The Wavefront Analyzer creates a customized 3-D map of your eye that looks at your entire optical system. This map provides information about the unique visual characteristics of your eye which adds an additional level of data about your vision, enabling your TLC LASIK surgeon to further customize your vision correction. This map that is created is then used to guide the laser during your LASIK laser vision correction procedure for optimal results.
Better Quality Vision
Clinical studies have shown that Custom LASIK may improve not only what you see but also how well you see it. In the past, all vision was measured using a standard vision chart. If you could see the letters, the eye doctor would use that measurement for how well you could see. Several types of visual imperfections, referred to as lower- and higher-order aberrations, exist within the eye and may affect your vision (the amount of these aberrations vary from person to person).
Previously, only lower-order aberrations (such as nearsightedness, farsightedness and astigmatism) could be measured and treated. Higher-order aberrations may also have a significant impact on vision and have been linked to glare and halos.
Now Custom LASIK may help to further customize your treatment of these higher-order aberrations that, in the past, could not be adequately treated with glasses, contacts or conventional LASIK treatments.
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