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If you are one of the thousands of people who got LASIK surgery before 2003, then you had what is now known as traditional LASIK surgery. In 2003, a new technology emerged in the refractive surgery world called custom LASIK, or wavefront LASIK. This new technology has provided better tools for surgeons and better results for patients, and it is now available at a premium. Traditional LASIK surgery has about an 80 percent chance of providing patients with 20/20 vision. Often the correction is not precise enough to eliminate a patient's need for contacts or glasses. Perhaps more significantly for some, one complication of traditional LASIK is nighttime side effects like glare and halos. Until custom LASIK entered the market, little could be done about this problem. Today, however, wavefront technology has made measuring and correcting high order aberrations, such as nighttime glare or halos, a possibility.
What to Expect from Custom Wavefront LASIK
No laser eye surgery is 100 percent guaranteed, but wavefront LASIK is as close to that as it gets in refractive surgery. The doctors at Laser Eye Center of Silicon Valley are highly experienced with custom LASIK, called "personaLASIK" in their offices. If you choose to get custom wavefront LASIK either as an initial vision correction surgery or as a refinement to an older LASIK surgery, you should know what to expect. You can expect that your vision will be approximately 20/20 in visual acuity if you currently have a moderate refractive error. You can also expect your corrected vision to last longer than with traditional LASIK.
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