Ask Your Doctor About Wavefront LASIK

If you've been considering have laser eye surgery to correct your vision and you have been told that you're not a good candidate for traditional LASIK surgery; ask your doctor if you may possibly be a candidate for Wavefront LASIK.

Wavefront LASIK eye surgery is a procedure that has enabled individuals that haven't been able to qualify for traditional LASIK surgery due to corneas that are too thin for the initial flap that must be cut into the cornea or other people aren't candidates simply because they have too many anomalies on their eyes to correct. Wavefront can help your doctor give you better results than with traditional LASIK as well as address the specific anomalies that are exclusive to the individual shape of the surface of your eyes.

The way that Wavefront works is very elementary. The process of Wavefront gives your doctor a full view of your eye by letting him or her see not only an interior view of the eye but also an exterior microscopic view of your eye. This means your surgeon can exactly target only the areas that need to be corrected so no unnecessary cuts are made, no unnecessary tissue is excised and because of the complete customization of this procedure, patients have a much higher success rate of attaining perfect vision after utilizing Wavefront.

Although Wavefront has been in use since 2002, many surgeons didn't embrace the technology for a few years and Wavefront didn't really gain popularity among the LASIK community until around 2006. Over the last few years, Wavefront has continued to grow as a procedure of choice and next to traditional LASIK, is one of the most common vision correction technologies used today.

The drawback for Wavefront is that it can be almost twice as expensive as having traditional LASIK surgery and insurance most often won't cover much if any part of the procedure. However, if you've been told you aren't a candidate for traditional LASIK, ask your doctor if the Wavefront procedure is an option that you can use to improve your vision.