INTRALASE TECHNOLOGY
What is IntraLase?
IntraLase FS Laser System is one of the amazing pieces of technological equipment behind safe, effective Lasik surgery. The IntraLase Laser, supplied by Abbott Medical Optics, provides unprecedented biomechanical stability during Lasik surgery.
After a thorough evaluation where the specific measurements of the patient’s eyes are taken using Wavefront Lasik Technology, the patient undergoes the Lasik procedure. The first step in the Lasik surgery is for the surgeon to create a tiny, hinged flap on the surface of the cornea. This flap, once “opened”, allows the surgeon to have access to the inner cornea. The IntraLase laser uses bladeless, cool-laser light to precisely and thinly cut the flap. The next step, then, is for the surgeon to perform the actual laser vision correction using the VISX Star 4 Custom Excimer Laser.
For more details about the entire Lasik process and what to expect during your surgery, click Lasik Eye Surgery.
Why do we use IntraLase?
The computerized IntraLase laser system has been shown to create a superior corneal flap which is:
- Uniformly thin,
- Precisely centered,
- Accurately sized,
- Consistently smooth,
- and evenly hydrated.
These characteristics result in shorter recovery time and better visual outcomes for patients. The IntraLase Laser has been proven to provide safer Lasik surgery with less pain, less risk of infection, and fewer visual disturbances such as haze or glare sensitivity.
The IntraLase technology is a fourth-generation laser that has been put to the test with more than 1 million patients. Indeed, IntraLase is now considered by many to be integral to the Lasik process.
iLasik at Eye Center of Texas
IntraLase + Lasik = iLasik
The IntraLase Laser technology, though not available in all eye care facilities, has become almost synonymous with Lasik. In fact, iLasik has become a commonly used term for Lasik eye surgery using IntraLase Laser methodology and technology.
At the Eye Center of Texas, we are proud to offer the IntraLase cool-laser technology (iLasik) to our patients who are candidates for Lasik Eye Surgery. (To find out if you are a candidate for this safe, effective, and life-changing procedure, click here.)
We are committed to ensuring the very best possible outcomes for each of our patients. Selecting IntraLase Laser Technology to use in our eye center was simply the best choice in helping us fulfill our mission to provide personalized, comprehensive, high-quality eye care.
If you wear glasses or contacts and have considered a life without them, you owe it to yourself to explore the possibility of iLasik surgery. Thanks in part to the IntraLase technology, the procedure has never been safer.
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Featured Article:
The Highly Advanced IntraLase Method
[Posted on June 20]
No matter how ready you are for life without glasses/contacts, having LASIK is a big decision. You want to know that you are getting the most trusted LASIK procedure available. That’s why we only offer our patients the highly advanced IntraLase Method (iLASIK). And here’s another reason to be confident in the iLASIK procedure…the National Aeronautics and Space Agency (NASA) only allow this technology to be used on U.S. astronauts.
The NASA decision was made following review of extensive military clinical data using Advanced CustomVue LASIK with the IntraLase Method, which showed the combination of technologies provides superior safety and vision.
“Even your most-extreme lifestyle is nothing compared to being ejected from an F16 or the G-Forces of atmospheric blastoff,” said Dr. Edward Wade. “With today’s advanced LASIK technologies -- which feature the use of two lasers, instead of one as with earlier forms of the procedure -- patients can be confident that they will have improved vision, but also that the procedure has proven to be extremely safe as well.”
Approved for use on consumers almost a decade ago, more than 15 million LASIK procedures have been performed to-date, making it the most-common elective surgical procedure in the U.S. But it wasn’t until LASIK developed into an all-laser procedure that NASA approved it for use on pilots, mission and payload specialists who face extreme, physically demanding conditions in space.
TODAY’S ADVANCED LASIK USES ALL-LASER TECHNOLOGY
LASIK is a two-step procedure. In advanced LASIK, the computer guided, ultra-fast IntraLase FS (femtosecond) laser is used in the first step to create the corneal flap, virtually eliminating almost all of the most severe, sight threatening LASIK complications related to hand-held microkeratome blade historically used to create corneal flaps. The IntraLase FS laser also provides an optimal corneal surface below the flap, allowing better visual outcomes from the second step of the procedure.
In the second step of advanced LASIK, wavefront-guided technology maps, and then custom- patients today. corrects vision based upon the unique characteristics of an individual’s eye. This sophisticated measurement provides 25 times more precision than measurements using standard methods for glasses and contact lenses, taking patients to 20/20 vision and beyond.
Advanced CustomVue LASIK with the IntraLase Method
The Advanced CustomVue laser vision correction procedure stands in a class of its own with the broadest range of FDA-approved indications. When combined with the power and precision of the IntraLase Method, the Advanced CustomVue procedure represents the most-advanced LASIK procedure available to patients today.
Dr. Edward Wade of the Eye Center of Texas has performed over 40,000 LASIK procedures and has been named one of the Top LASIK surgeons in the U.S. Call the Eye Center of Texas at 713-395-1515 to schedule your FREE iLASIK evaluation.
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