Seneca Eye Surgeons, Inc.

Wavefront-guided Laser Vision Correction

Wavefront-guided laser vision correction is a variation of vision correction surgery where, rather than applying a simple correction of focusing power to the cornea, an ophthalmologist applies a spatially varying correction, guiding the computer-controlled excimer laser with measurements from a wavefront sensor. The goal is to achieve a more optically perfect eye, though the final result still depends on the physician's success at predicting changes which occur during healing. In older patients though, scattering from microscopic particles plays a major role and may exceed any benefit from wavefront correction. Hence, patients expecting so-called "super vision" from such procedures may be disappointed. However, while unproven, surgeons claim patients are generally more satisfied with this technique than with previous methods, particularly regarding lowered incidence of "halos", the visual artifact caused byspherical aberration induced in the eye by earlier methods.