Wavefront Lasik & PRK for Astigmatism Long Island, New York, Brooklyn & Queens By Marc Werner MD

www.StahlEyeCenter.com

Have you been thinking that you have astigmatism and cannot have laser vision correction? This article will make you see the truth clearly!

In order to see clearly, light from whatever you are viewing must be clearly focused on the back of the eye. In astigmatism, the front of the eye is not perfectly round, so light focuses on multiple points on the retina.

Glasses and contact lenses sit in front of the eye and compensate for one's astigmatism. Lasik and PRK, the two most common forms of laser vision correction offer the ability to cure astigmatism by reshaping the cornea, the very front of the eye, and rendering it more spherical. It is a common misconception that astigmastism could not be corrected by the laser; in fact, the laser corrects that and more!

Wavefront treatments on the Visx Star S4 laser are one of the most accurate ways to correct astigmatism. The wavefront analyzer shines a light into the eye and measures how the eye bends that light. This provides the eye doctor with an extremely sensitive measurement of a patients nearsightedness, farsightedness AND astigmatism. These problems that most eyes have are collectively called lower order aberrations. In addition to measuring those lower order aberrations, the laser also measures other imperfections that all eyes have such as spherical aberration, trefoil and coma, so called higher order aberrations.

This information is then stored and transferred from the wavefront analyzer to the VISX Star S4 excimer laser for treatment. Because of this technology, the eye surgeon is able to treat a patient´s lower and higher order aberrations . Many patients in the FDA trials who underwent this treatment, therefore, achieved better than 20/20 vision (up to 70% of the patients received 20/15 vision !

To see if you're a candidate for this exciting technology, you can visit our website at www.StahlEyeCenter.com , or call us at 1-(888) 55- SIGHT.