INTRALASE
About IntraLase:
IntraLase is the first laser to replace the oscillating hand-held razor blade historically used in LASIK for creating the corneal flap. Nationally, complications from this device – called a microkeratome -- occur in up to 10 percent of all LASIK procedures.
The IntraLase laser significantly reduces these risks. IntraLase not only makes LASIK safer, but provides better vision.
Advantages of IntraLase:
IntraLase is the first laser to replace the oscillating hand-held razor blade historically used in LASIK for creating the corneal flap. Nationally, complications from this device – called a microkeratome -- occur in up to 10 percent of all LASIK procedures.
The IntraLase laser significantly reduces these risks. IntraLase not only makes LASIK safer, but provides better vision.
Advantages of IntraLase:
- Improved Safety
- IntraLase virtually eliminates the majority of LASIK complications, including those considered to be sight-threatening.
- Better Vision
- In clinical trials, 98 percent of IntraLase-initiated LASIK patients achieved 20/20 or better vision.
- Clinical trial patients preferred the vision of their IntraLase-treated eye 3-to-1 over their blade-treated eye (those with a stated preference).
- WHY the Better Vision?
- A Consistently hydrated bed allows for a more accurate excimer treatment.
- Less epithelial abrasions means better patient comfort and fewer complications = better vision.
- Fewer induced aberrations (night glare & halos) = better vision.
- Highest Degree of Predictability and Precision
- Perfectly uniform shaped flap as compared to the meniscus shape flap produced by the microkeratome (Data supported with Artemis high resolution 3D images)
- Reduced Dry Eye Symptoms
- Clinical trial tests performed to diagnose dry eye show IntraLase reduces symptoms as much as 72 percent.
- Fewer Retreatments
- Unlike the microkeratome blade, which cuts across the cornea to create the flap, IntraLase creates the flap from below the surface of the cornea.
- A beam of laser light focused to a precise point within the cornea, where a string of microscopic bubbles is formed.
- Thousands of these bubbles are precisely positioned to define the flap’s dimensions and distinct beveled edge, as well as location of the hinge.
- Bubbles are then stacked along the edge of the flap up to the corneal surface to complete the flap.
- The process from start to finish takes approximately 45 seconds.
- The surgeon then lifts the corneal flap to allow for treatment by the excimer laser. When treatment is complete, the flap is accurately repositioned, thanks to its beveled edge.