Customised LASIK is the newest FDA-approved procedure as an advancement over conventional LASIK. It provides your doctor with the tools to precisely measure your specific optical pathway, like a "fingerprint" of your vision. This custom "fingerprint" enables your eye surgeon to customize the LASIK procedure to your unique visual requirements.

This Wavefront technology provides an additional level of precise data about your eye to truly personalize your vision correction. A device called a wavefront analyzer measures the way light travels through your optical pathway and compares it to the way light travels through an optically perfect eye. This device then creates a map of the detected irregularities of the visual system. This map displays irregularities that cannot be measured any other way.

Several types of visual imperfections, referred to as lower- and higher-order aberrations, exist within the eye and can affect both visual acuity and the quality of vision. To date, only lower-order aberrations (such as nearsightedness, farsightedness, and astigmatism) could be measured and treated. But these irregularities do not account for all potential vision imperfections. Higher-order aberrations can also have a significant impact on one's quality of vision and are often linked to visual glare and halos that may cause night vision problems. Higher-order aberrations cannot be corrected with glasses, contact lenses or conventional LASIK treatments.

Using wavefront technology  to generate a detailed, personalized map of your unique vision, surgeons now have the diagnostic tools to measure and ultimately correct both lower- and higher-order aberrations. This information can be used by surgeons to either optimize traditional LASIK or treat patients with Customised LASIK.

Conventional LASIK is very successful. It appears that Custom LASIK significantly increases the number of patients who may achieve 20/20 or better vision and/or may perceive better quality of vision.