Personalized Vision Correction

Personalized Vision Correction—Customized LASIK

When considering laser vision correction surgery, you want the best for your eyes: The best surgeon, the best care before and after treatment; and the best treatment system available.

For many patients, the treatment applied by any of our excimer laser will provide excellent vision. One type of treatment however, isn't right for everyone. Eyes are as individual as fingerprints and some patients have more complex vision problems than others. If your eyes have elevated levels of Higher Order Aberrations such as coma and spherical aberration, which are subtle optical imperfections above and beyond nearsightedness and astigmatism, you may benefit from treatment with wavefront-guided personalized vision correction.

The leaders in Laser Vision Correction

Dr. MacRae and the Flaum Eye Institute Refractive Surgery Center continues to be  instrumental in the development and refinement of customized LASIK. We were one of three practices who performed the 340 eye US FDA clinical trial for the Bausch + Lomb Zyoptix platform, which was based on a patented technology developed by scientists at the University of Rochester’s Center for Visual Science. Many of the concepts pioneered during this period are still in use across the world today, and Dr. MacRae remains an integral member of this still active scientific team.

Our standard pre-surgical evaluation will use technology to assess your higher order aberrations and optical quality and allow us to recommend if customized LASIK if it is right for you. Our continued research, using daily input from our dedicated Data Analysis Team, continues to improve our 20/20 outcomes which have been historically reported as among the best in the world.

Our Contura and iDesign systems allow Dr. Scott MacRae to create a precise map of both the inside and the outside surfaces each patient’s cornea, and using wavefront technology gives him the ability to measure the unique imperfections within each patient’s optics. These imperfections include higher-order aberrations, whose impact is noticeable under low-light conditions like driving at night, and contribute to visual disturbances such as reduced contrast sensitivity, glare or halos. Dr. MacRae and the Flaum Eye Institute Refractive Surgery Center team have proven that treatment of these subtle aberrations contributes to improved visual outcomes after laser vision correction surgery. 

Who Benefits from Personalized LASIK?

Wavefront customized LASIK may be appropriate for patients with naturally large pupils under dim light settings, patients with pre-existing night vision difficulties or problems driving at night, patients who have already had refractive surgery with quality of vision problems post treatment, or patients with pre-existing elevated higher order aberrations as determined at the pre-op evaluation. Wavefront personalized treatment is also an option for every patient with nearsightedness and/or astigmatism if their prescription is in the treatment range. Every patient seen at Flaum Eye Institute Refractive Surgery Center is evaluated for potential treatment with wavefront-guided personalized LASIK.