What is the IntraLase Method?
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The IntraLase® Method is a 100% blade-free approach to creating your LASIK flap — the thin flap of tissue that the doctor folds back in order to perform your LASIK procedure. The IntraLase® Method can only be performed using the IntraLase® Laser.
Traditionally, doctors have used an instrument called a microkeratome for the creation of LASIK flaps. The microkeratome is a hand-held blade that moves across the eye, cutting the LASIK flap as it goes. LASIK is extremely safe, but if complications do occur, the microkeratome is frequently the cause.
The IntraLase® Method, by contrast, enables your doctor to create an individualized LASIK flap without a blade ever touching your eye.
How does it work?
With the IntraLase® Method, tiny pulses of laser light, a quadrillionth of a second each, pass harmlessly through the outer portion of your cornea and form a uniform layer of microscopic bubbles just beneath the surface of your eye.
The exact dimensions of this layer of bubbles are determined by your doctor based on what’s best for your eye, and are computer controlled for maximum precision — things that are not possible with a handheld blade. The IntraLase® flap creation process takes about 15 to 20 seconds per eye and a total of 10 minutes for the entire LASIK procedure.
When it’s time for your LASIK treatment to be performed, your doctor easily lifts the flap to apply the LASIK treatment. When LASIK is complete, a flap created using the IntraLase® Method is uniquely able to “lock” back into place. Your eye then begins to rapidly heal.
Is it Right For Me?
Utilizing pulsed energy, the IntraLase® laser creates minute pockets of air inside the cornea in pre-determined spots as it moves back and forth across the eye. The bubbles begin to form a perforation, which results in a corneal flap. The IntraLase® provides a level of precision not possible with a traditional surgical blade.
What else should I know?
It’s preferred by patients.
In a clinical survey of LASIK patients who had their LASIK flaps created using a blade in one eye and the IntraLase® Method in the other, the vision in the IntraLase®-treated eye was preferred 3-to-1 (among those who stated a preference).
It’s safe and trusted.
Millions of procedures have been performed safely and effectively using the IntraLase Method.
It’s the most advanced treatment there is.
The IntraLase® Method gives your doctor an extremely high degree of surgical control for exceptional outcomes.
Ultimately, the 100% blade-free IntraLase® Method gives patients more confidence and less anxiety going in for LASIK treatment, and excellent vision coming out. No matter how ready you are for life without lenses, the decision to have LASIK is a big one. You want to know for certain that you’re getting a safe and trusted treatment.
That’s exactly why our practice offers an advanced approach to LASIK called the IntraLase® Method. With the IntraLase® Method, you can have a LASIK procedure that’s 100% blade-free, exceptionally advanced, and has been shown to improve outcomes for more patients.
For more information about our numerous refractive surgery options or alternatives, or to schedule a consultation in Houston, Texas, please reach out to the friendly staff at Watkins Eye Center. We would be happy to walk you through the ways in which Dr. Watkins can correct your vision.
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