About IntraLase
IntraLase is the first blade-free laser technology for performing the first step of the LASIK procedure: creating the corneal flap.
Prior to IntraLase, this first step was done manually using a hand-held device with an oscillating metal razor blade, called a microkeratome. While LASIK has proven to be a successful and relatively safe procedure, the majority of complications with LASIK arise from the use of microkeratomes.
IntraLase makes LASIK safer by replacing the hand-held microkeratome blade with the silent computer-guided precision of a laser, virtually eliminating severe sight-threatening blade-related LASIK complications as a result.
IntraLase delivers micron-level accuracy more than 100 times greater than a microkeratome.
- Enhanced Safety
- Enhanced Precision
- Increased Correction Range
- Virtually Eliminates Flap Problems
Advantages of IntraLase
- Improved Safety
- Better Vision
- Fewer Retreatments
- Reduced Dry Eye Symptoms
- Highest Degree of Predictability and Precision
- Personalized flaps
- Fewer high- and low-order aberrations, which can be associated with night glare and halos
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Data/Statistics:
When given a choice, 78 percent of patients choose IntraLase-initiated LASIK rather than the blade.
In clinical trials, 98 percent of IntraLase-initiated LASIK eyes achieved 20/20 or better vision. Clinical trial patients who had IntraLase on one eye and the blade on the other preferred the vision of their IntraLase-treated eye 3-to-1 over their blade-treated eye (those with a stated preference).
Clinical trial tests performed to diagnose dry eye show IntraLase reduces symptoms as much as 72 percent.
About LASIK:
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LASIK is the nation's most-popular vision correction procedure, representing 88 percent of all refractive procedures performed annually.
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8.2 million LASIK procedures have been performed since the mid-1990's.
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While most commonly associated with the excimer laser, LASIK is not an "all-laser" procedure due to the use of the microkeratome blade.
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Only LASIK procedures that use IntraLase for the first step can be considered "all-laser."
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