What is a WaveScan?

Written by Richard Schulze on July 19, 2016. Posted in Blog

A WaveScan is a computerized device that we use to create a  “fingerprint” of your vision prior to having surgery with LASIK or PRK with the AMO/VISX Star S4 IR excimer laser.  Although other people may have the same refraction as you, your WaveScan is unique to you.  This technology allows us to capture your refraction, including higher order aberrations, and to upload your diagnostic data to the computer that drives the laser.  Because the laser has iris recognition technology (called “iris registration” or “IR”), the laser will know the difference between your right and left eye (thus eliminating the possibility of wrong site surgery) and, after locking onto your eye, will deliver a customized treatment in the exact spot where the diagnostic data were acquired.

Carrying on our tradition of innovation in eye surgery, the Schulze Surgery Center was the first center in coastal Georgia to offer this technology.  Using the WaveScan together with our AMO/VISX Star S4 IR excimer laser allows us to offer truly customized wavefront guided LASIK and PRK, called CustomVue.  

Data submitted to the FDA for CustomVue LASIK found the following:

• 4x as many participants in the low to moderate myopia clinical study were very satisfied with their night vision after the Advanced CustomVue Procedure, compared to their night vision before with glasses or contact lenses
• 4x as many participants in the hyperopia clinical study were very satisfied with their night vision after the Advanced CustomVue Procedure, compared to their night vision before with glasses or contact lenses
• Nearly 2x as many participants in the mixed astigmatism clinical study were very satisfied with their night vision after the Advanced CustomVue Procedure, compared to their night vision before with glasses or contact lenses
• 90% of patients surveyed in the high myopia clinical study were more satisfied, or as satisfied with their vision after the Advanced CustomVue Procedure as they were before with glasses or contact lenses

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What is LASIK?

Written by Richard Schulze on July 18, 2016. Posted in Blog

LASIK is an acronym for “laser assisted in situ keratomileusis.”  The procedure uses the excimer laser to reshape the cornea so as to correct your nearsightedness, farsightedness, and astigmatism.  With LASIK, the laser reshapes the cornea underneath a corneal flap (think of the flap as being like a trap door on the surface of the cornea) allowing  for quicker healing with less pain.  In fact, most of our LASIK patients are back to their normal activities the day after surgery.

Our practice began performing LASIK back in 1997.  Not everyone is a candidate for LASIK, but for those who aren’t, we also perform other refractive procedures such as the ICL and Refractive Lens Exchange 

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