HOW REFRACTIVE SURGERY HAS CHANGED In 1999, scientists developed wavefront analysis – technology that maps a patient’s prescription, creating a corneal map as unique as a fingerprint. Amazing! As researchers and developers learned to marry wavefront analysis data with the excimer laser, the result was a truly customized procedure with greatly improved results. Wavefront analysis for LASIK gained FDA approval in the U.S. in 2002. During this same year, LASIK became the world’s most common elective procedure. LASIK quickly became a household name as ads flooded the market and more than a million procedures were performed in the U.S. each year. WHY IT’S SO MUCH BETTER NOW Technology always continues to push forward in every industry and laser vision correction is no exception. Today, most LASIK procedures are 100% bladeless. With blade-free LASIK, a femtosecond laser (rather than a blade) is used to create a corneal flap at the precise depth and diameter desired by the surgeon. Advances in LASIK technology have provided a platform for: • More effective results • Accuracy of visual outcomes • Improved understanding of who makes a good candidate The future of this simple, yet life-changing, procedure is even brighter now than it was for the trail-blazing innovators along the way. Frantz EyeCare continues to maintain a commitment to provide the best and safest new technology available to our patients. FUN FACT Your retinas actually perceive the outside world as upside-down – your brain flips the image for you. If you want to see the world as your retinas do, try a pair of prism glasses. Just don’t, you know, drive or operate heavy machinery while wearing them! 5