What Is WaveFront And How Does It Work?

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"WaveFront was developed by NASA to treat the imperfections in the Hubble Space Telescope," Dr. Chynn explains. Basically, many points of light are shone into your eye, pass through your entire optical pathway, and are reflected back, captured, and the deviations from perfection mapped out. People say the result is like a fingerprint of your eye, since no two people have identical WaveFront maps--even the two eyes are always different!

"This results in better vision than with standard, non-WaveFront treatment, which puts a uniform correction across your entire cornea, even though we know that nobody's visual pathway is perfectly uniform."

"I was the 1st surgeon in NYC to routinely combine WaveFront with No-Flap LASEK. This makes sense, as the WaveFront map is captured and saved on the computer before any flap is made, and making a flap causes higher-order aberrations, so capturing the treatment flap before inducing additional aberrations by making a flap is nonsensical!" Dr. Chynn exclaims. "In my hands, over 50% of my patients who elect to have WaveFront + LASEK are seeing better than 20/20 afterwards--remarkable!"

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