The Iowa Eye Center is proud to provide our patients with the latest technology. As surgeons, we want to ensure that you get the safest, most effective treatment for your precious eyesight.

The Iowa Eye Center is dedicated to the latest technology including Custom Wavefront Lasik. 

Wavefront-guided Lasik is a promising new technology that provides an advanced method for measuring optical distortions in the eye.  Measuring and treating these distortions goes beyond nearsighted, farsighted, and astigmatism determinations that have been used for centuries.  This is the technology that allows optical engineers to design high quality camera lenses and repair the Hubble telescope.  As result, physicians can now customize the LASIK procedure according to each individual patient's unique vision correction needs.  The treatment is unique to each eye, just as a fingerprint is unique.  Wavefront systems work by measuring how light beams are distorted as they pass into the eye and then are reflected back.  This creates an optical map of the eye, highlighting individual imperfections. 

Wavefront technology functions as a roadmap for LASIK surgery, providing benefits to the patient during both the evaluation and treatment process.

During the patient evaluation process, wavefront provides the physician comprehensive individual diagnostic information, not available using earlier technologies.  Thus, before surgery even begins, the surgeon is better able to determine the appropriate course of treatment. 

During the treatment, wavefront allows the surgeon to tailor the laser beam settings, making the surgical procedure itself more precise.  In this way, wavefront technology offers the patients sharper, crisper, better quality vision, as well as a reduction in nighttime vision difficulties, such as halos and glare.

Wavefront technology is an adjunct tool used to enhance an already safe and effective procedure.  As the most common form of vision correction surgery, LASIK has already benefited millions of patients.  The increased safety and the improved quality of vision benefits of customized procedures are an important technological advancement for patients and physicians alike.

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