Denver Intralase lasik eye surgery

Intralase maybe better but it really depends upon your individual needs. During your free lasik consultation you will learn about which options you have for lasik. Icon LASIK Denver, owns more lasers than any other clinic in Colorado. This means your doctor will perform a complete vision exam and then determine which laser will result in the best surgical outcome for you. Where as some clinics may try and fit a laser to your eyes which simply will not produce the best results. Having the choice of several lasers ensures that you are getting the absolute best treatment possible. Intralase is one option, Wavefront custom lasik is another, and the NIDEK EC-5000 eye tracker is a third option. From these three options, your Icon LASIK Denver surgeon will come up with a customized treatment plan.

Since 2001, IntraLase has been used in nearly 1,000,000 LASIK procedures with no reports of serious sight-threatening complications. ICON Lasik in Denver has performed over 100,000 procedures using all types of laser eye surgery!*

Traditional corneal flap vs Intralase
For some surgeries, your doctor may elect to use a microkeratome to create the corneal flap. A microkeratome is a hand held surgical instrument which creates an incision in the cornea, thus creating the a corneal flap. The intralase bladeless lasik creates a laser incision. With intralase a blade is not necessary. Intralase wavefront lasik
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Intralase and traditional microkeratome are not painful.
Some patients may not be eligible for intralase lasik or lasik performed with a microkeratome. In that case, photo-refractive keratectomy (PRK) maybe necessary. To determine if you are a candidate for laser vision correction, it is necessary for you to come in for a free complete vision evaluation. If PRK is necessary, PRK is performed by scraping the surface of the cornea. PRK is more painful than LASIK yet produces comparable long term outcomes. Another type of surgery you may hear about is Epi-LASIK. EPI-LASIK uses an epikeratome which is a blunt separator creating a superficial flap.