ALLEGRETTO WAVE Excimer Laser - the only laser developed specifically for custom LASIK providing superior clinical results, with the speed and precision necessary to take advantage of the promise of wave front technology.

Expanding the possibilities of the refractive laser, the ALLEGRETTO WAVE incorporates features which ensure speed and precision in spherical, astigmatic and customized correction.

The ALLEGRETTO WAVE Excimer Laser brings new capabilities to the refractive surgeon, including the ability to correct higher order aberrations. The small diameter of the laser treatment beam combined with high-speed scanning capability allows for the correction of spherocylinder refractive errors and higher order aberrations in a single step.

Using the ALLEGRETTO WAVE Excimer Laser, Wave Light provides the newest technology in a small footprint design. Fewer optical surfaces and reduced gas consumption mean lower cost per procedure, which was the primary design goal for this office based refractive laser.

Wave front optimized and true optical zones
The wave front optimized monogram allows for large true optical zones and excellent mesopic vision after treatment

Beyond 20/20 with Wavefront Technology LASIK

The next revolution in LASIK laser vision correction surgery are customized treatments, developing individualized software treatment plans for each patient, based upon the very unique shape and visual characteristics of that person's eye. Custom LASIK involves creating a truly sophisticated corneal map o f the eye and then combining that with an analysis of the visual system of the eye utilizing Wavefront technology. Wavefront technology utilizes a visual Wavefront analy
zer or aberrometer to study the way your eye bends light rays to improve your visual qua lity potential.

The Potential Benefits of ALLEGRETTO - the third generation machine

Greater chance of achieving 20/20 vision
Greater chance of achieving better than 20/20 vision
Reduced chance of losing best corrected vision
Reduced chance of losing visual quality or contrast sensitivity
Reduced chance of night vision disturbances and glare y.
Increased ability to restore best corrected vision
Custom LASIK not only improves the potential for 20/20 vision, it has the potential to restore eyes to better than 20/20 vision. The visual system is act ually capable of seeing 20/10 or better, that is letters twice as small as the 20/20 letters on an eyechart. Most people cannot see beyond 20/20 because of very subtle imperfection s within their visual system. Wavefront technology allows the surgeon to first map these subtle visual imperfections and then develop a laser treatment plan to correct t hem. The first patients ever treated worldwide with Custom LASIK were in July 1999. Using Wavefront technology in the European trials a high percentage of patients treated with Custom LASIK were able to achieve better than 20/20 vision, and even those that did not, still appreciated improvements in their night vision and contrast sensitivity.

"Custom LASIK utilizes Wavefront technology to correct not only t he prescription of the eye but to treat any subtle imperfections within the visual system to improve both the safety and visual outcome potential for patients."

Custom LASIK takes into account the curvature and smoothness of ea ch cornea, the thickness of the cornea, any astigmatism and the pattern of that astigmatism , and an individuals pupil size. Wavefront technology analyzes the entire visual system from the corneal surface through the crystalline lens of the eye, all the way back to the r etina. It actually looks at the whole eye and the way in which that eye sees the world to d evelop a truly personalized laser treatment plan. Wavefront analysis occurs acros s the entire 6mm optical center and represents a far more detailed assessment of the visual system, optimizing any imperfections to create the most ideal laser vision correction tre atment pattern specific for that individual. Therefore, Wavefront technology not only prov ides more precise information for the treatment plan but far more information than e ver before across several hundred points within the central vision zone to be treated.

Currently, all patients with - 4.00 diopters of myopia, for exarnpl e, are treated with a standard LASIK program for that degree of nearsightedness. However , each patient may differ in their precise corneal shape, their corneal thickness and their pupil size, as well as any number of other variables not accounted for routinely in standard LASIK programs. While standard LASIK programs work wonderfully, the advantages of Custom LASIK cannot be overstated. Custom LASIK will create the ideal pattern for each patienfc taking a multitude of variables into account. Instead of utilizing just the informal! on from your prescription and a single central reading of a corneal curvature map. Custom LA SIK analyzes the entire visual system and develops a Wavefront Map that truly analyzes the cornea and visual system across hundreds and hundreds of points within the central vision z one. Each point mapped then guides the laser beam to provide the most ideal vision correction profile.