The IntraLase® Method for all Laser LASIK Eye Surgery

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We know the decision to have LASIK surgery is a big one, so we take great care to determine what’s best for you as our patient. That’s why we offer blade-free LASIK treatment using the IntraLase method.

With the IntraLase method, pulses of laser light create your corneal flap, which is then lifted so the next step of LASIK—the reshaping of your cornea—can be performed. When your LASIK treatment is over, the flap is securely repositioned into place. This bladeless, computer-guided technology is 100% more accurate than most of the mechanical microkeratomes (hand-held devices with a thin metal blade) that surgeons may also use to create a corneal flap.1
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Assurance and Comfort

The IntraLase method has been used successfully on hundreds of thousands of eyes and we trust this advanced technology to deliver exceptional results. Our commitment is to provide you with the ultimate in comfort, safety, and outstanding vision. LASIK with IntraLase can help you achieve all of this—while it delivers the added assurance of knowing you’re being treated with the most advanced technology there is.

LASIK performed with IntraLase is preferred by patients.

In a survey of clinical practices, the vision in the IntraLase-treated eye was preferred up to 3 to 1 by patients over the vision in the mechanical blade–treated eye (among those who stated a preference).2

LASIK performed with IntraLase delivers superior visual results.

In a clinical study comparing the IntraLase laser to the leading microkeratome, more patients achieved 20/20 vision or better in standard and custom LASIK surgery when the IntraLase method was used to create the corneal flap.

How the IntraLase Method Works

Unlike mechanical instruments, IntraLase technology is uniquely able to program the dimensions of your flap based on what’s best for your eye. Then the IntraLase laser creates your flap from below the surface of the cornea—without ever cutting it. How?

1. Ultra–fast pulses of laser light position microscopic bubbles at a precise depth determined by your doctor.

2. The laser light passes harmlessly through your cornea. Then the laser creates rows of these bubbles just beneath your corneal surface as it moves back and forth across your eye in a uniform plane.

3. Next, the IntraLase laser stacks bubbles around your corneal diameter to create the edges of your flap. These bubbles are stacked at an angle that is determined by your doctor and is individualized to the way your eye is shaped.


4. The process takes only about 30 seconds from start to finish— it’s quiet and it’s comfortable.

5. Your doctor then gently lifts the flap to allow for the second step of your LASIK treatment. When treatment is complete, the flap easily “locks” back into position and rapidly begins to heal.

Because of the superior accuracy of the IntraLase method, certain patients who were ineligible for LASIK may now be able to have treatment. Ask your doctor today if you are a candidate.

	DR. SIBLEY uses the ALL-LASER LASIK (INTRALASE) for the crucial 1st step of your LASIK.. Two lasers are used in our bladeless Intralase LASIK procedure. The 1st laser is a femtosecond laser (0.000000000000001 second), different from the 2nd Excimer cold laser type used to resurface the eye. The Intralase (cold) directs its laser beam into a tiny 3 micron (0.003 mm) spot, which is focused to a precise depth within the cornea.
	In less than one minute, using computer precision and extremely high speed of delivery, approximately 1 million pulses are delivered to the exact location desired by the surgeon. Discrete laser bursts create a million tiny CO2 bubbles which result in simple,safe, and successful separation of the cornea and creation of the protective flap without the need of any blade.
	The surgeon lifts the flap and uses another type of cold laser ( EXCIMER) to correct the vision. Dr. SIBLEY performs an excimer laser treatment to resurface the eye, allowing you to see without glasses. After the excimer laser treatment, the flap is placed back into its original position. No stitches are needed.

The Benefits of All-Laser LASIK

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Since LASIK was introduced a decade ago, The Florida Eye Center has remained at the forefront of laser vision technology. One of its most recent advancements is All-Laser LASIK which eliminates the blade used in traditional LASIK. Although traditional LASIK has been an extremely safe and effective procedure, All-Laser LASIK offers patients a new sense of assurance and peace of mind through added safety & increased precision in a less invasive manner.

• Increased accuracy & precision

• Reduced patient anxiety

• LASIK is available to more people

• No metal blade

• Increased patient confidence

The Benefits of CustomVue™

A more personalized treatment thanks to CustomVue, and the surgical expertise of Doctors Sibley and Shriver, you now have the potential to see better than 20/20. With CustomVue, we can produce a detailed computerized map, or “fingerprint” of your entire optical system to detect irregularities that could never be measured or corrected before.
This information is 25 times more accurate than standard measurements for contacts or glasses.

For most people, this can mean clearer and crisper vision.

• 20/20 vision or better is now possible, without glasses or contacts*

• Improved night vision for many patients

• Reduced side-effects such as halos and glare

• With CustomVue, you may see better than you’ve ever seen before