IntraLASIK (All-Laser Eye Surgery) Statistics

Deciding whether or not to undergo any form of laser eye surgery is one of the most challenging decisions an individual can make. We rely on our vision for much of our experience of the environment and the world around us. Though any surgery should be approached with a certain degree of caution, patients can take comfort in the fact that statistics suggest IntraLASIK procedures are among the safest, most reliable forms of laser eye surgery available.

Does IntraLASIK produce better results?

In clinical trials, more patients reported experiencing better vision following their IntraLASIK procedure than those who had undergone traditional LASIK or some other corrective laser eye surgery. Though many of the risks may be the same as with traditional LASIK, the IntraLASIK procedure enjoys a lesser occurrence of these risks while delivering more accurate vision correction.

IntraLASIK – Clinical Studies

With more than 600,000 laser eye surgery procedures safely performed, IntraLASIK is considered a safe and superior alternative to traditional LASIK, both in quality of corrected vision and accuracy of the procedure. Some of the findings from clinical studies are outlined below:

• 81 percent of laser eye surgery patients choose IntraLASIK over traditional LASIK when given the choice (Mahdavi).
• When the IntraLase® laser is used to perform the first step of laser vision correction, there are fewer complications, with more patients achieving vision better than 20/20 (Durrie, Manche, Manger, Sloan, Schallhorn/Tanzer).
• Bladeless LASIK provides for more precise vision correction (over the traditional cutting tool, the microkeratome’s small blade) (Durrie, Manche, Schallhorn/Tanzer).
• The standard deviation in flap thickness is virtually halved in IntraLASIK procedures. Traditional LASIK allows for a deviation of between 20 and 40 microns in the measurement of flap thickness. With IntraLASIK technology, that range is reduced to plus or minus 11 microns, allowing the surgeon to more accurately establish the depth of the corneal flap.
• In traditional LASIK procedures, 95 percent of all complications occur during the creation of the corneal flap using the microkeratome. With the substitution of a second precision laser for the microkeratome, IntraLASIK greatly reduces the occurrence of these complications.
• In studies where patients underwent traditional LASIK on one eye and IntraLASIK surgery on the other, the patients preferred the postoperative vision of their IntraLase®-treated eye over their blade-treated eye by three-to-one.

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