Recent Lasik symposium at North Shore Eye Care

On May 25th North Shore Eye Care held its second lasik symposium.  In addition to learning how laser vision correction corrects vision the audience participation greatly enhanced the learning process.  One of the terms the audience was unfamiliar with is i-lasik.  The i in i-lasik basically stands for all the new innovations that have occurred over the last 10 years. One of these innovations is the wave front vision analyzer.  Instead of correcting vision by placing ones spectacle correction into the laser,  a point source of light is shined into the eye.  This light returns from the eye in the shape of a wave front  which in turn is analyzed by an aberrometer.  Up to 25 times more information can be fed into the computer than with an ordinary glass prescription.  This very same technology is used in high powered telescopes such as the Hubble space telescope where it is so important to minimize distortion.  By employing this technology people often have better unaided vision than they previously had with glasses and contact lenses.

At North Shore Eye Care we serve patients from the Hamptons, Riverhead, Manorville, Shirley, Coram, Centerreach, the Moriches, Mastic, Sayville, Bayshore, Brentwood, Smithtown, Stony Brook, Port Jefferson, Huntington, Kings Park, Hempstead, Hickville, Port Washington, Valley Stream, and many other areas in Nassau and Suffolk Counties as well as New York City.