Lasik is safer than ever... smithtown lasik specialists

North Shore eye care is a leader in lasik laser eye surgery and laser vision correction.  Our board certified eye surgeons use the best in lasik technology and have over 50 years of eye surgical experience.  When you come in for your complimentary lasik evaluation, we will fully test your eyes with corneal topography, corneal pachymetry and eye examination to determine if you are a good candidate for laser vision correction.  About 80 % of our lasik evaluations turn out to be good candidates.  Of those, about 70 % can have bladeless custom lasik and about 30 % can have advanced surface ablation, also called PRK or LASEK.  With lasik, we use Intralase to make a flap in the superficial layers of the cornea.  This flap creation is the safest and most precise available.  We then use VISX Customvue to correct nearsightedness, farsightedness, and astigmatism.  The Wavescan gets a custom fingerprint of your vision.  This fingerprint of your vision is transferred electronically into the laser.  The laser automatically centers ands tracks as it corrects your vision.  It also uses iris registration.  It uses your unique iris landmarks to exactly place the laser pulses.  This promotes the best vision possible every time.  For those patients with thin corneas, irregular corneas, high prescriptions, corneal scars or dry eye, surface ablation is sometimes a better choice.  With surface ablation or PRK, The laser vision correction part is the same,but there is no flap.  By minimizing the depth of the corneal ablation, more candidates can qualify.  Either way, you are getting state of the art laser vision correction by the Top Doctors: New York Metro Area.