Corrective Possibilities

Over the last 250 years, techniques of correcting the optical impairments of the eye have been limited to nearsightedness or farsightedness, and to the cylindrical refractive errors, mainly by glasses or contact lenses. 

Within the last decade, laser vision correction has become a standard of care for correcting patient’s eyesight. Commonly used is the so called laser in situ keratomeleusis (LASIK), where a flap is cut in the cornea and folded back to expose the corneal stroma to an ablating excimer laser beam. After the treatment the flap is repositioned to cover the corneal wound.

The most attractive solution of correcting vision is by personalized refractive surgery. Here, corneal tissue is individually ablated using a laser beam. This treatment is based on the measured unique wavefront aberrations to permanently reduce the refractive errors of the individual patient's eye.

20/10 PERFECT VISION’s FEMTEC femtosecond laser workstation is the ideal tool to facilitate the flap cut creation during a LASIK procedure. Instead of using a mechanical blade, the FEMTEC utilizes gentle ultrashort laser pulses to create the corneal flap.

In addition to flap creation, the FEMTEC can be used to correct visual deficiencies by performing arcuate cuts for the correction of cylinder and by creating channels for the insertion of intracorneal ring segments. Furthermore, the FEMTEC can serve as a powerful “laser scalpel” to perform perforating and lamellar keratoplasty, and other therapeutic applications.

Please refer to our Applications section for further information on the versatility of the FEMTEC femtosecond laser workstation.