LASIK in Beverly Hills & Torrance

The day after LASIK, many patients say their vision has dramatically improved. Following your LASIK surgery, you will likely be able to go about your day-to-day life without the need for glasses. It is important to understand that you may not technically have perfect vision. Ninety percent of patients achieve excellent vision between 20/20 and 20/40. Use the online scheduler or call Beverly Hills Institute of Ophthalmology to book your LASIK consultation today.

In laser eye surgery, a medical doctor specializing in eye surgery (ophthalmologist) uses a high-tech laser to carefully shape your cornea. Torrance laser eye surgery is often an excellent solution for nearsightedness, farsightedness, or astigmatism. Laser eye surgery replaces traditional surgical tools with a state-of-the-art laser. Some types of laser surgery still use a scalpel to create an incision, but the surgeon does all corneal reshaping with an advanced laser system. Laser surgery is more precise, less invasive, and has a shorter recovery period than traditional surgery with hand-held surgical tools.

The Advanced CustomVue® procedure offers the most FDA-approved, custom wavefront-guided treatments available for individuals with a wide range of visual errors. Results from multi-center clinical studies demonstrate this:

• Low to moderate nearsightedness (myopia): In clinical studies, 100% of patients treated for moderate myopia could pass a driving test without glasses or contact lenses, and 98% had 20/20 vision or better one year after treatment.
• Farsightedness (hyperopia): Four times as many participants were very satisfied with their vision after the procedure, compared to what was achieved with glasses or contact lenses.
• Mixed astigmatism: Three months after the CustomVue® procedure, 100% of eyes treated for mixed astigmatism showed a decrease in astigmatism.
• High degrees of nearsightedness (myopia): Only 2.2% of eyes in the high myopia clinical trial needed re-treatment. The high myopia study was the first to utilize Fourier algorithms to construct treatment plans.
• Clearer night vision: Patient satisfaction with night vision improved after the CustomVue® procedure.

The Allegretto Wave® Eye-Q laser allows your surgeon to track your eyes for faster and more accurate surgery. This type of laser is used in wavefront LASIK or wavefront-guided LASIK. It takes 3D measurements of how your eye processes images. These images guide the laser in reshaping the cornea, producing precise and individualized vision correction. This technology improves how much you can see (visual acuity measured by the standard 20/20 eye chart) and how well you can see in terms of contrast sensitivity and fine detail.

To understand this, imagine a 3-D map that demonstrates irregularities in the way your eye processes images. These irregularities are unique and exist in addition to nearsightedness, farsightedness, and astigmatism. Information contained in the 3-D map guides the laser in customizing the treatment to reshape the corneal surface, so these unique irregularities are custom corrected.

The IntraLase™ FS laser provides an entirely blade-free LASIK. In the past, surgeons used a hand-held blade called a microkeratome to create the flap in a LASIK procedure. LASIK is extremely safe, but if complications do occur, the microkeratome may be the cause. By contrast, the IntraLase™ FS method is a 100% blade-free approach that enables the surgeon to create an individualized LASIK flap without a blade ever touching your eye.

In a clinical survey of LASIK patients who had treatment with a microkeratome in one eye and the IntraLase™ method in the other, patients preferred the vision in the IntraLase™ treated eye three to one over the microkeratomes. The IntraLase™ approach enables your doctor to tailor the LASIK flap according to the shape of your eye. This is important because everyone's eyes are shaped a little differently, and a customized corneal flap individualized to your eye will help our eye specialist ensure you achieve the best possible results. Clinical studies show excellent visual outcomes and high patient satisfaction when the IntraLase™ method is used.