Wavefront Technology

Wavefront mapping is a vision diagnosis technology that makes it possible for Dr. Carter to customize your laser eye surgery more precisely than was previously possible. The Wavefront technology precisely measures and records the unique imperfections of your eyes and creates a 3D map for each eye. Dr. Carter use the recorded data and maps to plan your vision correction treatment. LASIK performed after a Wavefront diagnosis is known as custom LASIK.

How does Wavefront Mapping Work?

Wavefront mapping can detect and measure vision defects 25 times more precisely than other standard methods. To create a Wavefront map for each of your eyes, a safe and painless beam of light is passed through each eye. It travels through to the retina and then reflects back to the Wavefront system.

The Wavefront system captures and measures the changes that your eyes made to the light beam. A perfect eye would make no changes, but no person has a perfect eye. Each human eye has microscopic aberrations in its contours which create a curved formation to the front of the light beam.

These curved formations are known as Higher Order Aberrations and were not corrected by early LASIK procedures, done before Wavefront technology was developed. They mostly relate to night vision and so far about 60 have been discovered and recorded. There are just three Lower Order Aberrations: myopia, hyperopia and astigmatism.

After a Wavefront LASIK sensor identifies, measures, and maps your eye’s aberrations (both lower and higher), computer software converts the data into a mathematic formula. This formula becomes the treatment instructions for the laser Dr. Carter uses to conduct your custom LASIK procedure.

To better understand the process or to schedule an appointment for Custom LASIK, please contact LASIK surgeon Dr. Carter today. Our office serves Dallas, Texas.