iLASIK™

Only the Safest LASIK for Long Beach!

Are you seeking a Long Beach iLASIK surgeon?

Dr. Carlos Martinez and Dr. James Donovan are committed to providing only the best technology for their patients and have chosen iLasik™ as their preferred laser vision correction method.   iLasik™ is one of the best procedures for laser vision correction that has been developed by AMO/VISX and perfected by Intralase technology. This is the first time that any laser refractive surgery company has combined wavefront analysis, excimer laser technology and blade-free flap creation into one procedure.

Is iLASIK better than conventional LASIK?

Conventional LASIK has been a great procedure but over 10 years of laser vision research has led to better and safer methods of vision correction. Although most traditional LASIK patients have experienced little to no problems, ophthalmologists and visual scientists were eager to perfect this procedure with better technology and now it is available with iLASIK through Dr. Martinez and Dr. Donovan at Eye Physicians of Long Beach.

The Advanced Technology of the iLASIK platform

What is the iLASIK platform?

The iLASIK platform used at Eye Physicians of Long Beach includes:

• VISX star4 Excimer Laser (with IRIS Registration) - the VISX star4 excimer laser is one of the top excimer lasers with superior technology like Iris Registration (IR).  IR provides a much better alignment of the blue print of your eye measured preoperatively with the actual cornea during treatment.  When you lay down to have the laser done, your eye can shift.  Using Iris Registration, the computer finds prominent points seen in your iris during the creation of the blueprint of your eye and their new position.  It will then adjust the treatment positioning prior to starting the treatment.  It will then automatically check the new pattern to make sure it makes sense.  It will also center treatment to the pupil measured preoperatively.
• CustomVue™ Wavefront technology- Developed from Hubble telescope technology wavefront expands treatment zones and helps minimize higher order aberrations which results in better vision quality.  
• ActiveTrak™ 3-D Active Eye Tracking- with automatic centering.  It is the first FDA-approved tracker in the industry to track eye movements along the X, Y and Z axes. These features facilitate the accurate performance of the Advanced CustomVue™ procedure.  An infrared camera can detect eye movements and compensate for these by guiding the laser beam to the right place.  The tracker realigns itself before each laser pulse which results in pinpoint accuracy.
• Intralase® Blade-FREE laser - Creates the LASIK flap with a laser instead of blade resulting in a safer LASIK

“ By combining CustomVue wavefront technology with VISX™ Star4 active tracking capability and a blade-free Femtosecond Laser for an ALL-laser LASIK, we can now achieve a safer more precise result. The technology used in the iLASIK procedure has been thoroughly tested and scrutinized by doctors who overwhelmingly claim the advantages with safety and precision. It is clear now that iLASIK truly represents a technological combination unmatched in vision correction."

iLASIK Facts

Approximately 32,000,000 LASIK procedures have been performed to date, making it the most common elective vision procedure in the U.S. In fact, all branches of the U.S. military and NASA recently approved LASIK for their servicemen and women, thanks to studies using iLASIK technology. AMO/VISX

• iLASIK is the culmination of more than a decade of extensive medical expertise.   Our practice is committed to innovation and safety in laser vision correction, and iLASIK is a combination of the latest in laser vision technology.
  
• If you are at the age of 21 and over, and wear glasses or contact lenses to correct  myopia, hyperopia, or astigmatism you may be a candidate for iLASIK.
• iLASIK uses two computer-guided lasers to custom correct your vision according to the unique and individual characteristics of your eye, based on measurements 25 times more precise than standard methods used to measure glasses and contact lenses.

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