LASIK Eye Surgery Offered at Our Cary Practice for Raleigh / Durham Area - The Latest LASIK Technology

LASIK eye surgery offers Raleigh / Durham area patients of our Cary practice the chance to greatly improve their vision. In most cases LASIK patients can even eliminate the need for glasses or contact lenses. Learn more about the LASIK procedure, as well as the LASIK technology available at our practice.

Refractive Errors Treatable with LASIK
- » Nearsightedness
- » Farsightedness
- » Astigmatism
How Does LASIK Work?
The LASIK Procedure
We Customize Treatment to Fit Your Individual Needs
Video of the LASIK Eye Surgery Procedure
LASIK Surgery Testimonial
The Latest LASIK Technology
- » WaveScan™ Wavefront® Technology
- » VISX® Star S4-IR™
- » CustomVue™
- » IntraLase®
Schedule a LASIK Consultation

Refractive Errors Treatable with LASIK

LASIK is an acronym for Laser-Assisted In-Situ Keratomileusis, a procedure that uses a laser to reshape the cornea and correct refractive error, the failure of the eye to properly focus light on the retina. There are three common types of refractive error that can be treated with LASIK eye surgery:

Nearsightedness:
Nearsightedness (myopia) occurs when the cornea is too curved or the eye is too long. This causes light to focus in front of the retina, resulting in blurry distance vision.
Farsightedness:
Farsightedness (hyperopia) occurs when the cornea is too flat in relation to the length of the eye. This causes light to focus at a point beyond the retina, resulting in blurry close vision and sometime blurry distance vision as well.
Astigmatism:
Astigmatism occurs when the cornea is shaped like a football (more curved in one direction than the other) and often occurs along with nearsightedness and farsightedness. This causes light to focus in more than one point on the retina, resulting in blurry and distorted vision.

How Does LASIK Work?

The LASIK Surgery Procedure - Photo LASIK eye surgery at our Durham / Raleigh area practice in Cary practice corrects vision by reshaping the cornea, so that light rays focus more precisely on the retina, thereby reducing or eliminating refractive errors. There is typically little or no post-operative discomfort after LASIK surgery. Recovery is fast and complications are extremely rare, if your procedure is performed by an experienced LASIK surgeon.

The LASIK Procedure

The first step in LASIK eye surgery is to create a corneal flap. A very fine layer of the outer corneal surface is incised with a laser or microkeratome and folded back to expose the stroma, the middle corneal layer. The second step of LASIK eye surgery is to use a laser to remove microscopic amounts of tissue to reshape the cornea. Lastly, the flap is returned to its original position and reseals itself.

We Customize Treatment to Fit Your Individual Needs

If you are not a candidate for LASIK at our Raleigh / Durham area practice, Dr. Dornic can discuss with you the LASIK alternatives, LASEK, PRK, and LTK. To ensure the very best results available for LASIK eye surgery, our Cary practice is outfitted with the finest equipment available.

LASIK Surgery Testimonial

Dr Dornic’s staff was very accommodating and very good at explaining the procedure from start to finish and what I could expect. I could see better immediately after surgery than I could with my own contacts. There was no pain at all. The LASIK surgery has freed me from the daily grind of having to wear contacts - the hassles, the eye infections, all the things associated with having contacts. - Maria

The Latest LASIK Technology

Our LASIK practice in the Durham / Raleigh area offers the latest LASIK technology available to date. Learn more about Wavefront® LASIK, custom LASIK with CustomVue™ and VISX® technology, and all laser LASIK with the IntraLase® laser.

WaveScan™ Wavefront® Technology

WaveScan™ Wavefront® Technology By using the VISX® WaveScan™ Wavefront® System in LASIK eye surgery at our Cary practice, Dr. Dornic creates a WavePrint® map that reveals the way your entire optical system processes light. This creates a personalized “fingerprint” of your vision that has previously not been available, allowing each of your eyes to be treated for their unique imperfections during LASIK eye surgery.

VISX® Star S4-IR™

Dr. Dornic performs your LASIK vision correction with the VISX® Star S4-IR™ laser. The Star S4-IR™ offers a new level of accuracy by combining two systems: Variable Spot Scanning and 3D ActiveTrak®. This laser is accurate to 0.25 microns – an amazing figure when you consider a human hair is about 70 microns thick.

CustomVue™

CustomVue™ matches the “fingerprint” of your vision to that of a perfect optical system and transfers this information directly to the VISX® Star S4-IR™ laser for precise, personalized LASIK eye surgery for our Raleigh / Durham patients. For those LASIK patients who qualify, CustomVue™ can enable Dr. Dornic to correct minute details in your vision that glasses and contacts cannot.

IntraLase®

The IntraLase® laser is the latest technology available for creating the corneal flap for LASIK. Used instead of the standard metal blade, the laser provides a much more precise flap. Dr. Dornic is the only LASIK surgeon in the Raleigh / Durham / Cary area trained and experienced in this new advance in LASIK technology. If your surgeon doesn’t perform IntraLase®, you won’t be offered IntraLase®.

Schedule a LASIK Consultation at Our Raleigh Area Practice

For the most modern techniques and technology for LASIK eye surgery or to request a free copy of Consumer's Guide to LASIK in the Raleigh / Durham, North Carolina area, contact our LASIK center in Cary today.

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