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In the future, Implantable Contact lenses might replace LASIK Surgery
While LASIK is the most popular form of surgical vision correction today with over a million Americans undergoing the procedure each year, that might change in the future. Implantable Contact Lenses, such as Visian ICL, might be the next wave of vision treatments. Unlike LASIK, Implantable Contact Lenses can treat high amounts of near-sightedness, dry eyes, thin corneas, and possibly even patients with diseases such as keratoconus.
In a comparative study of patients who underwent LASIK and/or Visian ICL it was discovered that the Visian ICL not only compared favorably to LASIK surgery but in fact exceeded the results of LASIK surgery in many categories.
Patients who were in the 8-12 range of myopia were seen to favor Visian over LASIK in a majority of cases. While LASIK has been clinically approved for near-sighted prescriptions as high as -14.00, many doctors avoid LASIK in prescriptions higher than -8.00 or -9.00. Cases of higher near-sightedness, occasionally have problems with dry eye, glare, haloes, and even more serious complications such as corneal ectasias or loss of best corrected vision.
AMO VISX Star S4 with Iris Registration
One of the most popular LASIK excimer laser systems in use around the world is the AMO VISX Star S4 with Wavescan wavefront custom LASIK. This is currently the most popular LASIK system in the USA and the most popular LASIK system in the San Francisco, San Jose, San Diego, Los Angeles, New York, and New Jersey. While LASIK patients all around the world use the AMO VISX excimer laser, it is most popular in the USA. Outside the USA, Bausch and Lomb, Nidek, Zeiss, and other excimer laser manufacturing companies have a much greater market presence.