What if I've had complications from previous surgery elsewhere?
The IntraLase® Method for a Blade-Free LASIK Experience
With the IntraLase method, pulses of laser light create your corneal flap, which is then lifted so the next step of LASIK - the reshaping of your cornea - can be performed. When your LASIK treatment is over, the flap is securely repositioned into place.
Our commitment is to provide you with the ultimate in comfort, safety, and outstanding vision. LASIK with IntraLase can help you achieve all of this - while it delivers the added assurance of knowing you're being treated with the most advanced technology there is.
How the IntraLase Method Works
IntraLase technology is uniquely able to program the dimensions of your flap based on what's best for your eye. Then the IntraLase laser creates your flap from below the surface of the cornea - without ever cutting it. How?
Ultra - fast pulses of laser light position microscopic bubbles at a precise depth determined by Dr. Maloney.
The laser light passes harmlessly through your cornea. Then the laser creates rows of these bubbles just beneath your corneal surface as it moves back and forth across your eye in a uniform plane.
Next, the IntraLase laser stacks bubbles around your corneal diameter to create the edges of your flap. These bubbles are stacked at an angle that is determined by your doctor and is individualized to the way your eye is shaped.
The process takes only about 30 seconds from start to finish - it's quiet and it's comfortable.
Dr. Maloney then gently lifts the flap to allow for the second step of your LASIK treatment. When treatment is complete, the flap easily "locks" back into position and rapidly begins to heal.
