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Hale Vision Laser & Implant Center now features the Visx Star S4 IR and the latest Intralase iFS femtosecond laser systems as the heart of their advanced treatment system. Lasik is a two step process and it is our goal to make each step as safe and precise as possible. This has evolved into an all-laser process, utilizing a separate laser in each step of the process. These two systems will be discussed below. On May 23, 2003, the United States Food and Drug Administration approved VISX CustomVue laser vision correction for the treatment of nearsightedness and astigmatism, a technological advancement that sets a new standard for vision correction, with the potential to enable better vision than contacts or glasses, even at night. |
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While Dr. Hale is certified on several different laser systems, he has consistently favored the Visx laser system since its introduction in 1996, and has been an active physician trainer for the Visx system for many years. Our state-of-the-art surgical facility, SIGHTLab, possesses the most advanced model of the Visx system, the Visx Star S4IR Active Trak system and along with the recent installation of the lastest wavefront scanning software, we have the most advanced treatment system available in the United States. With current FDA approvals, this system can treat myopia, astigmatism, high myopia, mixed astigmatism, and hyperopia. |
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 New "Custom" LASIK Individualizes Vision CorrectionStudy Shows Better Quality Results of Wavefront-guided LASIK The American Society of Cataract and Refractive Surgery |
Iris Registration |
| On August 19, 2005, Dr. Hale became the first refractive surgeon in Wisconsin to install and use the new Visx Star S4 IR system. IR or Iris Registration is the latest step in CustomVue technology pioneered by Visx. The idea is to ensure the best alignment of the laser treatment pattern possible. The eye tends to rotate when a person changes from the seated to the lying position. This is often a fairly small amount but at times can be quite significant. In the past, it has been the surgeon's responsibility to adjust the patients' position to correct this rotation. |
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Rotation can occur when the patient changes from the seated to the lying position. This can result in a misalignment of the laser treatment pattern. |
| While the surgeon must always be prepared to make any necessary adjustments, the IR system aids the surgeon in this task. It starts at the examination, when an infrared image of the iris is obtained in the seated position and analyzed for the various characteristic features of the individuals' iris. At the time of surgery, another infrared image is taken when lying under the laser and these images are compared. Any recognized rotation is then compensated for by rotating the treatment pattern in the laser software prior to treatment. |
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The Iris Registration system recognizes and corrects and misalignment in the laser treatment pattern. The better the alignment of the laser treatment the higher the quality of the surgical result. |
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Image degradation occurs when the treatment is not properly aligned. The lower row shows the effect on the image quality with increasing rotation from 1 to 30 degrees. |
| In December of 1999, the Intralase FS laser was granted 510-K approval for creation of LASIK flaps. This marked a new era of vision correction technology. This represents the first of the Star Trek era technology where we use energy to produce an incision rather than a steel blade. In March of 2011, Hale Vision installed the first, and currently only, 5th generation Intralase iFS system, in the Southeastern Wisconsin area. This device creates plasma energy pulses at an astounding 150,000/second and is used to fashion the most sophisticated, corneal flap for our advanced Lasik procedures. This differs from the handheld, bladed microkeratome that creates a flap thats shape is often altered by the pre-existing shape of the eye. The Intralase is not sensitive to the pre-existing eye shape and therefore has a lower complication rate in the area of flap creation. The Intralase also creates a flap that has more uniform thickness than flaps created by a bladed device. This is important when we are attempting to make extremely small shape corrections with our second step, the excimer (Visx) treatment laser. The combination of the Intralase and an excimer laser (Visx style) has been scientifically shown to produce the best possible LASIK results, and has been accepted as the standard for the US Military and is trademarked as iLasik. |
Pentacam |
| Hale Vision was proud to introduce the Pentacam HR to the Southeastern Wisconsin area in 200?. This is the most advanced scanning technology available for the detection of early corneal disease that would preclude a patient from having laser corneal surgery. While only (1/2000) people have the conditions known as Keratoconus (KC) and Marginal Pellucid Degeneration (PMD), it is imperative that these patients are identified as they will usually suffer a worsening of their condition if laser corneal surgery, especially Lasik, is performed. |
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20350 Watertower Blvd. #200
Brookfield, WI 53045
Phone: (262) 789-9029
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