The Interlase Method

What is the Intralase Method? Intralase also known as IntraLASIK is all-laser computerized LASIK procedure that uses 2 layers to actually perform the entire procedure.  Intralase has been touted as a making LASIK "safer" and more precise obtaining better results and increased safety. Another advantage of the Intralase/IntraLASIK experience is the ability to make a much thinner flap; this spares or frees-up additional stromal tissue for treatment and allows many patients with thinners corneas to now have LASIK.

The IntraLASIK procedure utilizes a focused infrared beam to create photodisruption below the corneal surface, without generating hear or ablating tissue. Tiny pulses of laser light pass harmlessly through the outer portion of your cornea and form a uniform layer of microscopic bubbles just beneath the surface of your eye. It creates a cap with uniform thickness throughout, rather than being thinner centrally, thicker in the mid-periphery and thinner again at the cap periphery as with the traditional razor blade technology (microkeratome). The Intralase procedure takes about 30 seconds per eye.

While still one of Laser Eye Surgery's newer technologies clinical evidence has emerged supporting claims of lower complication rates, reductions in the percentage of patients requiring enhancements, lower incidence of dry eye, and decreased amounts of induced optical aberrations. Today, there are more than 400 IntraLase lasers in operation with approximately 75 percent located in the U.S.