Laser eye surgery from ADVANCE VISIONCARE
Tissue Saving
Laser eye treatments involve the removal of a small quantity of tissue from the front surface of the eye (the cornea). This will slightly alter the curvature of the cornea, and thereby improving your vision. The higher the prescription then the more the tissue needs to be removed. Unfortunately this meant that some patients were unable to have treatment as it would have left them with corneas below the safety level.
The Bausch and Lomb Zyoptix Tissue-Sparing system has been developed with these patients in mind because it is efficient in minimising the amount of corneal tissue to be removed in order to produce the desired prescription change. Tissue-Sparing can remove up to 25% less tissue than standard treatment.
Instead of merely treating the prescription the laser is guided in its treatment by the actual structure of the eye using the information collated from the scans taken at the initial consultation. This means that no two treatments are the same as each one takes into account the individual differences between each person's eyes.
One other benefit of the tissue-sparing option is topography-assisted treatment. The laser is guided during treatment by the information obtained when we capture the contour maps of your eyes. These maps, known as corneal topography, assist the laser in the accurate placement of the treatment.
