TECHNOLOGY

The Wellington Eye Clinic uses the most advanced laser currently available – the WaveLight Allegretto Eye-Q 400 Hz laser. This is the fastest laser in Ireland and ensures a safer, quicker treatment for the patient. This means better vision for you.

The WaveLight Allegretto is a very small 0.9mm flying spot laser with a 400 Hz repetition speed. This laser takes 10 - 20% of the time that most other lasers do to do similar treatments. Together with the Tscherning wavefront analyzer or through its in-built prolate profile enhancement, the Allegretto produces superb clinical outcomes.

The ablation profile using the Allegretto is more optically natural than previous lasers. Please note that there are NO other clinics in Ireland that use a laser with this improved prolate treatment profile as standard. This is just one of the ways that the Wellington Eye Clinic is different from any other eye clinic in Ireland.

This laser produces aspheric/prolate corneas (remembering that prolate is better than oblate), to help reduce any induced higher-order aberrations, especially spherical aberrations. This ensures the best visual quality in all lighting conditions. The WaveLight Allegretto excimer laser has a wide diameter treatment zone, thereby making night vision problems very unlikely.

Scanning Spot Wavefront Optimized Laser
This latest generation laser system is the first laser specifically designed for Custom LASIK. There are a number of very unique features of this laser system: It is a scanning spot laser which has a larger treatment zone. The large treatment zone reduces the problem of glare at night. The rapid laser pulse rate fires at a speed that is much faster than standard lasers. The rapid pulse rate reduces the treatment time thereby reducing corneal dehydration and promotes faster healing. It has an advanced eye tracker for greater accuracy and eliminates the problem of patient movement during surgery. The eye tracker automatically locks on the pupillary centre making the procedure less anxiety-provoking for patients. This laser is equipped to perform Wavefront-optimized treatments, resulting in the reduction of corneal distortions and spherical aberrations.

While patients of the Wellington Eye Clinic have enjoyed the benefits of standard LASIK and PRK since 1990, the latest technology, namely Custom LASIK, is now available. We, at the Wellington Eye Clinic, are the first (and only) to use this advanced laser in Ireland with outstanding results.

True Optical Zones
The small spot creates the desired contour of the correction profile with utmost precision, thereby minimizing the total overall ablation depth. Combining a wavefront optimized ablation profiles with small laser spots allows for the creation of a large effective optical zone with a very small transition area.

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