Armed Services for Laser Vision Correction

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NEW YORK, April 19 /PRNewswire/ -- The U.S. Navy Refractive Surgery
program recently presented data at the 31st Annual Symposium of American Society of Cataract and Refractive Surgery that showed "custom" (also known as wavefront-guided) laser vision correction produces superior outcomes compared to traditional laser vision correction surgeries. Wavefront-guided digital technology can measure imperfections in the eye never measured before using standard methods for glasses and contact lenses. It identifies and measures imperfections in an eye 25 times more precisely than the standard method.
Physicians use this information during custom LASIK procedures.
The U. S. Navy, Army, and Air Force refractive surgery programs are jointly evaluating wavefront-guided laser vision correction.
Soldiers say it gives them the ability to operate quickly and more effectively in a combat environment, and makes them better marksman and better day and night fighters. Wavefront-guided LASIK was recently approved by the Air Force for pilots because of its ability to see contrasts and clearer night vision compared to conventional LASIK. For more information about custom
LASIK, visit http://www.eyesurgeryeducation.org.

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1. Day and night?

If the vision is better at night, that's a huge deal! With standard LASIK for people with vision bad enough to really need the procedure, night vision is made almost unacceptable. By bad, I'm talking about people like me that have 20/2500 vision that need glasses to walk across the room. We can't get LASIK without having horrible halos around lights. For the people that don't need surgery at all, which make-up most of those that have the procedure, of course their night vision wasn't affected since their vision wasn't really changed much in the first place.

Wow, LASIK without ruining night vision.