Allegretto Wavelight Eye-Q 400Hz

The Allegretto Wave Eye-Q, manufactured by Wavelight AG. It is the fastest LASIK platform available in the country today. The Allegretto Wave Eye-Q 400Hz Laser boasts of state-of-the-art surgical laser for safe, accurate and customized vision correction. Featuring wavefront-optimized technology for customized corneal ablation as well as an advanced eye-tracking system, this technology enables IQ Laser Vision’s Medical Director, Dr. Robert T. Lin, to correct each individual’s unique refractive errors while preserving the cornea’s natural shape and minimizing post-procedure effects such as glares and halos.

The laser’s one-of-a-kind eye tracking system is able to automatically adjust to changes in a patient’s pupil size during their procedure. The result is a safe and precise vision correction procedure for every patient. Designed to increase efficiency and enhance patient comfort, the Allegretto Wave Eye-Q delivers 400 treatment pulses per second correcting each patient’s refractive errors within seconds.

Studies show that surgical complications can be reduced with faster, more accurate procedures. Which is why OptiLASIK^® Laser Vision Correction took the already popular Allegretto Wave^® Laser one step further, introducing the Allegretto Wave^® Eye-Q 400Hz Laser with technological improvements that include even faster speeds.

• Speed: Each "burst" of the Allegretto Wave^® Eye-Q 400Hz Laser lasts mere billionths of a second before the laser shifts to its next position—up to 100 times faster than some lasers.
• Precision: The Allegretto Wave^® Eye-Q 400 Hz Laser uses a small-spot laser beam, which allows LASIK specialists to shape the cornea in finer, more gradual increments for a smoother surface with eye-tracking technology 8 times faster than some of the competition.
• Simplicity: The Allegretto Wave^® Eye-Q 400 Hz Laser’s integrated cross-line projector provides the surgeon with an exact alignment of the head's and eye's position by generating a red-light cross on the eye for accuracy.
• Personalized procedure: Using advanced Wavefront Optimized^® technology, the Allegretto Wave^® Eye-Q 400 Hz Laser creates a "map" of your eyes and their unique characteristics to assist your surgeon in creating a personal vision profile for you. This map serves as a guide that helps doctors locate the eye’s exact treatment position, which is one of the most important factors in obtaining a more naturally shaped cornea and therefore an excellent refractive outcome, especially when correcting eyes with high astigmatism.
• Astigmatism : A common refractive condition caused by either an irregularity in the curvature of the cornea (corneal astigmatism) or the lens (lenticular astigmatism). People with astigmatism generally have difficulty seeing fine detail at all distances. This vision disorder is treated with corrective lenses or refractive surgery.

What makes Allegretto Wave^® Lasers so special is their unique PerfectPulse Technology^®, which is designed to ensure that every ultra-fine laser beam pulse is precisely controlled when sculpting the cornea, or surface of the eye.

PerfectPulse Technology^® does this with an advanced high-speed eye-tracking system that follows the eye’s fastest movements and ensures accurate beam placement with 3 different infrared light sources. During the procedure, the stability of every pulse is controlled by a smart-energy program, which automatically balances levels for smoother results.

Wavefront Optimized^® LASIK places more pulses in the peripheral area to compensate for energy loss and reflections. This provides a nearly 100% optical zone and a minimized transition zone. At the same time, the natural aspheric shape of the cornea is preserved and the induction of spherical aberrations minimized.

In these treatments the decreasing fluence and reflections are not compensated and the ablation depth in the peripheral area is insufficient. As a result, the transition between the optical zone and the transition zone is less smooth, while the transition zone itself is fairly large. The non-aspheric ablation profile alters the natural corneal shape and induces spherical aberrations.