The first step in the LASIK procedure    
Dr. Mark Schneider is proud to have been one of the first surgeons in the United States to offer this next generation, advanced laser technology to create the corneal flap, the important first step in the LASIK.

Traditionally, doctors have used an instrument called a microkeratome for the creation of the corneal flap.  The microkeratome is a hand-held blade that moves across the eye, cutting the corneal flap as it goes.  While LASIK is extremely safe, if complications do occur, the microkeratome is usually the cause.

The IntraLase method, by contrast, is a 100% blade free approach that enables Dr. Schneider to create a corneal flap without a blade ever touching your eye.  With the IntraLase, a silent, tiny beam of laser light passes harmlessly through the outer cornea, forming a layer of microscopic sized bubbles that separate the corneal tissue creating the corneal flap.  This entire process takes about 20 seconds.  Because of the superior accuracy of the IntraLase method, certain patients who were not eligible for LASIK in the past, may now be able to have treatment.  This accuracy and precision makes LASIK correction with IntraLase one of the safest forms of laser vision correction available today.

In a clinical study comparing the IntraLase method to the leading microkeratome, more LASIK patients achieved 20/20 vision or better when the IntraLase was used to create the corneal flap.  This computer controlled, all-laser approach to the flap creating process is recognized as one of the key ingredients in optimizing not only visual results, but safety.
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