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Laser Eye Surgery LASIK
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Center for Sight was one of the first practices in the Valley to offer its patients the attraction of LASIK without the use of a blade. Intralase has proved to be one of the most significant advances in the LASIK procedure in its fifteen year history.

The advantage of Intralase is simple: It allows the most important step in the LASIK procedure, the creation of the LASIK flap, to be performed with a level of control, accuracy, and safety that is not possible with conventional bladed LASIK. If you understand the LASIK procedure, it is easy to understand why Intralase is such a significant advance.

Dr Petelin has extensive experience with Intralase. During your consultation with him, you will learn in greater detail the advantages it affords to those patients well suited to the LASIK procedure. If you have been waiting for that one "advance" that makes surgery a possibility, with Intralase, LASIK has never looked better.

Lasik Surgery
LASIK stands for Laser-Assisted In Situ Keratomileusis and is a procedure that permanently changes the shape of the cornea, the clear covering of the front of
the eye, using an excimer laser. A mechanical microkeratome (a blade device) or a laser keratome (a laser device) is used to cut a flap in the cornea. A hinge is left at one end of this flap. The flap is folded back revealing the stroma, the middlesection of the cornea. Pulses from a computer-controlled laser vaporize a portion of the stroma and the flap is replaced.