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Imagine life without
glasses or
contact lenses! |
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Z-LASIK IS
THE GENTLE WAY TO RESTORE SHARP VISION! |
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If you're looking for accurate, safe and comfortable lase
refractive surgery, Z-LASIK is the procedure of choice for you.
Z-LASIK corrects your vision using laser surgery from beginning to
end. No scalpel will touch your eyes. The risk of
complications is reduced even further as compared to previous
techniques.
And the quality of post-operative vision is better
than with with any other method.
Have your vision
corrected the gentle way and benefit from the most innovative
technology for laser eye surgery available today. |
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In the past:
Blade-assisted flap cutting
The traditional method of
laser vision correction, the LASIK procedure, requires a mechanical
blade to make an incision in the top layer of the corneal tissue
prior to the correction itself. Millions of such corneal flaps have
already been created using this safe technique. But sometimes the
blade produces a rough corneal surface that can affect the quality
of vision. Apart from that, many people decide not to undergo this
procedure because they are uncomfortable with the idea of their eyes
being touched by a blade.
Today: Laser-assisted flap
creation
For several years now it has been possible to
create the flap using a so-called femtosecond laser. This means that
no blade is involved in the procedure. Patients feel more
comfortable, and the result is even better. Over one million
patients have already undergone bladeless laser eye surgery.
Z-LASIK: The future
of bladeless laser surgery
Z-LASIK is the most advanced
innovation in bladeless surgery. This procedure uses a
high-frequency laser. It is designed to create truly customized
flaps, precisely, safely and pain-free Its beam is a 100 times less
intense than that of the first-generation femtosecond lasers. Never
before have safety, accuracy and patient comfort in laser eye
surgery been so good, as proven by 100,000 successful Z-LASIK
treatments.
 Faster Visual Recovery |
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Total procedure time shorter |
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With Z-LASIK, visual recovery is markedly faster. Most
patients will begin to see clearly 1-2 hours after the
procedure is completed, and on the next day will be seeing
close to optimum vision. |
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With Z-LASIK, total procedure time is reduced from 20
minutes on average to a mere 10 minutes. This is because the
2 steps of the procedure (femto laser flap creation and
excimer laser) have been integrated. There is no waiting
time and no moving from one laser to another.
With
Z-LASIK, the surgeon controls the optics of the laser
increasing accuracy and reducing contact time with the eye.
Ziemer technology uses an incredibly fast sequence of tiny
light pulses to generate the smooth surface in the corneal
tissue that is required for optimal vision correction.
Within the few seconds required to create the corneal flap,
the Ziemer femotsecond laser will place an almost
unimaginable number of 400 million tiny, closely spaced gas
bubbles inside the cornea. |
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| Reduced Occurrence
of Dry Eye syndrome |
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Dry Eye Syndrome is a minor side effect of LASIK (it is
observed in 4% of all treated eyes). With the gentler
Z-LASIK procedure, the incidence of Dry Eye Syndrome is
further reduced. |
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| Thinner Flaps |
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Due to the high precision of the Z-LASIK procedure, thinner
more predictable flaps can be created. Higher degrees of
Myopia, Astigmatism, and Hyperopia can be treated with
confidence. |
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| Reduced
inflammation: |
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Larger Treatment
Zones |
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Z-LASIK technology uses light pulses with much lower pulse
energy. Higher pulse energies used in other technologies can
cause inflammation which may affect your vision and may
cause pain for a few days. Such inflammatory response can be
treated with medication and will not cause a permanent
harmful effect. However, in Z-LASIK no such adverse
reactions have been reported. |
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With Z-LASIK larger treatment areas are created which allow
for improved quality of vision, especially at night or in
conditions of poor lighting. Few patients have experienced
halo effects (circular reflections around light sources at
night time) with refractive procedures, but with Z-LASIK,
this undesirable phenomenon will be an even rarer. |
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| Z-LASIK® IS
DIFFERENT! |
Compared to other femto-LASIK procedures based on older
femtolaser technology, Z-LASIK offers many advantages that
lead to better results:
Z-LASIK has an extremely low
impact on the eye: The procedure takes only a few minutes
per eye. The time the laser is in contact with the patient’s
eye is reduced to a minimum.
Z-LASIK is comfortable
and painless: The patient’s head is not fixed during the
procedure.
Z-LASIK also helps in severe cases: Thanks
to the extremely high frequency of the laser pulses, the
layers of the cornea are separated with unprecedented
precision, creating an ultra-thin flap. Z-LASIK is therefore
effective in patients who were previously not candidates for
laser surgery. This includes patients with extreme myopia or
thin corneas.
No inflammation: The laser energy used
for Z-LASIK is about a 100 times less powerful than with
other laser procedures. This is more gentle to the corneal
tissue and prevents temporary inflammatory reactions of the
eye.
Fast result: The recovery period is considerably
shorter than for other techniques. Patients are usually able
to see well within a few hours.
Fewer side effects:
Z-LASIK enables the sugeon to enlarge the treatment zone.
This reduces the risk of undesirable side effects such as
dry eyes, deteriorated night vision or haloes (rings of
light that surround point sources of light). |
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