Technology
A refractive surgery is just a five-minute operation, but before that your eye needs thorough analysis. Our clinic has the best diagnostic equipment beside the newest laser to minimize the risk and to make the surgery prefect. Various devices like wavefront analyzer, corneal coherent tomography and a laser, which digitally tracks eye axes during the operation, are unique in Estonia.
MEL 80 is a last generation Carl Zeiss laser for refractive surgery. MEL 80 is flying-spot eye laser, with the laser dot's diameter of 0,7 mm FWHM. Though laser speed is thermally optimized, correcting one diopter only takes 3 seconds.
The VisuMax femtosecond laser system makes it possible for the surgeon to create a precise corneal flap during refractive vision correction surgery. In combination with the MEL 80 excimer laser, the VisuMax technology offers outstanding clinical results and greater comfort for patients.
CRS-Master TwinLine
For planning the laser procedure we use correspondingly to modern refractive surgery standards in addition to corneal topographer also a wavefront analyzer. High-resolution WASCA Analyzer is capable of analyzing 800 eye's light-refracting spots, so measuring eye's optical properties 25-50 times more detailed than glasses or contact lens measuring tools or corneal topographer. From WASCA Analyzer and ATLAS 995 corneal topographer data every patient is individually compiled an adapted ablation profile with CRS-Master TwinLine. With the help of digitally to laser directed information, the laser processes the cornea taking into account the eye's singularity so, that the result is the best possible visual acuity.
Eye Registration
The most important presumption for a good result is laser beam setting to the exactly planned spot on the cornea during the operation. A super-high-speed 6 millisecond reaction time eye-tracker is controlling laser beam's and eye's correct position during the operation. As eye axis is in a bit different position when a person is recumbent, we are the only practice in Estonia who use Carl Zeiss 2006 OcuLign technology to change axis position.
By using iris and eye's blood vessels pattern, this digital technology registers eye axes and assures that the laser beam is set to the correct position in the eye also when the patient is in laying position. This technology also rules out the inaccuracy caused by the wrong position of head or eye. The exact tracking of eye axes is especially important while correcting astigmatism. 60% of people have astigmatism that can be corrected with modern technology.
ReFocus is the only practice in Estonia, which uses the VisuMax femtosecond laser system, wavefront-technology and digital eye axes registration.