Arrangements are being made for me to meet with the designers at Visx
and possibly attend a training program.  Nothing firm yet.  I don't
have much in the way of details about hyperopic wavefront.

I only found a handful of doctors who had used the wavefront-guided
hyperopic correction with the Visx S4.  They seemed pleased with the
results, but half of these doctors are consultants for Visx.  I don't
think they would outright lie about outcomes data, but their
interpretation of why that data ended up that way may be influenced by
their obvious fondness of the Visx machine.

I have not heard much of anything from the "rank and file" refractive
surgeons yet.

I readily admit my bias toward the LADARvision's gaussian beam flying
spot laser and high hertz closed loop tracking over the scanning slit
broadbeam of the Visx, but I have no data to support one over the
other when it comes to Complex Wavefront Retreatment (CWR).

What I see are case studies, and that is to be expected.  Every
patient going in has a complicated eye.  There is no starting
baseline, so it is difficult to say which does better for what,
because every patient has a starting point that is different.

As to the "tricks", expect any doctor worth his/her salt to pull out a
whole bag of tricks for CWR.  It is necessary.  No laser is designed
for CWR (Alcon is working on this), they are all designed for nice
healthy virgin eyes.  Yet another reason to select your CWR doctor
very carefully.  I think even Keller would agree that some doctors are
"trickier" than others.

8^)

Glenn Hagele
Executive Director
USAEyes.org

"Consider and Choose With Confidence"

Email to glenn dot hagele at usaeyes dot org

http://www.USAEyes.org
http://www.ComplicatedEyes.org

I am not a doctor.