Eye Tracking

Eye tracking is the latest development in laser technology.

This new laser follows the eye like a "guided missile" during surgery, making for extra safe and smooth ablations.

Wavefront Analysis

The "Wavefront" analysis that is part of this new technology makes it possible to perform various treatments on eyes that previously could not have undergone corrective surgery e.g. irregular corneas.

The new equipment allows wavefront analysis of the whole eye, to determine whether the problem is in the lens or the cornea.

In combination with the latest tracking technology, the improved wavefront provides the surgeon with the ability to perform custom treatments for irregular corneas, perform larger ablations to minimise impact on night vision, and achieve a smoother ablation profile.

Surface Treatment

New developments both in refractive surgical technology and technique are also seeing some ophthalmic surgeons return to a procedure known as PRK, a forerunner of LASIK.

PRK is the performance of refractive surgery by laser without the fashioning of a corneal flap. The precision of the new-technology scanning spot laser allows non-invasive sculpting of the cornea to take place with a greater degree of accuracy than with the older broad beam laser.

New Intraocular Lenses

Ashfield Eye Clinic’s Dr Barry Den is now utilising a new technological development (IOLs) Rayner Toric Intraocular Lenses and also Alcon Acrysof Toric IOLs – Rayner Toric Intraocular Lenses – to benefit patients with astigmatism and other patients whose eyes or eye types are unsuitable for the LASIK procedure.

Working closely with the UK-based developers of this new lens technology, Dr Den was the first ophthalmic surgeon in New South Wales – and among the first in Australia – to use these special implant lenses.