LASIK or Lasik commonly known to as laser eye surgery is a type of refractive surgery for the correction of myopia, hypermetropia, and astigmatism.  In myopia, one typically will have difficulty and seeing distant objects clearly, but will be able to see well for close-up tasks such as reading and computer use. On the other hand, a hypermetropic person may have blurred vision when looking at objects close to them, and clearer vision when looking at objects in the distance. Astigmatism is an optical defect in which vision is blurred due to the inability of the optics of the eye to focus a point object into a sharp focused image on the retina. LASIK surgery is performed by an ophthalmologist who uses a laser to reshape the eye's cornea. This procedure today has become highly popular and more importantly convenient as Customer or personalized Laser treatments have are being offered.

Personalized LASIK treatment is also called Wave front LASIK as it uses 3-dimensional measurements of how your eye processes images to guide the laser in re-shaping the front part of the eye. The results that this treatment gives is impossible to get by using traditional laser correction method as it lacks the precision in terms of measurement which is easily achieved by using the wave front technology. With personalized LASIK, the patient's eye's capability to converge rays of light is measured, and a 3-D map used in wave front technology is created that highlights any kind of abnormality or anomaly in the how the images are processed by the eye. This information obtained from the map helps the laser in formulating a customized treatment for the patient to reshape the eye's affected corneal surface so that these abnormalities can be corrected permanently. This technology has thus created a revolution in the healthcare industry.

The number of benefits of personalized LASIK treatment is numerous. With this revolutionary technology the patient has higher chances of achieving a perfect twenty by twenty vision or even a higher one. They have greater chance of losing visual quality or contrast sensitivity or night-vision disturbances and glare. A study reported in June 2009* found that 84 percent of 324 eyes that underwent wave front-guided LASIK procedures for myopia with or without astigmatism achieved 20/20 uncorrected vision or better. In specific tests measuring contrast sensitivity and night vision, significant improvement was noted. The patient must d be qualified under FDA guidelines before personalized LASIK treatment is considered for the eye condition. If one is not a candidate for LASIK, one may opt for another laser eye surgery such as PRK LASEK, or epi-LASIK. There are also non-laser vision correction procedures.