Ever wondered what your eye doctor is talking about when he or she tries to sell you “customized” LASIK eye correction surgery (as opposed to standard LASIK)? Well, The Economic Times recently published a rather detailed write-up on the virtues of Custom LASIK.

Custom LASIK is touted of being able to handle the higher-order aberrations that Standard LASIK cannot as these higher-order aberrations tend to be irregularities that differ greatly from person to person. And how is this feat possible? According to the article, this is where wavefront LASIK (using devices such as the Aberrometer) comes into the picture.

Wavefront LASIK involves the mapping of the wavefront of your eye, in order to create a suitable eye correction plan. This will allow doctors to ensure a far higher degree of vision correction compared to off-the-shelf standard LASIK procedures. Of course, if you add in the iris registration technology Lasik World reported earlier, vision correction should climb yet another notch upwards.

But while you might learn quite a bit about customized LASIK from the article, there is no substitute for first hand knowledge from your prospective LASIK surgeon. Besides the additional knowledge you might gain, you’ll get confirmation of whether he or she really knows what LASIK is all about.