System and method for treating vision refractive errors

A method for correcting a refractive error in a living eye comprising the steps of:

• calculating an amount of sphere or astigmatism based on preoperative manifest refraction and preoperative higher order aberrations data associated with the eye;
• entering at least the calculated sphere or astigmatism into a program code embedded on a storage medium readable by a laser ablation control system;
• providing a laser platform operatively connected to the laser ablation control system, wherein the laser platform is adapted to ablating a portion of the eye according to the program code;
• and
• causing the laser platform to ablate the portion of the eye using radiation.

A system for using a laser vision correction system to ablate a portion of a surface of a living eye to correct at least one spherical aberration of the eye comprising:

• a first calculation subsystem for calculating an amount of sphere based on preoperative manifest refraction and preoperative higher order aberrations data associated with the eye;
• and
• a second calculation subsystem for adjusting the amount of calculated sphere or astigmatism to account for at least one preoperative risk or other factor,
• wherein the preoperative manifest refraction data comprises at least a preoperative manifest sphere amount, a preoperative spherical equivalent amount, a regular astigmatism amount, and an oblique astigmatism amount, and
• wherein the preoperative higher-order aberrations data comprises at least a 4th-order spherical aberration and a 3rd root mean square amount.

A method for treating a refractive error of a living eye using a laser vision correction platform, comprising the steps of:

• conducting a diagnostic examination of the eye to obtain preoperative manifest refraction and preoperative wavefront analysis data associated with the eye;
• providing the data to a device operatively connected to the laser vision correction platform, wherein the platform includes a laser adapted to irradiating a surface according one or more instructions stored on a device readable medium, and wherein the one or more instructions is based on the preoperative data;
• and
• causing the laser vision correction platform to ablate at least a portion of the eye to at least partially correct the refractive errors.