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The BIG eye meeting - the ASCRS in Chicago 2008

The BIG eye meeting – the ASCRS in Chicago 2008

The BIG eye surgeons meeting is coming up this week, starting on Friday April 8th 2008. Yours truly will be there, bringing you all the latest news from the world of refractive surgery.
ASCRS stands for the American Society of Cataract and Refractive Surgery – which is quite a mouthful, so we shorten it to ASCRS. [...]

Dave Allamby | Mar 31, 2008 | Comments 0
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Corneal inlay showing early positive results in European study

Corneal inlay showing early positive results in European study

Early data from a European clinical trial covering several centres suggest that the AcuFocus ACI 7000 corneal inlay could become an innovative, minimally invasive option for correcting patients who have lost reading vision through ageing changes.
However, only 70 patients have been treated with the implant as part of the study, and only 23 have reached [...]

Dave Allamby | Mar 30, 2008 | Comments 0
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Essential UK Guide to Laser Eye Surgery Part 2 - Reading Your Prescription

Essential UK Guide to Laser Eye Surgery Part 2 – Reading Your Prescription

Here is Part 2 of the Essential UK Guide to Laser Eye Surgery slideshows. It covers how to read your prescription and know what all the numbers mean.
This is really useful to know for when you call up a clinic to find out if you are suitable for LASIK or PRK laser eye surgery, they [...]

Dave Allamby | Mar 12, 2008 | Comments 0
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LASIK & LASEK - which laser eye surgery procedure is best for me?

LASIK & LASEK – which laser eye surgery procedure is best for me?

What is the difference in the two laser eye surgery procedures?
There are basically two laser refractive procedures to correct myopia (short sight), hyperopia (long sight) and astigmatism: 1) LASIK and 2) LASEK. [You can consider LASEK and PRK as basically the same procedure for most discussions - they are both forms of 'surface' [...]

Dave Allamby | Mar 12, 2008 | Comments 0
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What's important when choosing a laser eye surgery clinic? Part 2

What’s important when choosing a laser eye surgery clinic? Part 2

There are FOUR key points to look at when choosing a clinic:
1. The laser technology
2. The surgeon
3. The clinic
4. The price
Let’s look at these in more detail:

1. Laser technology
The improvements in success rates and safety of laser eye surgery, including LASIK and PRK, have been mainly down to improvements in sophistication of the laser technology. [...]

Dave Allamby | Mar 09, 2008 | Comments 6
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Essential UK Guide to Laser Eye Surgery Part 1 - Needing Glasses

Essential UK Guide to Laser Eye Surgery Part 1 – Needing Glasses

I have put together a short slide show for Part 1 of the Essential UK Guide to Laser Eye Surgery Slideshows.
You can see it here:
Essential UK Guide to Laser Eye Surgery Part 1 – Why You Need Glasses
It covers the 4 reasons why you need to wear glasses and what is happening inside the [...]

Dave Allamby | Mar 08, 2008 | Comments 0
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People confused about laser eye surgery prices!

People confused about laser eye surgery prices!

I got an email this week from a Mr. John Andrews, who was confused about LASIK laser eye surgery pricing.
John wrote:
Having visited your site I am not clear what criteria you used to determine the cost of treatment. What level of myopia do you treat for £295 per eye assuming a thick cornea and no [...]

Dave Allamby | Mar 08, 2008 | Comments 1
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What's important when choosing a laser eye surgery clinic?

What’s important when choosing a laser eye surgery clinic?

It is quite confusing for people looking at where to go for their laser eye surgery treatment. Especially so in London where there are many laser eye clinics to choose from.
In other cities you can usually find one or more of the big three chains: Optical Express, Ultralase and Optimax and these centres are probably [...]

Dave Allamby | Mar 08, 2008 | Comments 0
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