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Laser Eye Clinics’ Prices Vary Hugely
There is a huge variation in the prices paid at UK clinics. Read this article to get the truth.
Part 4: Should I Pay More For Wavefront? What is the Truth?
Is wavefront laser eye surgery worth it? Find out the answers here.
Part 3. Should I Pay More For Wavefront LASIK? Will I See Better?
Should I Pay More For Wavefront LASIK? Will I See Better? Get all the answers in this blog post.
Part 2. Expensive Laser Eye Surgery – Is It Worth It?
Do laser eye surgery clinics try to sell you on the most expensive treatments? Are these expensive treatments no better than the cheaper ones? Is there really any difference between blade LASIK and the newer (more expensive) blade free dual laser option?
What is going to happen to laser eye surgery prices?
Overall all laser eye surgery prices are increasing or set to increase. The cost of new technology to give you better and safer surgery is very high and needs to be constantly updated
Laser Eye Surgery Prices
For LASIK pricing, there are two common ways to charge. The first is 1 price for all prescriptions – in effect the lower prescriptions are subsidising the higher more difficult cases. The second method, used by ourselves and some others, is to charge based upon the prescription.
LASIK prices go up at Optimax while headline price falls to match Optical Express
Optimax, one of the UK’s big 3 laser eye chains, has made a significant price hike for their wavefront LASIK treatment, the UK’s most popular type of vision correction. Patients will now pay an additional £480
Ultralase laser eye surgery prices go up even further
Ultralase laser eye surgery chain has increased prices again. Their price for Intralase LASIK including the upgrade for wavefront based correction is now £1,945 per eye.
Join our LASIK price poll – make your vote count
How much do you want to pay for LASIK eye surgery? Most people are voting that LASIK laser eye surgery prices should be under £1,000 per eye. If you haven’t yet voted, look over to the lower right hand side bar and have YOUR say!
Nearly 80% of people want sub £1,000 price LASIK laser eye surgery
If you want, click here to see a price comparison of various prescriptions at several laser eye surgery clinics. Please ensure that you check the final price you will be charged at any clinic you are evaluating prior to going ahead.
LASIK Poll – how much do you want to pay for LASIK?
The results of the first 50 people to poll our blog are now in! Nearly 4 out of 5 people want to pay no more than £1,000 per eye for their LASIK laser eye surgery. This price is considerably lower than most clinics are actually charging for laser vision correction per eye. Despite headline grabbing [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Laser Eye Surgery Prices Plummet!
Prices for laser eye surgery treatment in the UK have fallen by up to 80% for correction of short sight. However, tremendous variation between clinics means a difference in price of up to £4,000 ($8,000) for the same glasses prescription. You can see the press release article on the fall in LASIK laser eye surgery [...]
LASIK Price Poll
Most people are voting that LASIK laser eye surgery prices should be under £1,000 per eye. If you haven’t yet voted, look over to the right hand side bar and have YOUR say!
How much would YOU pay for laser eye surgery?
Join our poll on the right side of this page!
LASIK prices – what it REALLY costs.
See our featured article on LASIK prices and what the real costs are at various clinics. You can see the £395 headline price from Optical Express and Optimax is not what you will pay at all when you want modern wavefront LASIK. Those prices are for non-wavefront treatments and you have to pay extra if [...]
How Much Should You Pay for LASIK?
Here you have a comparison of what LASIK costs at London LASIK clinics. You can see 4 typical prescriptions and what each clinic charges – and you will see the huge variation in LASIK laser eye surgery prices! For example, for a simple -1 dioptre correction there is an enormous variation in LASIK cost. The [...]
Watch the new Z LASIK Laser Eye Treatment now!
OK, it’s here at FOCUS Laser Vision in London. The video of our breakthrough next generation Z-LASIK laser eye surgery procedure! I can tell you the results have been amazing. Twelve treatments on our first day, and everyone can see better than 20/20, 60% of them seeing an incredible 20/12! (that’s two lines smaller than [...]
What is it like to have Z-LASIK laser eye surgery?
You can hear Bella Roberts talking with me just 24 hours after her breakthrough Z-LASIK laser eye treatment. You can read more about Z-LASIK in my previous posts, and compare to Bella talking about her LASIK just before having the surgery! www.youtube.com/watch?v=JmZZ6wWiBH8 Why have Z-LASIK all-laser eye treatment? Why have FOCUS Laser Vision spent more [...]
Z-LASIK laser eye surgery has arrived!
Z-LASIK laser eye treatment has arrived in London. The first procedure happened at FOCUS Laser Vision on Thursday January 17th 2008. Yours truly was the surgeon behind the wheel. I did 12 Z-LASIK treatments and by the next day every patient could see better than 20/20! It’s a pretty amazing technology.Bella Roberts was the first [...]
hi Dave, I will reply directly with my team, but yes, LASIK plus the KAMRA inlay is the most advanced ...
I WAS TOLD 3 YEARS AGO I COULD NOT HAVE LASER SURGERY FOR READING MY LONG DISTANCE WAS OK AT ...
Hi there, first of all this is an excellent site!
I am having LASIK this week (with one of the ...
Thanks so much for your reply Doctor. Just to get your opinion on a few points you missed out:
1. What's ...
Hi Dave again,
Thank you for all your responses. I've been finding this blog very informative and useful.
One further question I ...
Yes, this is what I meant, blurry at distance.
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Hi David,
Hope you don’t mind me getting involved in this thread, but I have been advised I have some dryness ...
hi....i have cornea thickness of 480...and have been advised for bladless lasik surgery ....please advise is it safe or is ...
Dear David,
Many thanks - I'll start taking the flaxseed oil as you suggest and plan to travel to London ...
Hi Dave,
I Type this with great concern, my night vision has not improved since i got the C TEN procdure ...
Hello Dave,
I'm 38 and looking at having LASIK. My vision is -6.50 in the right and -6.00 in the left. ...