Denise Van Outen treated at FOCUS Laser Vision in London

Dave Allamby | May 16, 2010 | Comments 2

I recently treated Denise Van Outen at my clinic and you can see the full story in today’s Daily Mail. We also made the front page with a leader. The phone’s were ringing non-stop!
You can watch Denise in the video below, or click to see her full story on Denise Van Outen and her laser eye surgery in London at the Daily Mail’s website.

Denise can now see better than 20/20 in each eye and is delighted with the result. She had the operation to get ready for climbing Kilimanjaro next month for Comic Relief without her contact lenses.

Watch Denise in her own words talking about her recent laser eye surgery at FOCUS Laser Vision. Denise explains about her problems wearing glasses or contact lenses while working as a TV presenter and what led up to her decision to go ahead with laser eye surgery.

Denise opted for the most advanced treatment of Z-LASIK, which is blade free using two lasers for maximum accuracy and safety, plus wavefront optics to give her an outstanding quality of vision.

Click on play below to see the video:

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About the Author: Mr. Dave Allamby FRCS FRCOphth is a leading London-based laser eye surgeon. You may have seen him on the This Morning TV show with Phillip Schofield and Fern Britton or read one of several articles in the national press, recently for treating Denise Van Outen, rock giant Rick Wakeman and broadcaster Paul Ross. David is Medical Director at Focus Laser Vision, known as a world-leading clinic in the treatment of presbyopia, or age related loss of close vision. Focus Laser Vision is also London's only clinic to offer next-generation Z-LASIK laser eye treatment for short sight, long sight or astigmatism.

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  1. misha frost says:
    April 2, 2009 at 10:02 am

    Dear Mr Allamby,

    You have been very highly recommended to me by a former patient of yours, a Robert Shepherd, who is a colleague of my brother’s. I am writing to you for some help as I am feeling distressed and let down by the service I have received from the people at Optical Express.

    Which? magazine recently carried out a survey on this and two other high street clinics and found them lacking on many accounts. This has confirmed my fears that i have not been seem by the best people.

    I don’t feel they were honest at the outset. For example, they gave me the impression that by paying for the most costly treatment, I would get optimum vision. It turned out afterwards that I was only going to get 80% of the optimum as my eyes had not been corrected as a child.

    The treatment I had was Lasek and although I have been told different things about what the problem with my eyes was, I think I had -4.75 in both eyes with some long sightedness. I have always thought I was short sighted.

    The surgeon, Rodney Blumenthal waited till minutes before the treatment to tell me that with the severity of my astigmatism there was a 6-8% chance that it would not work. Of course by then it was too late to change my mind. Even though I probably would have gone ahead with the treatment, I felt this was rather unprofessional and left me feeling worried during the treatment.

    On the post treatment test days my vision has fluctuated, which I was told was normal, but although the optemetrists have told me that I am well within driving standards, I did not pass the sight test when I booked my first driving lesson. This was so disappointing as the main reason I wanted to have the treatment done was so that I could learn to drive. They fixed up glasses for me temporarily, but they don’t seem to make any difference.

    Finally, a couple of weeks ago (2 and a half months after the treatment), I was told that now my eyes have healed, they can tell that there is still an astigmatism of about -1 in both eyes and they are saying that in 3 months I need to have an ‘enhancement’ or top-up treatment.

    I am feeling very anxious about the idea of this, especially as I don’t really trust the optemetrists’s opionion as they always seem to differ. I have never seen the same person twice.

    I have been in touch with OE customer services but as I have already paid the whole £3,400 I get the sense that they are not really motivated to help me.

    I realise that your speciality is in Lasik, but would you be able to give me a second opinion on what I should do?

    I would be most grateful.

    Yours sincerely,

    Michelle Frost.

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    • Dave Allamby says:
      April 4, 2009 at 1:04 pm

      Hi Michelle
      Thanks for your mail and sorry to hear of your story. Could you pls let me know what your full pre-surgery prescription was (should have Sphere, Cylinder and Axis) and your age. Did you pay for the wavefront option with your LASEK? Any history of dry eyes or trouble with contact lenses pre-op?
      I can advise you better with that information. With best regards
      Dave

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