How Much Should You Pay for LASIK?
Dave Allamby | Jan 25, 2008 | Comments 153
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 lowest is £295 per eye for wavefront LASIK and £595 for femtosecond laser blade free LASIK at FOCUS Laser Vision (www.focusclinics.com). The highest are £2145 at Moorfields eye hopspital (www.moorfields.nhs.uk) and £2250 at Centre for Sight in East Grinstead (www.centreforsight.com).
All three centres offer fellowship-trained specialist NHS London teaching hospital consultant surgeons and advanced wavefront LASIK treatments. Yet the difference in price (money you will save) is up to £3,000-£4,000 for both eyes treated for a -1D correction. For an common prescription, e.g. -2.75/-1.50 x 90, you will still save up to £2,600 from the cheapest to most expensive. And this includes teaching hospital NHS consultant surgeons at both centres, plus the best blade free all laser LASIK option. It’s a remarkable price difference.
The chart below shows prices for wavefront keratome (mechanical) LASIK laser eye surgery. Optimax and Optical Express will charge approximately £300 more per eye for all laser blade free LASIK, as do FOCUS Laser Vision. London Vision Clinic and Centre for Sight include blade free in the prices shown. Ultralase only now offer blade free LASIK but curiously still offer non-wavefront treatments, and so are not in the chart below. They charge £1895 per eye for wavefront blade free LASIK.
Check out this chart for London centres. More on this coming soon. 
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Dear Dave. I have been to both Ultralase and Optical Express for my consultations and still so very worried that it will not work for me. I appreciate there are many people who it has worked for but also there are people it is has not been so great for. I have been recommended your clinic so would be interested to come along for a consultation however I would be interested to meet with the surgeon as part of the consultation – is this possible? Thank you.
hi Thanh
Yes, our Z-LASIK is similar to Optical Express’s Intralase wavefront treatment. We use the Ziemer laser instead of the Intralase for the flap part and for me it is better technology, but no major difference from your point of view in the experience of the surgery. Both those lasers will do a great job of a blade free flap creation. For the second stage of the procedure, reshaping the cornea, our vision laser is German rather than American. But again, both good machines.
For price, based on your numbers which we can confirm at consultation, OE is about £1600 per eye whereas FOCUS is £1345 per eye so you will save £500.
Why the difference in price? We grow by word of mouth and don’t spend the millions that OE need to do to feed and grow their many clinics. We are a single specialist clinic with NHS teaching hospital corneal consultant surgeons and also deal in corneal diseases, glaucoma etc – OE just isn’t the same kind of centre; they are a commercial laser eye clinic. I have set our prices below OE exactly because I want patients to be able to get Harley Street specialist consultant quality at an affordable price.
If you come along for a consult, you will definitely see the difference at our centre! It is quite special.
Take care, Dave
Hi Cathy
I remember traveling in Asia. Fantastic experience so pls enjoy! Yes, you will be fine two months after LASIK so no reason not to go ahead with your trip.
Have fun!
Dave
Dear Dave
I am thinking of having Lasik surgery. However I will be going travelling for three months to Asia two months after the Lasik operation. Is this safe and do you think this is a sensible decision?
Thanks for your help.
Cathy
Hi Dave,
I’ve been quoted £3,200 from Optical Exp. for the Intralase, Lasik Wavefront. This was recommended by friends who had treatment done there, I dont know anyone how has been to Focus. But from what I have read from this website, I could get the same treatment (Z Lasik) and save money, I am confused on how the price could vary so much. Can you give me a 2nd opinion quote.
Right eye: Sphere: -5.25, Cylinder: 0.50 Axis: 180
Left eye: Sphere: -5.00, Cylinder: 0.25, Axis: 160
I look forward to hearing from you. Thanks.
Thanh
Hi Kay
Great questions! Thank you! In fact, I liked them so much I will write a series of answers over the next 3-4 days as blog posts to cover all your points, entitled ‘Kay’s Questions” !
Series starts tomorrow. How does that sound?
Best regards
Dave
Hi Vikki
Delighted to be able to help. Please enjoy your new high-definition eyes!
The surgery is so quick, isn’t it?!
Warm regards
Dave
Hi Dave
I am exploring having laser surgery and was hoping you could clarify a few points for me please?
Both Optimax and Optical Express suggested that I go for blade free Wavefront treatment, but also said I could opt for the cheaper treatments. If technology is now more advanced and the blade free method is considered safer how is it ethical to allow patients to opt for a sub-standard treatment?
Statistics published on complications and results achieved seem to be quite limited (i.e based on a small amount of patients compared to the 2 million a year having treatment)but overall (from my limited reading) there does not appear to be that much difference between microkeratome Lasik and blade free Lasik. Is there any studies or statistic that you can point me in the direction of to support either treatment?
At a third consultation (at the Birkdale Clinic) the surgeon strongly recommended Lasek over Lasik on the grounds of biomechanical stability. (This is a link to an article on this subject for anybody else researching this subject www.otmagazine.co.uk/articles/docs/98b3f4f1a6338c3d722db8ec550fab58_shah20030613.pdf) The same surgeon also suggested after my eye exam that Wavefront treatment for me would not necessarily offer any additional benefits.
Im now completely confused as I can’t work out whether the first mentioned clinics are trying to sell me the most expensive treatment to get more money or if the Birkdale is behind on the technology front. (The Birkdale do offer Wavefront Lasik and Lasek but not blade free).
Do you think some clinics are pushing the more expensive treatments to pay for the lasers they have already invested without the evidence being conclusive at this stage as to whether it will achieve better results?
Finally when I rang Focus to obtain some information I was told that you would probably not even treat my right eye as the prescription is too low. My prescription is
RIGHT SPH -050 CYL -075 AXIS 110
LEFT SPH -025 CYL -225 AXIS 90
Obviously there is a huge difference between £0 to not treat the eye and £1700 at other clinics. Is there any way to get independent advice (outside of the clinics selling the procedure) on what the best treatment for me is?
Apologies for the extremely long post
Kind regards
Kay
Hi,
I just wanted to say a great big thank you. You operated on my eyes last week and they are fantastic… I have recommended this to several people i work with ( at Southend hospital), all of who’m will be in touch shortly!
It is so lovely to be able to wake up and see an alarm clock and i cannot thank you enough for this.
Once again, thank you so much…
With Kind regards
Vikki.
Hi Una
Yes, as long as your myopia is stable, you could be fine for laser eye treatment, depending on a full exam and consultation of course. We will look then at how you would handle blended vision and advise you.
I certainly have successfully treated patients with blended vision who did not do that well with contact lens monovision. Best choice is to come for a consultation to get a better understanding of you and your eyes.
Thanks for writing
Dave
Dear Ali
Based on your numbers (need to confirm at consultation) wavefront M-LASIK would be £1095 for one eye and £1195 for the other (worse) eye. If you would like advanced blade free wavefront LASIK just add £350 per eye.
Thanks
Dave
Hi
Thinking of having lasik blade free. Been short-sighted since 11y/o with age-related long-sightedness (onset 2 yrs). Have tried monovision with lenses but not hugely successful. My current lenses are not optimal for either correcting myopia or as monovision – been wearing these for 11/12 now so time for review anyway. Prior to the age-related changes my myopia script was pretty much unchanged for many years.
I’d probably go for the myopia correction but haven’t totally ruled out the blended vision option. Would I still be suitable for surgery even though not ‘stable’ as such because optician has varied script for monovision?
Thanks
i am thinking about lazer treatment but because of money worries can’t go ahead
my prescripition is -6.00 and -7.75 how much will it cost me
Dear Chris
You want to look at safety, always. For that choose blade-free dual laser LASIK (flap created without a blade, no real post op pain, good vision in about 3-4 hours) or PRK (surface laser, no flap, but painful after for 2 days and takes 5-7 days for vision to recover).
Always get the wavefront option which will give you better high definition vision and night vision.
Blade free wavefront LASIK is the most popular version – better vision and no blade. At FOCUS, all our treatments are wavefront.
If price is a big issue, you could go for PRK instead – this is a surface laser correction. Need a few days off work and can be pretty painful afterwards. Not very popular compared to LASIK
Prices for your numbers are the same for each eye:
Blade free dual laser wavefront LASIK = £1145 per eye
Wavefront PRK = £795 per eye
If you can afford it, go for the blade free LASIK option, wavefront included. Patients love it. You may be suitable for financing through FOCUS if you want to spread the payments.
Regards
Dave
Hi I am 24 and I am looking into getting laser surgery for my short sightedness. Can you give me a rough quote please.. I am a bit conufused with the different procedures
My prescription is R -3.00SPH -0.25CYL 35.0 Axis
L -3.00SPH -0.50CYL 130.0 Axis
Thanks in advance
Hi Susan
Your right eye prescription has changed significantly, whereas the left appears stable. The astigmatism (irregularity) in your right eye prescription increased from 1 unit to 2.25 units over 18 months to April 08. Usually this is related to contact lenses so I would need to know more about whether you were wearing lenses in Dec 06 through to April 08 and if not, when did you stop wearing them? There are other problems that can happen with the cornea (the clear window at the front of the eye) to cause increasing astigmatism, and we would need to exclude those.
Basically, let me know the history of your contact lens use and then I can advise you better about the likelihood of you being stable enough for laser treatment. We really need to do a consultation with special scans to know more.
Also, having significant astigmatism makes a blended vision trial quite difficult and would diminish likely success of contact lens monovision. However, a failed contact lens monovision trial does not mean that blended vision wont work. I have done plenty of patients who didn’t get on with lens monovision but who were delighted with blended vision. Contrary to a widely held view amongst eye clinicians, contact lens trials for monovision are not overly helpful for laser eye surgery blended vision.
If you are happy to get good distance vision and wear reading glasses as needed then that simplifies everything. You could have laser blended vision and if you didn’t ultimately get on with it, you could have an enhancement so both eyes are then focused for distance vision and go back to only reading glasses.
If you are determined that you only want surgery to get rid of all glasses for everything and wouldn’t be happy to still need reading glasses, then it will be hard to promise that result.
Still, the main thing is first to work out what is going on with your increasing astigmatism. Pls book in for a consultation at FOCUS.
Regards
Dave
Hi Steph
Thanks for booking in. You will get an very comprehensive set of tests and we can confirm your prescription. If you can see well with your current glasses then that prescription will be very close to your true measurements. It will be checked FOUR times with us anyway, at your appointment,and twice again before the actual surgery!
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. So the easier the treatment and the simpler the case, the less that patient pays – and vice versa. This seems the fairer way overall.
Also, younger patients (who are mainly short sighted) generally have less money and so can more easiy afford to have laser eye treatment with FOCUS, as their prescriptions come in at a lower rate. Long sighted treatments are more complex (we specialise in these, unlike most clinics) and are more expensive. These patients are typically in the 40s and 50s and often can often afford a bit higher price.
I know it sounds rather like Robin Hood(!) but allows more people to get a superb level of treatment with a very experienced surgeon, with lots more time in a relaxed clinic, away from a high-volume quick turnaround setup.
I really have tried to make top-end ‘Harley Street’ laser eye treatment available to more people, hopefully in a fairer way. I wish everyone with glasses could afford to come for treatment but, if you see my answer to Kat above, this is not likely to happen.
Best regards
Dave
Hi Dave,
Thanks very much for your honesty. I have been in touch with Paula and have arranged for a consultation which I know will give me more information. Is it possible that you may find that my eyes aren’t as bad as my prescription states? I was looking forward to doing without glasses completely but it appears I will still need them for work. Can I just ask how you come to a cost for laser surgery? Isn’t the treatment the same for ie, all Wavefront or all Lasik or all Lasek? I can understand the high prices for the RLE due to the nature of the surgery but I just assumed that the laser treatment came in bands depending on the type of treatment rather than how bad my eyesight is.
Many thanks.
I am interested in blended vision surgery. I tried monovision contact lenses and found medium distance fine but neither close up or far sight good enough. Are much better results achieved with blended vision particularly near sight? My last prescription taken 2/4/08 was R eye sph -3.50 cyl -2.25 axis 90 L eye sph -5.00 cyl -0.75 axis 85 and both eyes add +1.75
The eye test before this was on 22/12/06 and was R -4.00, -1.00, 105 and L -5.00, -.50, 91 both add near +1.75
Have I left it long enough to check whether my prescription is stable enough to have a consultation? ( I am planning to come to London at the end of October.)
Regards
Dear Kat
Even though we have the UK’s best prices, overall all laser eye surgery prices are increasing. The cost of new technology to give you better and safer surgery is very high and needs to be constantly updated.
For example, laser clinics used to need one laser at a cost of £1/3 million. Now they need two to offer blade free dual laser LASIK, total cost £2/3 million and treatment prices are no different on average to back in 2000. In a nutshell it costs a lot to do this type of treatment and costs are only increasing. The benefit of that though: highly accurate treatments with better safety than ever before.
At FOCUS, we made a decision to buy the very best technology and to bring that to the UK at the lowest price so that more people could afford to get fantastic levels of surgeon, service and technology, all without compromise. That is not hype. It is just what we have wanted to do.
But all of that does cost and has to be paid for. And no government bail-outs for anyone in healthcare! Unlike some banks we have to be prudent, cautious and look after our customers without risk so that we will be here next week, next month and next year and still here for our patients.
Price wars in the US a few years ago meant cheaper surgery at first. Then lots of bankrupt clinics closing with patients having to pay all over again in order to get their aftercare. Not a good result for patients in the end.
Regards
Dave
hi Steph
if we aim for distance vision correction you will be happy with the result of laser eye surgery. this is £1845 per eye. if we aim also for reading vision correction, you will initially be good for both close and far, but as you have a bad degree of long sight and you are only 52, it is highly likely that your eyes will continue to get worse and you would loose that reading benefit. so better not to try to do something that will not last long. the distance improvement will be more effective but your eyes have not finished getting worse i am afraid.
the other option is to go for reading/distance lens implants in both eyes, similar to a cataract operation, and long sighted patients are usually happier with that approach overall. More expensive operation which is done in a hospital theatre. Costs are £3000 per eye for multifocal reading implants.
Hope that explains more!
Dave
Hi Dave,
I’m 52. Does this mean that I won’t be suitable for the treatment?
Steph.
I am a middle class working 33-year old (Somerset) and dream of having my short sight corrected. I am shocked how much this cost as advertising is always so optimistic and when you look into it truth is totally different, sadly. It’ s so painfull to see all those thousants of people being able to afford it and I can’t. Laser eye surgery has been around for years now and so I would expect the prices to go down – but instead you have increased yours. I never thought I was poor but this has opened my eyes and made me realised I simply can not afford it althought millions can. Where do people get money for it? And where is the justice when us, who were born shortsighted, have to pay thousands just be be closer to normal??? So not fair…
David, have you got an idea, if the prices will go down in the future?
hi Steph
You have a very high long sighted prescription as I am sure you know! Laser correction here is best aimed at distance correction as the reading benefit does tend to decrease with time because of the extreme correction needed. Can I ask please how old you are?! Dave
Hi Dave,
I have been reading your questions and answers page and no-one seems to have a + prescription. My right eye is sphere +4.25, cylinder -0.75, axis 85 and my left eye is sphere +4.50, cylinder -0.50, axis 120 which I think will be for distance and both eyes are plus 2.00 for close work. This is my latest prescription, tested in June this year. I have varifocal lenses. What sort of cost would I be looking at for both distance correcion and also distance plus reading correction?
Thanks
Steph.
Thanks for your kind words John!
If your -1.5 eye is the dominant one (we will test for that) then you might just treat that eye and leave the -0.75 alone to help with presbyopia in your 40s. You compromise a bit on the best distance vision, but only a bit, and it would keep you out of reading glasses until around 50. You could then have the -0.75 eye treated to boost the reading.
We follow all patients for 1 year and any adjustments are usually around 12 weeks after LASIK (with our Z-LASIK blade free technology enhancements are now pretty rare). Myopic corrections are very stable at this level so I wouldnt expect to do anything again to your distance eye. Presbyopia will be the issue for you.
Hope that helps
David
Dear Mr Allamby
I’m impressed by the professionalism and your transparent (no pun intended) approach on this and the focusclinics.com site. I’m considering blade-free Z-lazik with you. I do have two questions to which I can’t find an answer however:
First, what is the aftercare deal – in other words, should re-treatment be necessary, either immediately or some years later (other than due to presbyopia), what guarantees do you offer?
Second, I’m approaching 40, have mild short sight (-0.75 and -1.5) and no sign so far of presbyopia. I understand that treatment will effectively hasten its onset however since my short sight will no longer be available to balance the ageing lens and muscle. What is a realistic strategy, thinking say 5-10 years ahead – get treatment now based on my current script, and accept it’ll be reading glasses later, consider a second treatment when the time comes, or what?
Thanks for your help
John
Dear Franceso
Yes, Z-LASIK is suitable for your prescription and you would need one day for the surgery and the next day for the post op check. you can go back to work straight after that.
Optimized treatment works best for most prescriptions. You will get more info at the consultation.
Pls call to FOCUS on 0845 5000 500 and they can help with pricing directly.
regards
David
Hi,
I have mild astigmatism with no long or short sight. Is Lasik suitable for this?
Would you be able to give me a rough quote for blade free Wavefront Z-Lasik?
I’m 36 and my prescription is:
R Sph: plano, Cyl: -2.25, Axis: 100
L Sph: plano, Cyl: -1.75, Axis: 80
I’m a computer programmer and I normally work longish hours 10-11 per day. How much time away from work would you recommend after having the surgery?
Final question; the FDA results list Wavefront Optimized and Wavefron Guided separately. What is the difference and which do you recommend?
many thanks,
Francesco
Thank you for the reply.Please feel free to post what ever you want.
Tim
ps can you run a comptetion for free treatment maybe you could draw a picture and the person who comes up with the best caption could win a free treatment or some vouchers for 20 – 50% off for example.Just a thought as i like entering competitions.
Hi Maggie
sorry for the delay, as away on hols still.
The prices for you prescription, approx, likely to be £1020 for one eye and £1120 for the other (worse) eye.
Prices going up mid Sept but can hold if you have your consult prior to then, even if treatment not taken place.
thanks
Dave
Hi Gavin
Hope the GP world is treating you well. Have treated quite a few medics and they do tend to the nervous side! The blade free dual laser LASIK will give you the safest approach.
You are very close to presbyopia so would likely need LASIK blended vision to give good distance and near. You would likely need reading glasses very soon after the op if we just correct the distance vision.
But the choice would be your yours. Dual laser blended vision for distance AND near correction is £1995 per eye. If you opt for distance vision correction and are happy to wear reading glasses, the price would be around £1220 per eye, for the next month. The latter price will increase a bit in mid Sept.
Hope this helps
Dave
Hi Paula
No problem if we asked you to wait because of the contact lenses. We will defintely honour the old price for you.
Perhaps you could print this page and bring along on your treatment day so that there is no confusion on the treatment fee.
thanks
Dave
As a 48 year-old GP I’m a nervous prospect for Lasik but find the tone of your site and straightforward answers refreshing in a hype-filled field. My script is -5.00/-0.25 and -4.75/-0.75 with no near vision problems so far. This seems to fit your range so wonder what technique you would recommend and how much it might cost…and what the thoughts are on best options for divers/windsurfers. Thanks for any advice.
Dear Dr Allamby,
a while ago I wrote to the blog to enquire about the IntraLasik with the femtosecond technology; as a result I booked a consultation. On our correspondence I provided you with my prescription details, for which I obtained a quote. As I have been wearing contact lenses for 20 yeas (a mixture of PMMAs and Gas Permeables) it’s safe for me to wait 8 weeks before the consultation, which takes me to October.
Yesterday, however, I have received your newsletter stating that prices will probably go up in September, which puts me in a position of disadvantage due to the time I have to wait before the operation. On this basis, can you tell me if the prices you quoted me are likely to change?
With many thanks for your kind reply.
Paula
hi Tim
Yes, it can be a good idea and would certainly save me some time.
I find the comparison with other centres also very useful for patients. Ultralase and Optimax, as well as pretty much all other centres, make their price (one price for all prescriptions mainly) available on their respective sites.
The main exception appears to be Optical Express where it seems nigh on impossible to get the prescription price from the call centre before attending for a consultation.
So it is not easy to be sure of every prescription, but we have lots of people who have already had a consult at OE and found that the price is higher than they expected – and end up coming for surgery with us. So we have lots of data points to put that together, but would need a rider to say only OE can confirm a price and ours would be assumptive and for guidance only.
Please call OE if you like and let me know if you have success or not getting a quote over the phone.
At FOCUS, we have one price only for when we combine reading and distance corrections for those age 45+, either £1695 for M-LASIK and £1995 for Z-LASIK, so that one’s easy.
We do a prescription based model for distance vision correction for either short or long sight, and we have our starting price on the Treatment & Costs page. We start at £295 for myopia and £995 for hyperopia (long sight). NOTE: some of our prices will certainly be going up in September, as we are cheaper for some prescriptions compared to the competition. We need to make it more realistic going forward.
It would be fairly easy to code for a “Enter Your Prescription Here” box, and also present prices at other London clinics plus the money saved by choosing FOCUS.
Hope that (longer than planned!) answer helps…! Would you mind if I posted this reply to you on the main blog?
Dave
P.S. We DO INVITE everyone to let us have the prescription first so that we can quote over the phone and save people a journey if it looks too expensive. It just wastes everyone’s time otherwise and can build bad feeling.
Any chance of putting on the webpage a little “Calculator” type package so we could pop in our pre-scriptions and get a quote.This would free you up as you spend a lot of time answering these questions and we could ask you more interesting things.It would also be more useful for us and the potential customers.Thanks Tim
Hi Anne
thank you for your message.
Your prescription does fall in the range of who we can often help. I have treated many similar prescription in patients of a similar age.
I can tell you more accurately after a consultation of course but based on your numbers, there is no obvious reason to not look further.
Prices for treatment depend on the prescription and the outcome desired. Our lowest prices are for short sight (glasses for e.g. driving etc) and these are the ones that will be going up.
You have long sight as well as reading trouble so we would want to fix two problems at the same time, aiming to clear both the distance AND reading vision.
TO just correct your distance vision would be around £1100 per eye for blade wavefront LASIK or about £1500 per eye for blade free wavefront LASIK.
To correct distance and reading would be, per eye, £1695 for wavefront LASIK with a blade, or £1995 for dual laser blade free LASIK.
These prices are not changing at present so no need to rush in. I have a waiting time for surgery now of about two months as we are heavily booked.
If you would like a consultation at FOCUS, just quote LT01 and then there is no charge for that.
Thanks for your mail
David
Dear Dr. Allamby,
I have been looking at the Focus website and wonder if you could advise me if you have any treatment that will be suitable for my requirements. I am aged 61, started wearing reading glasses at approx. the age of 47, and was advised to start wearing glasses for TV and driving approximately 3 years ago. My last prescription for my right eye was Sph:distance +1.25 and near +3.50. Cyl: distance and near -0.25. Axis: distance and near 75.0. My left eye was Sph: distance +1.50 and near +3.75. Cyl: distance and near both -0.50. Axis: distance and near both 90.0 I would like to have the latest no-blade lazer treatment and my dream would be not to have to wear glasses for reading or driving etc. Is this possible and what sort of cost am I looking at – hopefully, also taking advantage of your special offer for treatment of surgery date before end of Sepember, 08, as I am available for treatment at any time, as I am retired.
Look forward to your comments.
Anne.
hi Maggie
We are compiling results right now for blade free laser flaps versus blade flaps. Early results are fairly compelling in that the results are significantly more accurate with less chance of a re-do procedure, vision settles more quickly and there seems to be less dryness afterwards.
Further, the thin laser flaps leave the eye stronger and will heal more strongly. We will continue to gather data on both methods so we make our decision on a scientific basis. I dont see any advantages beyond price for choosing a blade (keratome) flap cut.
I will post more on this topic next week.
For you numbers, the right eye looks the same at £1020 for bladeless wavefront LASIK, where the worse left eye will be £100 (maybe £200) more, depending on what we measure at your consultation.
Please quote LT01 if you would like a free consultation with us.
Thanks
Dave
Dear Dr Allamby,
Thanks for your prompt response.
In order to have a definitive result that will not trigger a re-operation which procedure do you suggest? From your articles it sounds as if the blade free procedure offers better vision with a lower risk, but I wonder if the blade wavefront LASIK has additional benefits, apart from being cheaper.
As for my prescription details, my apologies, I actually copied and pasted your previous blogger’s details (Paula) to make my life easier and overtype mine, but I sent you my details before actually editing the coordinates. Please let me know if the quote changes greatly.
These are:
Right eye: Sphere: -3.25, Cylinder: 0.50
Left eye: Sphere: -4.75, Cylinder: 0.25, Axis: 80
Age: still 37
With many thanks for your feedback.
Maggie Septe
Hi Maggie
Yes, femtosecond lasers appear to be safer than mechanical blade cut techniques ( I will be posting on this topic very soon).
There are now four lasers available for blade free LASIK, and the Intralase machine was the first. However, we have bought the next generation Swiss Ziemer laser which appears to us to be superior in performance. But both will do a very good job of creating a LASIK flap without need for a blade.
Curiously your prescription is identical to another just posted from Paula…
If you opt for blade free wavefront LASIK the price per eye will be £1020, or £795 for blade wavefront LASIK.
…and our client portfolio is heavily booked up so we wont lower these excellent prices further! I suggest booking soon as the prices will go up after September.
Thanks
Dave
Dear Dr Allamby,
I have read about the Intralase Lasik and it seems to be safer than the traditional Lasik procedure with the mechanical flap cut.
At this stage, can you confirm if you offer the Intralase Lasik, and a can you provide me with a quote for the following:
Age: 37
Right Sphere: -3.25
Left Sphere: -3.25, Cylinder: -0.25, Axis: 80
Also, due to the competitive offers available in the market (mostly led by Optimax), at this stage, do you envisage offering competitive prices to beat the competition and increase your client portfolio?
Many Thanks
Maggie
Hi Omer, yes can let you have the prices, no problem.
No problem. Based on those numbers, wavefront M-LASIK (keratome) would be per eye:
FOCUS Laser Vision: £895
As a comparison for the same prescription:
Optical Express: £1295
Optimax: £1,295
Ultralase: £1,945 (dual laser)
Moorfields Eye Hospital: £2,145
If you want the safer dual laser (blade free) wavefront Z-LASIK, prices per eye are:
FOCUS Laser Vision: £1220
As a comparison for the same prescription:
Optical Express: £1,595
Optimax: £1,685
Ultralase: £1,945
Moorfields Eye Hospital: £2,145
Recent research from the USA comparing blade free (femtosecond laser) versus traditional blade LASIK showed better vision results with more patients getting better than 20/20 with the femtosecond laser blade free approach. According to the report 18% more patients who had the blade free correction were seeing better than 20/20 one week after surgery:
# In a study of different methods to create the LASIK flap, 370 naval personnel underwent bilateral (both eyes) wavefront-guided LASIK with either the femtosecond laser (blade free) or microkeratome blade. One week after surgery more than 76 percent of femtosecond laser patients achieved an uncorrected visual acuity of at least 20/16 (better than 20/20) compared to only 58 percent of microkeratome patients
Hope this helps!
Dave
Hi David,
Could you tell me what would be the cost of an M-Lasik and Z-Lasik treatment at your clinic for a -5.00 x -0.25 prescription (both eyes)?
Also, could you point me to any literature available on the advantages (or disadvantages) of the blade free treatment versus traditional LASIK?
Many thanks!
Omer
Dear Peter, thanks for your questions.
We do all procedures, including PRK/LASEK and LASIK. Prices vary according to prescription. For a plain -1.75 prescription, prices are:
£495 per eye for either PRK/LASEK or blade wavefront M-LASIK
£820 per eye for blade free all-laser wavefront Z-LASIK
Wavefront (superior vision) is included as standard. Most patients (90%) choose blade free LASIK which we have found to be very safe, now that the blade has been eliminated. I believe Optimax recommend PRK for lower levels of myopia, but we dont. The patient can choose the procedure that they want.
The final level of vision is the same for all procedures. You will see well within 4 hours from blade free Z-LASIK. PRK/LASEK will take about 4 days for your vision to recover, so you need sometimes a week off work with this option, plus with the post-op pain, this is not so popular. LASIK is pretty much pain free.
Hope this helps
David
Hi David,
I have a low miopia -1.75 (both eyes), some doctors suggest me to go for a PRK or a LASEK, they said to me that lasik even with the ultralase option is for my case not the most appropriate option, moreover they say to me that Lasik in general is risker (because of flap).
Does Focus Clinic offers PRK and LASEK?
If yes what laser uses and what are is prices?
For low degree of miopia which tecnique is the most appropriate(for. till -3.00 degree of miopia)?
Thanks
Peter
Hi David, I have just been to a consultation with Optical Express and they told me that the laser machine they are using is the only one in the world to treat 240 parts of the eyes instead of only 80 with the machine used by Focus clinic. My chances to get 20/20 with Optical Express are more higher than with any other clinics. Is that right?
Hi David. I have written a longer reply directly to you, but overall, you can expect to pay only £995 per eye for wavefront LASIK with this highish prescription. If you opt for advanced dual laser technology, the price would be a bit higher.
Dave Allamby
Hi!
I see a comparison of costs on your website and I do know that each individual prescription will undoubtedly bring its own unique cost. Can you give me a ballpark figure, as in the examples given for the many laser-capable surguries in London, for a prescription of -6.75x-1.50×170. This is one of my eyes, however both eyes are similar in requirement and a ballpark fiqure would give me guidance on affordability.
Thank you
D K Woods
Hi Kirsty
We would need to check your dryness and measure it. You can take flaxseed oil capsules which often help (4 grams daily starting 6 weeks before your consultation/surgery). Having the infection previously is no problem unless it was diagnosed as herpes virus.
Best regards
Dave