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

| Mar 08, 2008 | Comments 0

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 doing about 80% of all laser eye surgery in the UK, partly because of their wide geographical footprint and so easy access for many people.

Most people really are not sure what to look for in a laser eye surgery provider. They don’t understand the difference between different laser systems and they don’t have easy access to the true performance or knowledge about individual surgeons.

So most people default to the ‘look and feel’ of the website and clinic if and when they attend for a consultation, or follow up from a word of mouth referral to a centre where someone has already had treatment.

Most of the brochures are pretty interchangeable, all making the same claims about experience, technology etc. You could swap the company name and not really notice the difference in various claims.

There are FOUR key points to look at when choosing a clinic, and these are coming tomorrow in my next blog post. Watch this space!!

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Filed Under: Clinics • LASIK • Prices

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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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