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Mr. Dave Allamby FRCS FRCOphth is a London-based LASIK laser refractive surgeon and heads up FOCUS Laser Vision. 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 rock giant Rick Wakeman and broadcaster Paul Ross. FOCUS is a world-leading clinic in the treatment of presbyopia, or age related loss of close vision and offers LASIK laser eye treatment for short sight or long sight.

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Z-LASIK laser eye surgery has arrived!

January 19th, 2008 • Related • Filed Under

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 patient to see the difference (pun fully intended!). Bella is 33 and a mother of three. She was quite badly short sighted and has used glasses for most of her life. She had been pretty nervous about laser eye surgery, whether PRK or LASIK, but was convinced by the new Swiss technology and put herself forward as the first ever patient to get Z-LASIK in the UK.You can see Bella talking about her vision and how she feels, just 20 minutes before she gets the op!Z-LASIK uses a new laser to create the flap in the first part of the LASIK procedure, instead of a blade as in traditional LASIK. Getting rid of the blade eliminates many of the main risks from LASIK, when formerly the flap was cut with a fine blade.Treatments start from £595 per eye for all-laser blade free Z-LASIK.

[tags] femtosecond, Ziemer, Intralase, astigmatism, LASEK, laser eye surgery, LASIK, long sight, PRK, short sight [/tags]

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