Reading Glasses Surgery Cost

| Jul 04, 2010 | Comments 2

Liz asked:

Hello, I do not suffer with headaches etc but I do have to be at least a 12 inches away to be able to for example focus on the smallest words of this website. Any nearer and the words are out of focus but I can read them at a distance. How much would it be for you to correct this to at least 20/20 vision please? Many thanks, Liz.

Liz, you have presbyopia so reading vision is getting blurry, but the distance vision remains clear. This happens to everyone starting in their 40s. Sometimes only one eye needs to be treated if there is no distance glasses prescription, which is about 15% of presbyopic patients. Presbyopic treatments need to be performed very accurately and choice of surgeon (and technology) becomes even more important that in myopia correction (distance vision, short-sight). The cost at Focus is £2,200 per eye. Regards, Dave

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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. DR L says:
    August 26, 2011 at 10:52 am

    I know CK is not so popular at the moment, but for someone like myself who is (R +1, L plano) it would be the treatment I would prefer.
    If the correction to L eye was plano that would be fine, and it it overshoots and makes me slightly shortsighted that would be fine too – i.e. Monovision

    Is there anywhere in the UK I can still get CK or equivalent treatment?
    Thanks

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    • Dave Allamby says:
      August 26, 2011 at 3:04 pm

      hi Dr L, I think CK was a good treatment for its day, and I have many, many happy CK patients. I have performed more CK than anyone in Europe, possible the world, so know all there is to know about the procedure. But it had its day, and has now been surpassed by other treatments, for both accuracy, vision, and long term stability, and which are just as safe, and the manufacturer went out of business for this reason. Get Z-LASIK instead, and you will not regret the choice.
      Regards, Dave

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