All Posts Tagged With: "FOCUS Laser Vision"

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Lifetime Care Guarantee after Laser Eye Surgery

Lifetime care guarantee after laser eye surgery introduced at FOCUS Laser Vision

2Nov2008 | Dave Allamby | 0 comments | Continued
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Kay’s Great Questions: Part 2. Expensive Laser Eye Surgery - Is It Worth It?

Do laser eye surgery clinics try to sell you on the most expensive treatments? Are these expensive treatments no better than the cheaper ones? Is there really any difference between blade LASIK and the newer (more expensive) blade free dual laser option?

19Oct2008 | Dave Allamby | 0 comments | Continued
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Laser Eye Surgery Prices

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.

11Oct2008 | Dave Allamby | 0 comments | Continued
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Wavefront LASIK from £295

FOCUS Laser Vision now offer Wavefront LASIK from only £295 for short sight.
FOCUS is the best price in the UK. Plus offering the proven fastest and safest laser. Plus having super-qualified NHS London teaching hospital corneal and laser specialist surgeons for your treatment. Plus a new state of the art facility in the Harley Street [...]

12Jul2008 | Dave Allamby | 32 comments | Continued
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Laser eye surgery is effective for reading vision

SEVERAL approaches to LASIK are effective in the treatment of reading vision problems (presbyopia) for patients with otherwise normal distance vision, or long or short sight, according to studies presented at the 12th Winter Refractive Meeting of the ESCRS.

26Jun2008 | Dave Allamby | 6 comments | Continued
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Rick Wakeman and his laser eye surgery

Read Rick Wakeman’s story about his laser eye treatment online at the Daily Mail’s website. Rick talks about the whole process in a very interesting article from Rachel Kaufman.

25May2008 | Dave Allamby | 7 comments | Continued
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What kinds of laser eye surgery are there? Part 1

There are three main treatment choices for anyone thinking of having laser eye surgery. But which one will be right for you? Find out in this two part posting for anyone considering laser eye surgery.

19May2008 | Dave Allamby | 6 comments | Continued
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2008 list of all laser eye clinics in Great Britain

A list of all the GB laser eye clinics that have their own laser for patients looking at having laser eye surgery vision correction.

6May2008 | Dave Allamby | 0 comments | Continued
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LASIK prices go up at Optimax while headline price falls to match Optical Express

Optimax, one of the UK’s big 3 laser eye chains, has made a significant price hike for their wavefront LASIK treatment, the UK’s most popular type of vision correction. Patients will now pay an additional £480

30Apr2008 | Dave Allamby | 4 comments | Continued
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Ultralase laser eye surgery prices go up even further

Ultralase laser eye surgery chain has increased prices again. Their price for Intralase LASIK including the upgrade for wavefront based correction is now £1,945 per eye.

29Apr2008 | Dave Allamby | 0 comments | Continued
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9 out of 10 people choose blade free LASIK

Since we introduced the Z-LASIK blade free LASIK laser eye surgery procedure into the UK in January 2008, more than 90% of our patients have opted to go dual laser (no blade) for their vision correction.

27Apr2008 | Dave Allamby | 0 comments | Continued
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LASIK Poll - how much do you want to pay for LASIK?

The results of the first 50 people to poll our blog are now in!
Nearly 4 out of 5 people want to pay no more than £1,000 per eye for their LASIK laser eye surgery. This price is considerably lower than most clinics are actually charging for laser vision correction per eye.
Despite headline grabbing prices of [...]

22Apr2008 | Dave Allamby | 2 comments | Continued
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Why don’t patients care about which eye laser they are treated with?!

Laser eye surgery patients just don’t seem to care!! Why?! Laser vision results have got better and better over the past 15 years - and this is mainly because the lasers have got a lot, LOT better! … We have published all these laser eye surgery results on our www.focusclinics.com website (see them here: http://www.focusclinics.com/treatments_results.php The clear winner so far is the WaveLight Allegretto laser from Germany.

19Apr2008 | Dave Allamby | 0 comments | Continued
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Long sight (hyperopia) correction appears stable up to 5 years after LASIK

Update from the ASCRS in Chicago. LASIK for long sight was shown safe, effective and predictable through 5 years of follow-up.

10Apr2008 | Dave Allamby | 0 comments | Continued
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LASIK & LASEK - which laser eye surgery procedure is best for me?

What is the difference in the two laser eye surgery procedures?
There are basically two laser refractive procedures to correct myopia (short sight), hyperopia (long sight) and astigmatism: 1) LASIK and 2) LASEK. [You can consider LASEK and PRK as basically the same procedure for most discussions - they are both forms of 'surface' [...]

12Mar2008 | Dave Allamby | 0 comments | Continued
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What’s important when choosing a laser eye surgery clinic? Part 2

There are FOUR key points to look at when choosing a clinic:
1. The laser technology
2. The surgeon
3. The clinic
4. The price
Let’s look at these in more detail:

1. Laser technology
The improvements in success rates and safety of laser eye surgery, including LASIK and PRK, have been mainly down to improvements in sophistication of the laser technology. [...]

9Mar2008 | Dave Allamby | 0 comments | Continued
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WaveLight laser owner Alcon boosts sales by 20%

WaveLight AG, which manufactures the FDA-leading Allegretto eye laser system used at FOCUS Laser Vision, was acquired by the major Swiss company Alcon in November 2007.
Alcon, Inc. (ACL), a manufacturer of pharmaceutical and surgical equipments, has posted a 6.1% increase in profit for the fourth quarter from the same period in 2006, boosted by a [...]

8Feb2008 | Dave Allamby | 0 comments | Continued
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Daily Mail covers Z LASIK laser eye surgery event

The Daily Mail featured a half page article this week on the new Z LASIK surgery procedure that took place at FOCUS Laser Vision (http://www.focusclinics.com) on January 18th. Jenny Hope from the Mail wrote a great piece covering the new technology and the impact for Bella Roberts, the first UK patient to get rid of [...]

1Feb2008 | Dave Allamby | 0 comments | Continued
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How Much Should You Pay for LASIK?

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 [...]

25Jan2008 | Dave Allamby | 93 comments | Continued
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Watch the new Z LASIK Laser Eye Treatment now!

OK, it’s here at FOCUS Laser Vision in London. The video of our breakthrough next generation Z-LASIK laser eye surgery procedure! I can tell you the results have been amazing. Twelve treatments on our first day, and everyone can see better than 20/20, 60% of them seeing an incredible 20/12! (that’s two lines smaller than [...]

20Jan2008 | Dave Allamby | 1 comment | Continued
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What is it like to have Z-LASIK laser eye surgery?

You can hear Bella Roberts talking with me just 24 hours after her breakthrough Z-LASIK laser eye treatment. You can read more about Z-LASIK in my previous posts, and compare to Bella talking about her LASIK just before having the surgery!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JmZZ6wWiBH8
Why have Z-LASIK all-laser eye treatment? Why have FOCUS Laser Vision spent more than £300,000 [...]

19Jan2008 | Dave Allamby | 3 comments | Continued
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Z-LASIK laser eye surgery has arrived!

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 [...]

19Jan2008 | Dave Allamby | 0 comments | Continued