All Posts Tagged With: "Technology"

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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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Moria unveils a new device for creating ultra thin flaps in LASIK

Moria will unveil their new One Use-Plus SBK microkeratome at the upcoming 2008 meeting of the American Society of Cataract and Refractive Surgery in Chicago. Moria will present the clinical outcomes of their clinical trials. In eyes receiving this Moria SBK [...]

2Apr2008 | 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: ) LASIK and ) 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 | 6 comments | Continued
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What’s important when choosing a laser eye surgery clinic?

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 [...]

8Mar2008 | Dave Allamby | 0 comments | Continued
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What are ‘femtosecond’ eye lasers?

I get asked about the so-called ‘femtosecond‘ lasers now being used in LASIK laser eye surgery, and what these devices do. OK, here are the answers.
First of all, LASIK eye surgery is a laser procedure with two parts. First we have to make a thin flap from the top part of the cornea, basically a [...]

9Feb2008 | Dave Allamby | 4 comments | 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 | 5 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 | 31 comments | Continued
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Z-LASIK is coming to the UK

The UK’s first Ziemer LDV [tag]femtosecond[/tag] laser has just arrived in the country and the first procedure will be carried out pretty soon. So watch this blog space!
If you are not familiar, femtosecond lasers are used for performing the first stage of [tag]LASIK[/tag] [tag]laser eye surgery[/tag]. (LASIK simply comes in two parts – first create [...]

16Jan2008 | Dave Allamby | 0 comments | Continued