All Posts Tagged With: "LASIK"
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 | 3 comments | Continued
Nearly 80% of people want sub £1,000 price LASIK laser eye surgery
If you want, click here to see a price comparison of various prescriptions at several laser eye surgery clinics. Please ensure that you check the final price you will be charged at any clinic you are evaluating prior to going ahead.
28Apr2008 | Dave Allamby | 0 comments | Continued
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
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
Corneal inlay showing early positive results in European study
Early data from a European clinical trial covering several centres suggest that the AcuFocus ACI 7000 corneal inlay could become an innovative, minimally invasive option for correcting patients who have lost reading vision through ageing changes.
However, only 70 patients have been treated with the implant as part of the study, and only 23 have reached [...]
Essential UK Guide to Laser Eye Surgery Part 2 – Reading Your Prescription
Here is Part 2 of the Essential UK Guide to Laser Eye Surgery slideshows. It covers how to read your prescription and know what all the numbers mean.
This is really useful to know for when you call up a clinic to find out if you are suitable for LASIK or PRK laser eye surgery, they [...]
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' [...]
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. [...]
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 [...]
Laser Eye Surgery Prices Plummet!
Prices for laser eye surgery treatment in the UK have fallen by up to 80% for correction of short sight. However, tremendous variation between clinics means a difference in price of up to £4,000 ($8,000) for the same glasses prescription.
You can see the press release article on the fall in LASIK laser eye surgery prices [...]
LASIK Price Poll
Most people are voting that LASIK laser eye surgery prices should be under £1,000 per eye. If you haven’t yet voted, look over to the right hand side bar and have YOUR say!
27Feb2008 | Dave Allamby | 0 comments | Continued
New video on why you need glasses
Watch this video to learn more about why you need glasses. It explains about short sight, long sight, astigmatism and presbyopia.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c49fqi966os
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 [...]
Z LASIK performs very well with corneal scars
We have been using the Ziemer LDV for 3 weeks now with great results. Vision results and flap creation have been excellent and without any complications.
For eyes with pre-existing corneal scars there has always been a question mark over the ability of femtosecond lasers to create LASIK flaps as the scar tissue may prevent the [...]
How much would YOU pay for laser eye surgery?
Join our poll on the right side of this page!
1Feb2008 | Dave Allamby | 0 comments | Continued
LASIK prices – what it REALLY costs.
See our featured article on LASIK prices and what the real costs are at various clinics.
You can see the £395 headline price from Optical Express and Optimax is not what you will pay at all when you want modern wavefront LASIK. Those prices are for non-wavefront treatments and you have to pay extra if you [...]
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 [...]
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
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 [...]
PRK Video – the Basics
Video showing a very brief overview of the PRK surface laser procedure, as well as covering short sight, long sight and astigmatism. LASIK remains the most popular laser eye surgery procedure worldwide. In Italy, though, surface laser (PRK, LASEK) is very popular.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dZZguJNitnU
LASIK video – the Basics Part 1
Video showing a very brief overview of the LASIK procedure, as well as covering short sight, long sight and astigmatism. Simple and to the point.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a7VRghAtwXU
LASIK & laser eye surgery
Follow this blog for regular updates on what is happening in the LASIK world.You can sign up for the feed for blog postings, podcasts and webcasts on what is going on in the world of laser eye surgery (LASIK, LASEK and PRK). Find out if LASIK or another procedure is right for you.
Is it safe?
What [...]
Ultralase sold for £174 million to 3i
British private equity firm 3i has agreed to buy Ultralase from Spain’s cosmetic surgery group Dermoestetica. The Spanish group said the price was 174.5 millon pounds (238 million euros, 348 million dollars). There is an exclusivity period on this deal until January 30 2008. 3i made an approach to Dermoestetica just recently in November 2007.Dermoestetica [...]
9Jan2008 | Dave Allamby | 2 comments | Continued
hi Ben
The research data on long term stability indicates 98% will remain with very good vision. If your distance vision ...
Hi Dave,
I am currently looking into laser surgery, and one question I have is regarding how long it lasts, and ...
I am considering LASIK. I live in USA so was going to go for ilasik until I heard of zlasik ...
Dear Sir,
This is a request for information.
I am short sighted btween -5 and -6 with astigmatism in both eyes. I ...
Great website, thank you! Thank you, Dave! Probably the best information resource I have seen so far!
Why do you need ...
Hi Dave,
I am at the early stages of researching the possibility of having laser eye surgery so forgive me if ...