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When is a Cornea Too Thin for LASIK?
Many surgeons don’t cut LASIK flaps in corneas less than 500 microns. Being able to create very accurate LASIK flaps with the new femtosecond lasers (e.g. Ziemer, Intralase, Zeiss) leaves more tissue behind and so allowing larger treatments.
Which Laser Eye Clinic Should I Choose?
The choices of laser eye surgery clinics can seem bewildering! You want to have laser eye treatment e.g LASIK and now you need to choose the clinic for your surgery. But which one?
What is going to happen to laser eye surgery prices?
Overall all laser eye surgery prices are increasing or set to increase. The cost of new technology to give you better and safer surgery is very high and needs to be constantly updated
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.
Celebrity Paul Ross and Dr Dave Allamby on ‘This Morning’ TV Show
Fern Britten and Philip Schofield interview Paul Ross and Dr. Dave Allamby about laser eye surgery.
SAFETY NOTE: Does the LASIK flap ever heal?
Some new research from Professor John Marshall has helped shed light on this key topic and is something that everyone who is thinking about LASIK laser eye surgery needs to know.
New lens to restore reading vision for people age 45+
A new lens to help reading vision has received approval from the American Food & Drug Administration (FDA), according to manufacturers Bausch & Lomb, based at Rochester in New York state.
These lenses are inserted inside the eye during a procedure very similar to that used for cataract surgery. The natural lens is removed and replaced [...]
Reading vision helped by laser eye surgery
Most people start to need reading glasses after the age of 45 and previously were not eligible for laser eye treatment. All that has changed with advances in technology. FOCUS Laser Vision has been very active in this increasingly popular area of laser eye correction.
WaveLight laser sales increase worldwide
WaveLight AG, based in Erlangen, Germany increased its sales for the first nine months of 2007/8 accounting year by 31% to €65 million. In the worldwide sales-strong US market the company exceeded the turnover of the comparable period in the previous year by 66%.
LASIK for USAF Pilots and Astronauts
One week after surgery more than 76 percent of femtosecond laser patients achieved an uncorrected visual acuity of at least 20/16 (better than 20/20) compared to only 58 percent of microkeratome patients # In an evaluation of 785 pilots, 89% of Navy aviators evaluated their ability to land on an aircraft carrier as moderately to significantly better after laser eye surgery. None said it was worse after treatment
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.
FDA approves faster iLASIK laser
Advanced Medical Optics Inc. in Santa Ana, announced on Wednesday that the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved a new laser for use in laser eye correction. The iFS femtosecond laser is set to be at the centre of AMO’s iLasik products for laser vision surgery.
hi Stevie
People should not be guided by £395 headline prices. The reality is that quality laser eye surgery cost £3-4,000+, ...
Dear Dave,
Like most, I've been researching the possibility of surgery for some time, and have slowly noticed the high street ...
hi my husband went to have his eyes done today and the exact same thing happened!
i complained bitterly and pointed ...
Hi Dave,
My girlfriend has just been for a consultation today with a view to undergoing laser eye surgery. Unfortunately owing ...
Hi Terry, I have had a Lasik eye surgery to correct my vision about a year ago. I have been ...
Hi Dave,
I had Lasik treatment on both eyes three months ago. I now need a recorrection. My surgeon told me ...
I also have TLS and am just now (2 years after surgery) getting treated for it. It's common for it ...
I am in the Canadian army and can't decide on which procedure to go with because I am going to ...
Hi Dave
I've been reading all the posts and they sound very helpful. I've been very tempted to get lazer eye ...
I am 17 and would love to be a pilot in the RAF but am myopic. Do you know if ...
Thank you very much for your answer, it really calmed me down a bit.
Best regards,
Eleonora 
Hi Marie
The Clinical Suitability Guidelines followed when patients are assessed for Laser Eye Surgery at Optical Express are set and ...
Dear Dave
Thanks for the reply and the information you have put my mind at ease and my glasses dont have ...
Hi Dave, Thank you for the information; it has certainly given me food for thought and I'm so glad I ...
Dear Dave
That's really helpful - thank you. I plan to book an appointment at your clinic so that I ...