All Posts Tagged With: "surgery"

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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?

18Nov2008 | Dave Allamby | 0 comments | Continued
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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

17Oct2008 | 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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Laser Eye Surgery Safety

Laser Eye Surgery Safety: What you must know!

10Oct2008 | Dave Allamby | 0 comments | Continued
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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.

31Aug2008 | Dave Allamby | 0 comments | Continued
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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.

8Aug2008 | Dave Allamby | 0 comments | Continued
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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 [...]

8Jul2008 | Dave Allamby | 0 comments | Continued
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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.

27Jun2008 | Dave Allamby | 0 comments | Continued
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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%.

20Jun2008 | Dave Allamby | 0 comments | Continued
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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

18Jun2008 | Dave Allamby | 0 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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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.

17May2008 | Dave Allamby | 0 comments | Continued