What if I’m Currently Wearing Contact Lenses? Over the last few decades, contact lenses have become one of the most popular visual aids thanks to their ability to adapt to a huge variety of prescriptions and their invisible appearance. For many people, contact lenses are preferred to the more traditional glasses, and for good reason. Contact lenses fit to your actual eye which makes for more effective vision correction. They also make for clearer vision as they are not affected…
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Top Tips to Prevent Damage to Your Eyes in the Winter
Top Tips to Prevent Damage to Your Eyes in the Winter At its best, Winter can be one of the most beautiful and exciting times of the year with its glistening frosts, snowy landscapes and festive celebrations. But the colder months also come with their pitfalls. Shorter and darker days can affect our mood and motivation and freezing temperatures can cause our skin to become dry, red, and irritated – and that’s before mentioning the abundance of colds and sniffles…
Your Vision: Understanding Your Prescription
Your Vision: Understanding Your Prescription If you are new to wearing glasses, or perhaps your child has recently been told they need glasses, understanding prescriptions can be a challenge, to say the least. Seeing all those numbers and symbols for the first time can be overwhelming, so understanding what they actually mean can be extremely helpful. So, let’s break down what your prescription is, what it means, and how it is measured. Measuring your Prescription Accurately measuring your prescription is…
What are the Most Common Refractive Errors?
What are the Most Common Refractive Errors? For many people, glasses and contact lenses have become a static feature in their lives. Remembering – or forgetting – glasses on the way out of the door in the morning is like second nature. Remembering to remove contact lenses before bed is a constant worry. But the reason these visual aids are required in the first place varies from person to person. Most refractive errors are caused when light is not effectively…
What are Alternative Treatments to Laser Eye Surgery?
What are Alternative Treatments to Laser Eye Surgery? Continued development and innovation mean that Laser Eye Surgery can now treat a huge number of refractory errors with minimally invasive techniques. In fact, at London Vision Clinic, we are able to treat around 98% of people who contact us. However, Laser Eye Surgery may not be the right option for everyone. A small number of patients may be unsuitable for Laser Eye Surgery for a number of reasons. For example, high…
Got A High Glasses Prescription? No Problem [VIDEO]
Got A High Glasses Prescription? No Problem! If you have a really high glasses prescription, you may be under the impression that Laser Eye Surgery is not an option you for – but you could be wrong. This common belief stems from the early years of LASIK treatment. For many years, Laser Eye Surgery wasn’t suitable for treating high glasses prescriptions, leaving many patients to settle for synthetic lens implants. While it is true that Laser Eye Surgery clinics used…
Jess Goddard Rows Across the Atlantic Just Six Weeks After Laser Eye Surgery [VIDEO]
Jess Goddard Rows Across the Atlantic Just Six Weeks After Laser Eye Surgery Each patient we see at London Vision Clinic has their own reasons for seeking vision correction. For all of our patients, though, Laser Eye Surgery is chosen to simply make their life easier. This can be as simple as never again having to worry about misplacing your glasses, cleaning contact lenses, or squinting at books and menus. For some, however, there are more specific reasons for choosing…
10 Things To Do That Are Miles Better Without Wearing Glasses
10 Things that are Miles Better without Wearing Glasses There are some things in life that we can’t accurately imagine until we take the plunge and just go for it. Things like having a baby, or starting a new career. Oh, or getting rid of your glasses – once and for all. From admiring the latest drawing from your little one to appreciating the beauty of a sunrise – or even reading this article – sufficient vision is a prerequisite…
10 things every glasses wearer will know
10 Things that Every Glasses Wearer Will Have Experienced Glasses are cool, right? I mean, they help us to see and everything, but they certainly have their drawbacks – like the pimples around the rims, or their constant desire to go missing. Oh, and don’t even get me started on… Okay, glasses wearers definitely have A LOT to deal with that frameless folks will never understand. Do your pet hates make our list of the most annoying things about wearing…
[VIDEO] Understanding the Evolution of Laser Eye Surgery: How Does it Work?
Understanding the Evolution of Laser Eye Surgery: How Does it Work? In the modern world that we all find ourselves in – wandering around with masterpieces of modern technology tucked in our pockets; with the potential to have life-changing surgery at our fingertips – it can be easy to distance ourselves from our history. I mean, can you imagine a time when you couldn’t ask ‘Google’ to answer a fleeting and inconsequential query at least five times a day? A…
