What is Amblyopia (Lazy Eye) – and can Laser Eye Surgery help? Amblyopia – more commonly known as ‘lazy eye’ – is a disorder in which vision in one eye is not fully developed. It can co-occur with refractive errors such as short-sightedness, long-sightedness, and astigmatism. If you have amblyopia and have been considering refractive treatment to correct your prescription, you may wonder: Can Laser Eye Surgery help? Amblyopia is estimated to affect around between 1% and 5% of the…
Category: Laser eye surgery
Can My Vision Return To Its Original Level After Laser Eye Surgery? [VIDEO]
Vision is likely to return to what patients could see through their best pair of glasses after laser eye surgery. Many people ask if their vision can return to what it was before wearing glasses. This is extremely rare as it would mean that vision would have to regress all the way back to its starting point. …
Laser Eye Surgery Costs: Factors That Create Confusion
We’ve noticed that one of the most popular pages on our website is about laser eye surgery costs. So, we’ve decided to conduct a comparison of fees that range across the laser eye service providers to provide some context about this subject. Understand some of the specific factors that create confusion in laser eye surgery pricing across clinics….
Laser Eye Surgery: The Results Beyond the Numbers
In recent years, the choice of binning the specs seems a far more attractive notion, with the increase of successful statistical results reported and development of the laser technology, it is not surprising that thousands of people in the UK choose laser eye surgery year after year. Although these numbers are convincing, thousands of people choose to have laser eye surgery for benefits that have little to do with laser eye surgery statistics….
Laser Eye Surgery: How the Process Works at London Vision Clinic
In this video laser eye surgeon Mr Glenn Carp, explains the laser eye surgery process at the London Vision Clinic….
Laser Eye Surgery Treatments: What is PRK? [VIDEO]
PRK or photo-refractive keratectomy was the first vision correction procedure to use excimer lasers and grew out of the pioneering scalpel-based refractive surgery. The procedure is most suited to patients with unusually thin or flat corneas….
Glenn Carp Explains the Fundamental Principles in Laser Eye Surgery [video]
Surgeon Glenn Carp explains the two main laser eye surgery areas, PRK (LASEK) and LASIK. Both treatments are available at the London Vision Clinic, offering the same results. However, some patients may need to consider having PRK / LASEK… Mr Carp explains why……
Eye Health Q&A with Expert Laser Eye Surgeon Prof. Dan Reinstein
Eye Health Q&A with Expert Laser Eye Surgeon Prof. Dan Reinstein In our busy modern lives, it can be surprisingly easy to forget about one of the most important assets we have – our eyes. While many of us take our vision for granted every day, expert Laser Eye Surgeon Professor Dan Reinstein is explaining why it is so important to be on our toes when it comes to our eye health. In your opinion, do people generally take good…
Is Laser Eye Surgery Worth the Cost?
Everyone has different factors driving the decision on Lasik Eye Surgery. For some the cost and slight risk is not worth the investment. For others however, the surgery pays off a million times in the improvement of quality of life, boost to self esteem, convenience, cost and effort of maintaining glasses or contact lenses wear. Read more to help weight up the pros and cons in this highly personal decision….
Results After Laser Eye Surgery: Common Questions
In this post, we share some of the most common questions we hear from patients in regards to results after laser eye surgery….
