Glasses or Contact Lenses: What’s My Best Option? We humans have been making efforts to combat refractive errors for hundreds – and perhaps thousands – of years. From ancient magnifying stones to early spectacles and later, contact lenses. And to this day, glasses and contact lenses are still used by hundreds of millions of people around the world. But which solution is the best – and is there a better option? Effective Solutions to Common Refractive Errors Both glasses and…
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Makeup and Laser Eye Surgery: Everything You Need to Know
We normally ask for patients to abstain from wearing make up for a period of one week. It is the big three that are important; the eyeliner, the eye shadow and of course the mascara. Normal face make-up, for example lipstick, is fine to use a day or two after the treatment. It is only really the make that is applied in and around the eyes that needs to be avoided for the first week….
Short-sighted? What You Can Expect From Laser Eye Surgery
Short-sighted? What You Can Expect From Laser Eye Surgery If you have myopia (short-sightedness), you’re in good company. Recent estimates indicate that around a third of the global population might share this trait with you. But this is unlikely to comfort you if you’re one of the millions of people in the UK who are daily burdened by glasses and contact lenses. If this sounds like you, then you have likely wondered about Laser Eye Surgery before. Is it a…
Leave the Stress Behind – Along with Your Specs!
If you are a spectacle wearer, you will undoubtedly be aware of the stress that glasses can cause. Specs may seem like the perfect solution if you find contact lenses too pricey, uncomfortable, unsuitable, or simply too fussy and time-consuming but, for many people, they can in fact be just as irksome….
Vision Myths: Are Glasses Bad for Your Eyes?
Are Glasses Bad for Your Eyes? The concept of glasses has been around for hundreds of years. Having gone through many iterations in that time – such as handheld lenses and monocles – it is only in the last hundred years or so that glasses as we know them today have become the norm. Yet, the speed with which glasses have taken on endless styles, colours, and prescriptions is extremely impressive. Since new methods and materials made it possible to…
What Does Freedom From Glasses Really Mean?
What Does Freedom From Glasses Really Mean? For those who have worn glasses for most of their lives, it can be difficult to imagine just what freedom from the frames is really like. You’ve become used to scrambling around the bedside table every morning looking for your specs. Or showering in blurriness as you prepare to start your day. Maybe living a glasses-free life isn’t all it’s cracked up to be. Then again, it would be nice to prepare a…
Say Goodbye to “Jam Jar” Specs with Laser Eye Surgery
Laser Eye Surgery Let Me Throw Away My Jam-Jar Specs Every year, over 100,000 people in the UK alone discover the benefits of Laser Eye Surgery. Moreover, thanks to ongoing developments in the field, more people than ever have been suitable candidates for this life-changing procedure – even patients with high-prescription, “jam-jar” glasses. A Serious Interference in Everyday Life For individuals who require high-prescription glasses to see clearly, a whole lot of everyday activities can seem impossible. Take sports, for…
Lost Glasses and Steamed Up Lenses: Time to Get Rid!
It happens to the best of us. You need your reading glasses but when you go to grab them from your bag, or you desk, or your head, they’re no longer there! You’ve left them somewhere… Again! (Queue frustration and mild self-loathing.)
Here’s our list of the top-ten most common places to misplace your specs:…
Essential Advice to Maintain Your Eye Health
Essential Advice on Eye Health
Last year, National Eye Health Week reminded us all of the importance of regular eye tests. It’s recommended we have our eyes examined at least every two years, not only to ensure they’re healthy, but also to check for changes to our current prescriptions….
London Vision Clinic’s Top Tips to Avoid Eye Strain
In this crazy, modern, techy world that we live in, we don’t take it easy on our eyes. Today many jobs require that we spend hours and hours in front of computer screens. Many people even elect to read on computer screens rather than actual books. With that being said, books are sometimes not much of an optical improvement. Eye strain can cause dryness, migraines and, later down the road, permanent vision problems….
