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….

How Does Laser Eye Surgery Affect Contrast Sensitivity?

How Does Laser Eye Surgery Affect Contrast Sensitivity? Laser Eye Surgery has a huge number of implications on your life – the major one being a significant improvement in your visual acuity. For the vast majority of patients, the primary driver behind having Laser Eye Surgery is to finally get rid of their glasses or contact lenses. Thankfully, the procedure is often successful in achieving this – and more! But what about the other effects of this life-changing procedure? For…

How Variable are the Risks of Laser Eye Surgery?

“Laser”, “eye” and “surgery” are three words that may, understandably, arouse anxiety. Unlike in the USA, where the procedure is often referred to simply as “LASIK”, one of the first obstacles for someone considering the treatment in this country may well be just getting over their pre-conceptions (which, we have found, are most often mis-conceptions) about what risks laser eye surgery involves….

Why Should You Get Laser Eye Surgery Over 40?

Why Should You Get Laser Eye Surgery Over 40? There are a lot of misconceptions when it comes to Laser Eye Surgery. From prospective patients being terrified of pain during the procedure, to the supposed limits of the treatment. For example, many people believe that once you reach middle age and inevitably begin to need reading glasses, your window for getting the most out of Laser Eye Surgery has passed. You might have heard that Laser Eye Surgery cannot counteract…

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:…