Laser eye surgery treatments

Zana, a patient, discusses the differences that laser eye treatment have made to her day to day life

Laser eye surgery is the most popular elective procedure in the world. There are two forms of laser eye surgery: LASIK (the most common) and PRK/LASEK. Both use extremely precise lasers to reshape your cornea. This is the key to correcting your vision, because the shape of the cornea determines the way light enters your eye.

Laser eye treatment removes small, very precise amounts of corneal tissue to subtly adjust the way light enters the eye, painlessly transforming the quality your vision in minutes. If your cornea is more curved than it should be, it bends (refracts) the light so that it focuses just in front of the cornea. This is known as short-sightedness, or myopia. If the cornea is flatter than it should be, the light converges just behind the cornea, causing long-sightedness, or hyperopia.

Treating astigmatism

Of course, there are many other conditions that affect our vision, such as astigmatism or simply the effects of ageing (presbyopia). You may well have heard that these and other conditions are beyond the power of laser eye treatment. However, while many clinics refuse patients with such conditions, the London Vision Clinic has been treating them successfully for many years.

The treatment is very quick and pain free and I would urge anyone contemplating eye surgery to contact the London Vision Clinic and arrange for a consultation. For most of my life I have had to put up with high prescription glasses. Now I can participate in activities that I never would have dreamed of previously before surgery.

Michael Kershaw

Treating the effects of ageing

We have developed a revolutionary treatment calledLaser Blended Vision that addresses vision problems caused by the natural ageing process. This unique laser eye treatment can significantly reduce, or even eliminate, the need for reading glasses for many years. Read more about Laser Blended Vision.

Treating very high prescriptions

Many clinics resort to surgically implanted synthetic lenses to treat very high prescriptions. The London Vision Clinic has pioneered safe methods for using laser eye surgery in such cases. This is largely thanks to our uniquely comprehensive and accurate assessment tools, which mean we can treat very high prescriptions in complete confidence. Read more about High Profile treatments.

LASIK

LASIK is the most common form of laser eye surgery and is suitable for over 90% of patients. It offers the least discomfort, and the fastest recovery time of any laser eye surgery. Most patients can be back at work within 24 hours.

Laser Blended Vision

You may have heard that LASEK/LASIK laser surgery is powerless against the effects of ageing on the eye. And anywhere other than the London Vision Clinic, that would be true. To save you from reading glasses or bifocals, most surgeons have to rely on synthetic lenses, inserted surgically into the eye. But Professor Reinstein and his team have pioneered a unique laser treatment, called Laser Blended Vision to counter the effects of ageing in the eye.

High Profile Treatments

If you have a high prescription, you may have been told that laser surgery cannot help you. Although that's possible, it's very unlikely. The truth is, most clinics either lack the expertise to tackle higher prescriptions, or do not wish to invest the time required for such patients. The London Vision Clinic is different. We have been offering high profile laser eye surgery for high prescription patients for many years.

LASEK / PRK

What is commonly known as LASEK eye surgery actually refers to a number of very similar forms of laser eye surgery: PRK, LASEK, ASA, Epi-LASIK and Epi-LASEK. These procedures are all minor variations on the same surgical theme. They are what is known as surface procedures - varieties of the original form of laser eye surgery, known as excimer laser photorefractive keratectomy (PRK).

Intra-Ocular Lens

In a very few cases, laser eye surgery will not produce the best results. And we are only interested in the best results. So for some patients with extremely high prescriptions, we turn to intra-ocular lenses.

Keratoconus, Cross-Linking, KXL, Intra-Corneal Rings

Keratoconus is a severe form of astigmatism, in which the cornea is slightly weaker than normal. This means the shape of the cornea progressively distorts, creating a cone shape at the front of the eye.

Laser eye surgery treatments

Treating astigmatism

Treating the effects of ageing

Treating very high prescriptions

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