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.

The chances of seeing 20/20 are extremely high. Again each clinic will be able to provide you with specific results based on your specific refractive error. This is the key point in terms of understanding this question.

Most patients after the treatment do not require an enhancement. In general speaking terms, the higher your original prescription the more likelihood, there may be some drift in refraction as part of the healing response. Patients are not able to control the healing response. Therefore it is not down to the individual to cause the eyes to drift but more from the actual eye itself.

The laser eye surgery industry is a bit of minefield at some levels. There are a lot of different levels towards patient care and patients will be subjected to a multitude of differences when it comes to different pricing structures in comparison to what we have here at the London Vision Clinic. Essentially what we have tried to do at the London Vision Clinic is to offer patients a full package as a one price fits all. We are not here to up-sell. We are not here to offer patients a little bit extra in terms of their results.

A big question, can I go blind after laser eye surgery? The answer to that, (in theory) is yes. There have been reported cases around the world where people have lost extensive vision after laser eye surgery. These cases are extremely rare. It would take a series of events to happen, very unfortunate events, to leave the person in a predicament where they lost all their vision.

Recently Dr Dan returned to the academic front line to lecture 
at the prestigious Columbia University in New York where he has received a 
professorship – he had previously also held this title at Cornell University. Here he also explains why – man per paper – the London Vision Clinic is now the most efficient researcher in the world
 of ophthalmology.

It is very, very rare for the corneal flap to loosen after the laser eye surgery. In cases where loosening has occurred, it generally has happened overnight after the actual treatment. Certainly periods of longer than that, a week after the surgery, a month, three months after the surgery, these cases are extremely rare and generally the patient has undergone some form of heavy trauma to the eye, which has resulted in not only the flap moving but more than likely to cause the flap to move and would have resulted in a lot more damage to other structures in the eye at the same time

Most patients are back to their normal routine within a day or two. We tend to ask patients to take one day off – the day after their surgery, to reside in a relaxed environment and take time to adjust to their new vision and get used to placing the lubricant drops in their eyes.

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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.