Keloid scarring is found to have no influence on laser eye surgery results. The over production of collagen tissue found in scars on the skin keloid formation has not been shown to be affected in the healing process within the cornea.
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Mr Glenn Carp explains the alternatives available in improving reading vision. While laser blended vision is designed to boost one’s reading and maintain one’s distance, there are lot of other techniques that can be used….
Laser eye surgery is performed using topical anaesthetic. There is no need for a general anaesthetic as the topical drops themselves are sufficient to basically completely anaesthetize the cornea and that is the area where all the treatment is being done. On top of that the patient actually needs to be awake, they need to be alert so that they can respond to the surgeon’s commands and in a sense look in the right direction toward certain target points which will facilitate their treatment and make it more reliable….
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…
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. …
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….
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….
In this video laser eye surgeon Mr Glenn Carp, explains the laser eye surgery process at the London Vision Clinic….
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….
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……
