Laser Eye Surgery Blog

The 10 Most Frequent Places to Lose Your Reading Glasses

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: Obviously, you remove your glasses before diving in and typically, they are the last item you take off, so are carefully placed at the top of your locker.…

23/12/2013

The Pros And Cons Of Glasses And Contact Lenses

It’s often difficult to decide whether glasses or contact lenses are right for you. Where glasses may be better in some areas, contact lenses are an improvement in others. And of course there is the third option, Laser Eye Surgery — an elective procedure that can eliminate the need to use both glasses or contact lenses. But for most people, their entrance into the world of vision correction begins with rectangular frames or thin see through lenses. So to get a better…

22/08/2013

Ways 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. When I was in college, I realised that my…

17/01/2013

What Does The Laser Eye Surgery Price Include? [video]

The price of the Laser Eye Surgery is for both of your eyes and for all of your pre octave appointments, all of your aftercare for up to a year’s length minimum and for all of the eye drops you will be needing during that time. We want to be sure that the price of the Laser Eye Surgery will leave you feeling worth your money and time to invest into your eyes. “The London Vision Clinic provided pre & post op…

24/07/2012

Can I Have Laser Eye Surgery If I Am Taking Prescription Drugs? [video]

Most prescription drugs will have no effect on the eye and in fact no effect directly on the actual treatment or the results of the treatment. It is of course important for us here at the London Vision Clinic to discuss the potential side-effects that drugs may have on the eyes or on the outcome of the patient’s surgery. Factors like increasing dry eye or causing extra corneal oedema, swelling of the cornea etc, may be side effects under certain medication. Yes,…

09/05/2012

What Is Wavefront, And Is It Better Than Conventional Laser Eye Surgery? [video]

The difference between a standard procedure and a wavefront guided treatment is essentially that in a standard treatment one corrects for a glasses prescription. In a glasses prescription, we treat approximately 90% to 95% of the refractive error that the patient has. In addition to the glasses refraction, there is a small percentage of the vision that cannot be corrected with glasses because it is made up of tiny little irregularities within the visual system. These small irregularities can be measured with…

12/04/2012

How Does Treatment For Reading Vision Differ From Conventional Laser Eye Surgery? [video]

Here at the London Vision Clinic we are very fortunate to be able to offer patients who have become presbyopic, which means, patients whose reading has drifted out of focus Laser Eye Surgery. This is age related and worsens as you get older. In order to fix this, we use a process called PRESBYOND® Laser Blended Vision where we focus the patient’s dominant eye for distance, and focus the non-dominant eye for near. We do it in such a way that the…

23/03/2012

How exactly does laser vision correction work? [VIDEO]

It sounds like something that pops up on a computer screen when it’s malfunctioning. But as they are built into our hard drives, or bodies, from the beginning, a refractive error isn’t something we can necessarily avoid. Pretty much everyone has the makings of a refractive error. This means that to some degree or another, there is a problem with your eye’s ability to accurately focus light on the retina. However, although such discrepancies are more common than not, they don’t affect…

19/03/2012

Can My Vision Return To Its Original Level After Laser Eye Surgery? [video]

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 cornea may heal a little off its targets but it is very unlikely that it will heal right the way back to its original…

08/03/2012