Laser Eye Surgery Blog

Complete Guide to Recovery & Post-Operative Care After Laser Eye Surgery

Updated for 2021 Your eyes need to receive and process visual data to create the world around us and guide us through it, so it wouldn’t make much sense for them to be on your knees or inside your gallbladder. But by placing them high up and front and centre, it means they’re exposed to the elements and wide open to eye pokes and a whole range of other potential disasters. Luckily, whoever designed them thought this through. As well as being…

04/02/2021

Guide to Contact Lens vs Glasses vs Laser Eye Surgery

But depending on who you ask, what they’ve experienced and read, what stage of life they are in, and who they work for, you may get a differing set of facts and opinions. By all means, the read the full article, but the key points in this article can be summarised as: Glasses provide accurate vision at a low cost that most people can wear and they are available everywhere. Glasses can also protect your eyes from injury. However, glasses are unsuitable…

04/02/2021

Is It Safe to Dye Your Hair Before or After Laser Eye Surgery ?

There are certain things you just shouldn’t do immediately before or after having Laser Eye Surgery. Down a fishbowl Martini. Go wild with paint at the Holi festival or take your chances at Pamplona’s running of the bulls. Give birth. The reason why such things are to be avoided can seem pretty obvious. For instance, of course you don’t want to go into labour whilst at the clinic and you’re about to have your second eye lasered. But when you look beyond…

23/06/2019

A patient’s guide to Laser Eye Surgery

Navigating your way through the Laser Eye Surgery landscape can be a difficult task on your own. The enticing discounts and time-limited offers, the new and ever elaborate sounding techniques, the unnecessarily complicated language and abbreviations; and all this even before setting foot inside a clinic. Even if you’re just looking to learn a little bit more about the surgery, discover if you’re suitable for treatment, or simply find an honest and reliable clinic, it can be really frustrating. Does it have…

01/11/2016