5 stars whose lives changed after Laser Eye Surgery

5 stars whose lives changed after Laser Eye Surgery With their perfectly sculpted bods, bags of charm, impeccable style sense, and charismatic voices, celebrities can often seem like some kind of superhumans who’ve arrived here from space. But although they may seem like aliens (some more than others), they are more or less ordinary people. There is something, however, that makes many of them different from the average person on the street. To get to where they are, many celebs,…

5 Things you can now do after Laser Eye Surgery

5 Things you can now do after Laser Eye Surgery When you have good eyesight, it’s easy to take many of the everyday pleasures in life for granted: having a trouble-free shower, reading menus and text messages, rolling around with the kids, waking up and knowing where you are. You’d think having first to perform a fiddly ritual of putting your contacts in or finding your glasses would make you appreciate these things more. But they don’t. In fact, they make…

Why are independent reviews so useful?

Why are independent reviews so useful? It’s Friday night, and instead of hitting the usual dinner spot you and your partner decide to try somewhere new. But rather than strolling up and down the streets of Marylebone, casually browsing menus, peering through windows, and trying desperately not to start an argument, you reach for your phone. You call one of your friends, the who shares similar tastes and reckons themselves a bit of a food critic (we all have one)….

What’s the best outcome with laser surgery?

What’s the best outcome with laser surgery? When you think back to surgery in the 18th century, before the modern miracle of anaesthesia was around, things were much different. Thankfully, times have changed, and medicine has come a long, long way in the past century. It’s now possible to pop in for a swift surgical treatment one afternoon and be back at work the next day. Since we learned how to manage pain and the spread of infection, severe complications have been significantly…

How should I choose a provider for my vision correction

How should I choose a provider for my vision correction I spend way too much of life making decisions. Choosing between brands of tinned tomatoes; picking the right hotel to stay in; deciding whether to go through town or take the motorway to try to skip the traffic. So you can imagine when it comes to a big decision like buying a house or choosing a Laser Eye Surgery provider, things gets a little more complicated. With the seemingly endless…

Can I talk to someone who has been treated?

Can I talk to someone who has been treated? Not too long ago, advertisements and salespeople were the main influences in our decisions to buy certain products or use certain services. If you were lucky, you may of had a friend or family member who could offer you a recommendation, but more often than not you were buying in blind faith. Today, many people won’t make a purchase until they’ve found out exactly what others have to say about it….

LASIK Safety & Patient Satisfaction

LASIK Safety & Patient Satisfaction LASIK is known as one of the most common—and safest—methods of refractive surgery to date. And now we have a comprehensive FDA study to confirm it. The study set in stone what many of the worlds leading surgeons, as well as the vast majority of the 20 millions recipients of the surgery, have long believed to be true; that LASIK is safe, effective, and extremely cost-efficient. The study involved surveying LASIK patients about their visual…

What A Drag It Is Choosing New Glasses…

As a delighted London Vision Clinic patient who – in a weak, sibling-bonding moment – offered to help her sister choose new frames, I was recently struck by what a drag it is selecting new glasses. The selection process can be akin to negotiating a very expensive minefield littered with costly mistakes and fashion blunders at every turn. …

Using Research To Choose Your Laser Eye Surgery Provider

Using Research To Choose Your Laser Eye Surgery Provider “The post-op care is second to none and whoever decides they want treatment here, you will not be disappointed. I wish I had gone and had it done sooner!” -Angela It is not uncommon for many of our patients to be led, driven, or guided to us through months (or even years!) of extensive research. This is sometimes in the form of talking to friends. Other times it is over the…

Life In ‘2020’ When Glasses No Longer Exist…

Life In ‘2020’ When Glasses No Longer Exist… It’s strange to think that just a few years ago, people were wearing glasses. Though it seems alien to us now, it was perfectly normal to carry a ‘pair of specs’ around with you to use for reading. How prehistoric! People were actually too nervous to correct their vision, and instead opted for the inconvenience, expense and hassle that reading glasses entailed. How times have changed… Imagine the annoyance of having to…