What is the cost of laser eye surgery?
Here you can get an idea of how much lasik and wavefront laser eye surgery will cost with us. We have three levels of pricing, which depend on what kind of glasses or contact lenses you wear. The simpler your glasses and vision problem, the lower the price. The lowest price is for treating short sight (myopia) and prices start from only £997 for blade-free wavefront Z-LASIK. Short sight is usually quite stable and one treatment should clear the vision for good, so quite easy to correct. Long sight (hyperopia) is a bit more difficult to treat and is a progressive problem, so prices start from £1097 for wavefront LASIK. If you need glasses for reading, usually over the age of 40, then we need to provide you with clear reading plus keeping great distance vision. This needs an expert custom optics treatment for which FOCUS Laser Vision is a true specialist clinic and so is more expensive than treating either short or long sight. All reading treatments are £1997 (Blade-free Z-LASIK, wavefro
Laser eye surgery has become extremely popular in the last decade or so. Lasik actually stands for Laser In-Situ Keratomileusis. This type of surgery basically uses a laser to change the curvature of the cornea. Your cornea is the outer window of your eye, and this is where nearsightedness, farsightedness and astigmatism occur. The advent of new technologies has made vision correction surgery very safe and effective. Most people recover very quickly and have little or no side effects. The surgery is done on an outpatient basis, and most people can resume their normal activities the day after surgery. People who are thinking about having Lasik should have a consultation with a licensed ophthalmologist before undergoing the surgery, because not everyone will benefit from vision correction surgery. A person must be 18 years of age, have had a stable prescription for one year, have no health issues with either eye, have no evidence of glaucoma or cataracts and most of all, wish to decrease
