What's the Best Laser Eye Surgery Procedure?

Each eye and each individual is different. For this reason, procedures performed at Centre for Sight are selected and customised specifically for each patient, taking into consideration specific characteristics including age, ocular condition, amount of correction required, corneal thickness, mechanical strength of the cornea and the magnitude of high order aberrations. LASIK eye surgery is the most popular laser eye surgery procedure worldwide with over 50 million people treated so far. Many patients consider this to be the best laser eye surgery option, because of benefits which include rapid visual recovery and healing (with a noticeable difference immediately) along with long term stability.

At Centre for Sight all Lasik patients are treated with a femtosecond laser (Intralase) introduced by us to the UK in 2004. This we believe is the gold standard in ensuring absolutely safe, reproducible and reliable procedures. Some organisations and Lasik surgeon still perform conventional Lasik using blades to perform this type of surgery. To differentiate ourselves from blade techniques we use the term IntraLASIK. We shall discuss the benefits of the IntraLASIK later.