What happens during LASIK surgery?

LASIK eye surgery ('laser-assisted in-situ keratomileusis') is the most widely performed laser eye surgery in London to correct short-sight, long-sight, astigmatism and presbyopia (the need for reading glasses). At Focus, your surgeon will perform more than 150 steps on each eye with our advanced LASIK procedure (A-LASIK), developed by chief surgeon David Allamby. A-LASIK has resulted in a 100% success rate for all common myopia prescriptions and a boosted safety profile. For LASIK in general, ninety percent of the treatment is done manually by the surgeon, with the lasers active for only 10% of the duration. Hence, getting an expert surgeon is very important.

What happens after LASIK surgery?

The LASIK procedure generally takes no longer than 10 minutes for both eyes and recovery begins as soon as the procedure is over. Most patients will notice an improvement in vision as soon as the surgery is over, and the final results should settle within 2 to 3 months, depending on the prescription. Your eyes will feel watery, gritty and/or heavy for around 3-4 hours after your procedure. Anaesthetic drops are supplied in your take-home pack, which you may want to use once or twice.

Who is suitable for LASIK surgery?

Most people who have healthy eyes and have short-sight with or without astigmatism are good candidates for LASIK eye surgery, except for extreme prescriptions. Mild to moderate degrees of long-sightedness can also usually be treated. We can also treat many patients who need glasses for reading with our LASIK Blended Vision procedure.

How much does LASIK cost?

Most clinics charge £2000 to £2500 per eye for laser eye surgery, so expect to pay between £4-5000 for the complete treatment. Prices advertising exceedingly low prices, e.g. “From £595...” are not usually genuine, limited to tiny prescriptions and using an older technology. Many of our patients who enquired at other centres found that even clinics advertising very low prices often charge more than £4,000 when modern technology is used for typical prescriptions. Remember that LASIK is not a commodity; it is precision microsurgery on your eyes. You are not buying LASIK surgery on its own but rather a complete treatment package. This must include a comprehensive assessment, meeting your surgeon on a day before your eye surgery is to happen (some clinics only do a phone call), and long-lasting aftercare. At Focus, we include a 10-Year Guarantee for free re-treatment (should it be needed and available for our short-sighted treatment patients) during the first decade after your surgery. Most clinics only include 12 months of free re-treatment. We also include our Lifetime Aftercare, where if you think your treatment is wearing off, you can return any time without charge, even many years later. Many clinics will charge you for attending after the initial period. Your LASIK fee is for a package of care so make sure you compare like-for-like when looking at laser treatment providers. Just comparing the quoted surgery price may leave you paying more later on.

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"Ray-tracing gives the best LASIK results we’ve ever seen. We test & refine the treatment on a working 3D digital clone of your eye before you ever go near the laser room."

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The first fully personalised LASIK treatment of it's kind.

Ray-Tracing Guided LASIK is a fully customised laser vision correction surgery that uses 3D ray‐tracing technology to scan each eye for a completely personalised outcome and significantly improved vision for whatever life might bring.

Focus Clinics' state of the art procedure uses Sightmap's Innoveyes diagnostic tool to create a custom, virtual 3D model of your eye.

This personalised model guides a highly customised procedure that can correct visual acuity and subtler, more complex vision problems.

This revolutionary technique allows surgeons to correct not just basic refractive errors (short-sightedness and astigmatism) but also subtle imperfections in the eye's optics.

We're thrilled to be the first in the UK to offer this technology, which offers the potential to achieve vision far better than 20/20 in the majority of patients.

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Ray-Tracing: LASIK Evolved

What Is Ray Tracing?

The digital cloning technology (WaveLight Plus) provides a personalised treatment based on your own unique eye rather than the prescription glasses you wear. Previously, treatments were the same between individuals if they wore the same glasses.

Using this advanced diagnostic technology, we trace how up to 2,000 beams of light move through your eye with microscopic precision of 1/100,000 of a millimetre. The Sightmap Innoveyes scanner technology also measures all the components of the eye, such as the length of the eyeball and its curvature.

Creating an Eyevatar

Knowing the shape of the eye and how it processes the 2,000 beams of light, a digital copy of your eye is created that understands precisely how each ray of light moves through your eye as it gets refracted and focused by the cornea and lens.

This personalised, multidimensional, 3D model of the eye, called the ‘eyevatar’, is invaluable as we can now virtually treat your eye and safely determine the best possible personalised treatment pattern before you have your actual physical procedure.

The Results of Ray-Tracing

This means increased safety and better vision results. In fact, in trial results, the majority of patients achieved supervision of 20/12 or even better.

For the first time, we are now offering true ‘personalised’ laser eye correction, employing tracking technology that allows the laser to move faster than the eye, simultaneously detecting and accommodating any eye movements like never before during the procedure.

For the first time, surgeons are now moving beyond 20/20 to achieve high-definition vision.

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At Focus Clinics, our team has over 70 years of combined industry experience and has completed over 60,000 successful surgeries.

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How Does RTG LASIK Compare To Traditional LASIK?

	LASIK	Ray-Tracing Guided LASIK
Basic measurements including eye prescription
Customised to your unique eye
Incorporates eye surface irregularity measurements into surgical plan
Creates a virtual 3D model of your eye
Total customisation to maximise your quality of vision
Cell	From £4,400	£6,500

	LASIK	Ray-Tracing Guided LASIK
Basic measurements including eye prescription
Customised to your unique eye
Incorporates eye surface irregularity measurements into surgical plan
Creates a virtual 3D model of your eye
Total customisation to maximise your quality of vision
Cell	From £4,400	£6,500

	LASIK	Ray-Tracing Guided LASIK
Basic measurements including eye prescription
Customised to your unique eye
Incorporates eye surface irregularity measurements into surgical plan
Creates a virtual 3D model of your eye
Total customisation to maximise your quality of vision
Cell	From £4,400	£6,500

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* 100% 20/20 success is from our peer-reviewed published results for LASIK binocular vision treating short-sight up to -6.00 dioptres including up to 2.00 dioptres of astigmatism.

**J Cataract Refract Surg. 2023 Nov 1;49(11):1140-1146. Ray-tracing-guided myopic LASIK: real-world clinical outcomes. George He, Chandra Bala

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