Bajie

It was £2200 but this included all consultation and any post treatment care or further work, if needed. This was a year ago, so may be cheaper now.

I went along to collect her from the clinic. Its a very strange experience, as patients waiting for treatment are given drops to dilate their eyes to the maximum. Its like a holding station for aliens, all these people sitting around with massive black eye *****

As for it being new and potentially unresearched, the Russians pioneered this and have been doing it for 20 years. Its no more risky than any other surgery.

 

and the other thing I forgot to say was as my wife is in mid thirties we didnt think it was worth having a few years with no glasses. Had she been 20, different story, Im sure it would have been done by now.

 

Been thinking about this for a while......

Boots in Nottingham quoted me £1250 per eye Is it a lot cheaper elsewhere?

Also, I heard that if you develop cataracts in later life it may be harder to operate on them after this surgery. Is this true?

 

Longsightedness is caused by the lens being less convex than normal and the theoretical solution is to "add" to the thickness of the lens in the middle, whereas in short-sightedness, the lens is more convex and need to be lasered away to produce the correct curvature. Intuitively, it is a much simplier procedure to vaporise some lens material in the center to correct for shortsightness than to reshape the lens to make it more curved.
BTW, for mild shortsightedness, reading glasses are not required and unless you resort to multifocal lenses for reading, the easier solution is to not wear your glasses. So for old gits like me, the consolation for having missed out on laser surgery is to laugh at my gambling friends who can't see their cards if they forgot to bring their reading glasses.