2018-05-08 14:15
Does SMILE Laser Eye Surgery hurt?
In our experience with patients, the worst part of Laser Eye Surgery always comes before the treatment.
This is pretty much how it goes for most big events… Read More
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2018-05-05 14:14
Can Laser Eye Surgery save you money?
You don’t want to be the person who goes to India and haggles the homeless lady on the street down from 1000 rupees to 80 for a sari. Or the… Read More
2018-05-02 14:14
What is the Care Quality Commission and why is it important
If you’re going to work with a business that offers health and social care services, you need to know about the Care Quality… Read More
2018-04-29 14:13
Top 5 coffee stops near us
Tea is the quintessential English beverage. Just like our favourite alcoholic tipple is beer and our most loved dish is the good traditional roast dinner.
Or… Read More
2018-04-26 14:13
SMILE vs LASIK: What’s the difference?
Chances are it’s happened to you.
You asked a friend to recommend you a film, and without hesitation, they came out with a name you didn&rs&hell…Read More
2018-04-23 14:12
Don’t like the tube or buses? Alternative ways to get to us
Clients come to us from every part of London, every county in England, every country in Europe, and every continen… Read More
2018-04-20 14:12
What’s it like working in and around Harley Street
For centuries, the closest most people got to Harley Street was knowing the name of an aristocrat, celebrity, or some other well-to-d… Read More
2018-04-17 14:11
The “do’s and dont’s” of eye drops
It’s a sad fact that today, the eyes of many people are suffering from a severe lack of moisture.
It’s not because… Read More
2018-04-14 14:13
What post-operative care you should expect after Laser Eye Surgery
It’s the weeks leading up to Laser Eye Surgery when you put the extra time in to make sure you’re fully prepare… Read More
2018-04-11 12:00
Dan Reinstein has Laser Eye Surgery to correct his reading glasses
Although he’s dedicated his career to improving the vision of others, Professor Dan Reinstein has had perfect eyesigh… Read More
2018-04-08 14:13
5 stars whose lives changed after Laser Eye Surgery
With their bags of charm, impeccable style sense, charismatic voices, and perfectly sculpted bods, celebrities can seem like they&rsq&hell…Read More
2018-04-02 14:12
4 Up close & personal accounts of Laser Eye Surgery
When thinking about having Laser Eye Surgery, it can seem like you’re the only person in the world who know’s what you&rs&hell…Read More
2018-03-27 14:12
The surprising benefits of Laser Eye Surgery
It’s always surprising to hear what people respond with when asked what they’ve got out of having Laser Eye Surgery.
The obvious adva… Read More
2018-03-21 14:11
2018 is a great year to sort your vision out
2018 will go down in history for many reasons. It’s the year Korea united under one flag at the Winter Olympics in PyeongChang, the ye… Read More
2018-03-15 14:11
Looking after your eyes on the London tube
Take a ride on the London underground and you’re destined to see sights you won’t have seen anywhere else. Strange characters dressed u… Read More
2018-03-09 14:10
Innovations in Laser Eye Surgery: ReLEx SMILE
Having surgery is always a big deal. Moving into a hospital ward. Wearing that embarrassing gown. The food. Being put under anaesthesia. Waking… Read More
2018-03-03 14:10
Staring at Facebook for 4 hours a day might be bad for you
Facebook has taken a bit of a bashing recently. Several studies have come out showing the damaging effects it can have on everythin… Read More
2018-02-26 14:09
Laser eye surgery is more within your grasp than you think
If you’ve been a long time glasses wearer, nothing beats the convenience of contact lenses — excluding the part where y… Read More
2018-02-21 14:09
Choosing sunglasses that really do protect your eyes
Factor 50 suntan lotion, check. Towels, check. Hats, SPF lip balm, 100 percent UV protected clothing and parasol, check, check, check. Oh… Read More
2018-02-16 14:08
How to avoid eye strain
Like migraines, weak glutes, and depression, eye strain seems like just another part of modern day life we have to accept. I can’t remember a time when I didn&r&hell…Read More
2018-02-11 14:08
London’s Mayor committed to reducing pollution, what this means for your eyesight
Think of cities with a serious pollution problem and you think of Delhi or Beijing — places k… Read More
2018-02-06 13:53
The only reason you should be scared of Laser Eye Surgery
There was a woman in her late 40s who recently visited the clinic, let’s call her Mandy, who was so reluctant to come in she… Read More
2018-02-03 11:52
5 Natural beauty tips for vibrant and healthy eyes
In 2017, a ton of new health and beauty trends came and went. Some of which included smudged lipstick to achieve the ‘just-kissed&rs&hell…Read More
2018-01-31 12:52
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, r… Read More
2018-01-28 15:51
Fitting Laser Eye Surgery into a hectic work schedule
How many times has someone said to you, “don’t worry, it will only take a minute”, for it to take around six hours, c… Read More
2018-01-25 14:18
Laser Eye Surgery advances
Imagine laying beneath a machine that is about to use invisible lasers to permanently remove tissue from your eye and transform your vision from terrible to perfec… Read More
2018-01-22 14:18
Long term effects of Laser Eye Surgery
There’s no getting around the fact that Laser Eye Surgery is a pretty young procedure, with the first formal treatments being carried out around… Read More
2018-01-19 14:17
Laser Eye Surgery for older patients
The last thing you want as you get older is to have surgery.
The uncomfortable feeling of being in hospital, the lengthy recovery times, the hassle and e… Read More
2018-01-16 14:16
Wearing false eyelashes after Laser Eye Surgery
The most frequently asked questions about Laser Eye Surgery may surprise you.
Of course, you’ve got all the ones you’d expect… Read More
2018-01-13 14:15
Short sighted eye surgery
If you’re shortsighted, Laser Eye Surgery was made for you — literally.
One of the earliest laser procedures, PRK, was specifically developed to tr… Read More
2018-01-08 14:15
Contact lenses vs glasses: Which provides better vision?
If you’ve ever worn contacts and glasses, you’ve probably noticed your quality of vision differs between the two —… Read More
2018-01-05 14:14
What happens if you blink during Laser Eye Surgery?
You do it anything from 5 to 15 times a minute, every minute, every waking hour of the day. That’s 30,000 times, 99.9 percent of whi… Read More
2018-01-02 14:14
Can you fly after Laser Eye Surgery?
If Laser Eye Surgery was known for one thing, it would probably be convenience.
Or quality.
Or efficiency.
Okay, so it’s hard to say just… Read More
2017-12-27 14:13
Laser surgery for long sight
I often wish I was long-sighted rather than short-sighted.
If I could only see well at a distance, For one, I could look in the mirror in the morning with a smil… Read More
2017-12-26 17:18
Youtuber and Fashion Blogger Sophie Milner has ReLEx SMILE
Sophie Milner, the face behind the popular blog Fashion Slave, is known for her empowering, glamorous, and often cut-throat c… Read More
2017-12-22 14:13
What causes halos after LASIK?
You’re not going to be walking around with a glowing ring floating over your head, but after having Laser Eye Surgery you are likely to experience anothe… Read More
2017-12-19 14:12
Laser Eye Surgery vs lens replacement
Lens replacement surgery is most commonly used as a way to treat patients with cataracts. Over 300,000 people in Britain alone have the procedure each y… Read More
2017-12-13 14:11
Sky Diver Jakob
One week after having ReLEx SMILE surgery, Jakob Anguiers, skydiver and amateur Youtuber, was hurtling towards the ground at a speed of around 125mph. Although he’d don… Read More
2017-12-07 14:10
10 Eye Tests Anyone Considering Laser Eye Surgery Should Know
More tests means more understanding. And more understanding means more detailed treatment plans, greater safety, and better outc… Read More
2017-12-04 14:30
Quality Laser Eye Treatments
We see it all the time when we’re out to dinner, shopping on the high street, or browsing through magazines and catalogues. But it’s pretty odd… Read More
2017-12-01 14:30
Laser Eye Surgery risks
Search the web for Laser Eye Surgery and you’ll come across everything from tabloid articles titled THE PROCEDURE THAT RUINED MY LIFE to companies touting money… Read More
2017-11-28 14:30
Never buy a pair of glasses again
Recently, while slumped over a Pret salad at work wondering why I never seem to have any money, I started working out what I could save by cooking an extra… Read More
2017-11-25 14:29
How Denise Van Outen stays looking young
Denise Van Outen certainly isn’t one to shy away from the spotlight.
The actor come presenter, singer, dancer, has hosted hit breakfa… Read More
2017-11-22 14:29
Why should the young have all the fun?
Every year we celebrate our chronological age, i.e how many years we’ve lived since our mothers performed the gracious act of bringing us into th… Read More
2017-11-22 13:24
At the Forefront of Refractive Surgery
The Forefront of Refractive Surgery presented by the London Vision Clinic focuses on the two most advanced and pioneering procedures in refractive surg… Read More
2017-11-19 14:28
Blurry, hazy & foggy. Not a hangover, but your vision in the morning
Dragging your body as if someone snuck in during the night and pumped it full of lead, you stumble to the bathroom an… Read More
2017-11-16 14:28
How to make your glasses cool — throw them in the bin
When a fresh piece of clothing or accessory is suddenly labelled ‘cool’ by the fashion police, it’s usually swif… Read More
2017-11-13 14:27
See more. Clearly.
Sure, you’ve visited the Grand Canyon, the Hanging Gardens of Babylon, or the Pyramids of Egypt, but did you really see them?
I mean, you have the photos and ev… Read More
2017-11-10 14:27
A day in the life of Dan Reinstein: Founder of London Vision Clinic
What is a day in the life like of a doctor who holds multiple postgraduate qualifications, is a fellow of three… Read More
2017-11-07 14:31
The cost of LASIK surgery
There’s no shortage of companies telling you why you should dish out more for Laser Eye Surgery…
“Put your sight in the hands of a clinic you can… Read More
2017-11-07 14:27
Meet Glenn Carp: One of the UK’s most highly trained laser eye surgeons
There are few people in the industry who’ve worked at over a handful of leading hospitals, won multiple aw… Read More
2017-11-04 14:26
Reading glasses are never cool
In the early 90’s, Doc Martins and flannel shirts hit the mainstream fashion scene. Soon after, babydoll dresses appeared in the wardrobes of most y… Read More
2017-11-01 14:26
Your private invitation to Harley Street
Nestled between two of the capital’s four Royal Parks — Regents and Hyde — as well as the Queen’s very own resting place &mda&hell…Read More
2017-10-29 14:25
Serious about sport. Serious about vision.
Nothing can get in the way of you and sport.
Torrential rain, family obligations, a thick covering of snow — these pesky… Read More
2017-10-26 14:25
Laser Eye Surgery in 2020
2020: It’s the year of the world’s first robot Olympics and a time when more people will have mobile phones than electricity, cars will drive … Read More
2017-10-23 14:24
The history of eye laser surgery
It’s 1940s Bogata, Columbia, while the country was in the midst of a ten-year long civil war, Ophthalmologist Jose Barraquer worked silently away… Read More
2017-10-20 14:24
What is ReLEx SMILE?
It may be a complete coincidence that ReLEx SMILE leaves patients with a broad and lasting grin on their faces after the procedure, but with the sense of humour of Profe… Read More
2017-10-17 14:23
Lasik vs Smile
Newer doesn’t always mean better.
My old worn-at-the-seams Converse are more comfortable than an unused, stiff and nice smelling pair. My s… Read More
2017-10-14 14:23
Visit us on Facebook
You wouldn’t think it, but working as a freelancer there are many times I miss being in a big office and working under the iron thumb of a boss.
For one… Read More
2017-10-11 14:23
Where do you keep your reading glasses?
At around a million times faster than NASA’s 1960’s computer, a smartphone is an incredibly sophisticated piece of tech. With it, you can… Read More
2017-10-08 14:22
Reading glasses are a rubbish solution
“I don’t need glasses! The text is just really small…” — My mum, every time she can’t read something
My mum has pr… Read More
2017-10-05 14:22
Protecting your eyes at work
Usually it’s only once we get home after a long, hard day’s work that our attention is drawn to our eyes. We notice they feel tired and strained, tha… Read More
2017-10-02 14:21
Rolling back the years: How to treat presbyopia
We accept ageing as a fact — an unavoidable process that governs all existence and affects us whether we like it or not.
And in many way… Read More
2017-09-29 14:21
Alternatives to laser surgery for your eyes
It’s taken us a long time to get to this point — around a thousand years to be more exact. Even longer if you count the early wor… Read More
2017-09-26 21:00
Would you consider cut-price Laser Eye Surgery?
Why would you pay more when you could get the same treatment and achieve the same outcome for less?
I mean, Laser Eye Surgery is Laser Eye Sur… Read More
2017-09-23 12:08
Can I fly after laser surgery?
As a nation, we’re utterly obsessed with jumping on planes and spending our hard earned time as far away as possible.
We put ourselves through… Read More
2017-09-20 10:12
Can laser treat my astigmatism?
If you have astigmatism, you’re probably hoping I get straight to the point. If you have really bad astigmatism, you’re probably not even reading… Read More
2017-09-17 14:19
Best time of year for Laser Eye Surgery
The 18th-century English theologian John Trusler once said, there’s “no time like the present, a thousand unforeseen circumstanc… Read More
2017-09-14 09:01
Astigmatism and Lasik surgery
According to some eye experts, all of us have astigmatism to some degree or other. But not all of us suffer from the eye strain, headaches, and fatigue that com… Read More
2017-09-11 14:18
Options for eye laser surgery
Today, it’s hard enough to choose what wine to drink and TV series to watch, never mind whether to have laser-assisted in situ keratomileusis or smal… Read More
2017-09-08 08:02
The risks of coloured or tinted contact lens
Today, contact lenses are sold around the world for many more reasons than solely improving vision.
In the East — particularly places like… Read More
2017-09-05 14:17
Glasses vs. Contacts vs. Surgery
If you want to improve your vision, you have three choices: glasses, contacts, or Laser Eye Surgery. And listed from the smallest to the largest commitm… Read More
2017-09-02 14:16
Laser Eye Surgery for Astigmatism
In the later stages of his life, Charles Darwin once wrote to a friend, “The eye to this day gives me a cold shudder”. Even himself, the father… Read More
2017-08-30 14:11
Never wear glasses or contact lenses again
In the early hours of January 1st this year, after one too many gin tonics, my friend slipped on some ice, faceplanted the pavement, chipped her fr… Read More
2017-08-27 10:26
Fed up of the constant on/off of reading glasses?
Only needing visual aid for some distances and not others presents a unique problem for wearers of reading glasses: where to put the da… Read More
2017-08-25 08:16
George Chesterton of GQ Magazine has Laser Blended Vision
To be an editor for one of the world’s leading publications, you need to be many things.
You need to be a critic for detail a… Read More
2017-08-24 14:10
The top tip to looking younger: don’t wear reading glasses
There’s no shortage of anti ageing and beauty tips that promise to turn back the years. But no matter what they ma… Read More
2017-08-21 15:09
Throw your reading glasses away
A lot of unexpected but unavoidable things happen as we get older.
Hair stops growing where it should and starts in obscure places, hard parts of the bod… Read More
2017-08-18 11:09
What is “dry eye” and how to treat it
Dry eye can be anything from a mild annoyance that affects you from time to time to an unrelenting condition that makes it hard to use your… Read More
2017-08-15 08:08
How to look after your eyes in the sun
The story goes that one day, while routinely observing the sun through his telescope, Galileo, the great polymath astronomer, was instantly blinde… Read More
2017-08-12 09:08
Eye health: Staying hydrated
Water is all around us: vast oceans cover nearly three-quarters of the world’s surface. It circulates in the air as vapour, flows in rivers, gathers as lak… Read More
2017-08-09 18:07
How to look after your eyes on holiday this summer
Spending a few hours in the sun is one of the best shortcuts to looking and feeling younger and healthier. But without taking the proper pr… Read More
2017-08-06 08:06
What does a pair of £5 reading glasses say about you?
Many great things have been said about the eyes.
The great Roman philosopher Cicero described the face as a picture of the mind an… Read More
2017-08-03 16:24
Obscure questions about Laser Eye Surgery
Remember when your teacher used to say, ‘There’s no such thing as a stupid question’, and you’d go ahead and ask&n&hell…Read More
2017-07-31 13:03
How safe is Laser Eye Surgery?
When asking friends and family and talking to people around the office about Laser Eye Surgery, you’ll probably find a lot more people have had it… Read More
2017-07-28 08:03
Laser Eye Surgery procedure: How complex is the treatment?
In general, treatments are as complex as the problem they’re designed to fix.
Minor cuts and scrapes are easily managed… Read More
2017-07-25 16:56
Watching TV after Laser Eye Surgery
When you say the word television, most people think of the plastic box that sits as the focal point in living rooms around the world.
But to a… Read More
2017-07-22 11:02
Blended Vision surgery recovery time
If you know a little bit about Blended Vision, you may have noticed it treats the symptoms of presbyopia in a similar way to the traditional approach of… Read More
2017-07-19 08:02
What is wavefront?
Since 1862, when dutch ophthalmologist Herman Snellen first designed a standard test for visual acuity, we’ve used the Snellen Chart as a basis for testing our visi… Read More
2017-07-16 14:01
When does presbyopia start?
Literally meaning “old eye”, presbyopia is the medical term we use for the natural effects of ageing on the eye.
The first thing you’re likely… Read More
2017-07-13 08:01
LASEK vs LASIK
The range of treatments available and the deceptive marketing tactics of some Laser Eye Surgery providers (*cough* high street clinics *cough*) can make it difficult to know… Read More
2017-07-09 17:58
What’s the recovery period for surgery like?
The typical recovery process after Laser Eye Surgery is surprisingly quick and trouble free.
From the very first moments after t… Read More
2017-07-02 19:47
How to look good in your glasses?
You’ve tried to embrace them as the fashion accessory — you really have. But unlike Jennifer Aniston or Anne Hathaway, you weren’t blessed… Read More
2017-06-29 15:46
Fed up of cheap reading glasses
They were never meant to be part of your life.
It was just another day on a routine shopping trip, after a morning of straining to read this month’s ban… Read More
2017-06-26 11:46
Anxious about Laser Eye Surgery? Read why you don’t have to be
Most of us have a weird, visceral reaction to the thought of someone touching our eyes. And even hearing the word mention… Read More
2017-06-23 18:46
Why Laser Eye Surgery could benefit you
Wearing glasses or contact lenses can at times feel like being in a relationship: you can’t live with them, but you can’t live withou… Read More
2017-06-20 09:45
10 things every glasses wearer will know
Glasses are cool. But the oil and pimples around the rims are not. Nor is the dumb feeling of waking up with no clue where you left them, only to fin… Read More
2017-06-17 12:45
Wake up sharp — not blurry
The day starts with a hunt around the house. You could have sworn you left them on the bedside table. Are they in the bathroom? Nope. Kitchen? Nope. 20 minut… Read More
2017-06-14 12:44
10 Facts about Laser Eye Surgery to put your mind at rest
No marketing hype or fake news here. Just 10 concrete, evidence-backed facts to wash away your doubts and fears and clear up your un… Read More
2017-06-11 16:56
Laser Eye Surgery vs contact lenses: Read the facts
Trying to figure out if you should have Laser Eye Surgery or not is generally not a barrel of laughs.
Granted, you don’t go into it… Read More
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