Can I have laser eye surgery if I have dry eye?
Yes, you can and what is important is that your degree of dry eye is properly assessed and managed by your laser eye surgeon and factored into your suitability. Occasionally your eyes will be considered too dry for laser eye surgery and a few of my patients have been told this and while it's disappointing, it's better to be told you are not suitable than go ahead and have issues after laser eye surgery. You may be surprised to know that dry eye varies according to whether you
What does the future of laser eye surgery hold?
I have been doing laser eye surgery for 15 years now and I have seen some amazing advances. And every time I think, well it can’t get any better than this, something comes along that proves me wrong. I am sometimes asked what does the future hold for laser eye surgery. I would make two predictions. One, is that laser eye surgery will increasingly be a “no touch” procedure meaning that I will need to do less and less as a surgeon and my main job will be to program and superv
An increasingly short sighted world
Many will remember our mum or dad shouting at us as kids " if you sit too close to the TV, you will go blind!" Nowadays I am the one constantly telling my kids to sit further away from the PC or to stop holding their phones so close to their face.... because as it turns out, mum and dad were right. Myopia or shortsightedness is on the rise and estimated to affect >50% of the population by 2050. While it may not seem like a big concern to have to wear glasses or contact lenses
