{"@context":"http:\/\/schema.org","@type":["MedicalProcedure","Product","Service"],"alternateName":["Laser eye surgery","laser assisted in-situ keratomileusis"],"image":"https:\/\/www.alexshortt.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/LASIK-London-Alex-Shortt-2-min.jpg","description":"LASIK (laser assisted in-situ keratomileusis) is the most popular and well-known type of laser eye surgery. It can be used to treat myopia (short sight), hyperopia (long sight), astigmatism. It is also the same type of laser treatment which is used to perform PRESBYOND\u2122 Laser Blended Vision Treatment.","url":"https:\/\/www.alexshortt.co.uk\/lasik\/","howPerformed":"During a LASIK procedure, the outer layers of the cornea, which is the transparent tissue layer that sits over the eye, are lifted back by me, your eye surgeon, revealing the deeper cornea tissue. For the outer layer to be gently lifted, the femtosecond laser is used to send microscopic laser pulses onto the cornea, which causes bubbles to form underneath. This results in a flap, which the surgeon can lift and lay back easily and painlessly. I then reshape the cornea using an Excimer laser, correcting the eye\u2019s refractive error. The flap is then replaced, and is smoothed back and the healing process begins.","areaServed":["http:\/\/www.wikidata.org\/entity\/Q84","https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Guildford"],"medicineSystem":"WesternConventional","procedureType":"PercutaneousProcedure","bodyLocation":"Eye","name":"LASIK","relevantSpecialty":"Optometric","hoursAvailable":[{"@type":"OpeningHoursSpecification","closes":"17:30","name":"Opening hours - Optegra Eye Hospital Central London","opens":"09:30","dayOfWeek":["Friday","Tuesday","Wednesday"],"@id":"https:\/\/www.alexshortt.co.uk\/optegra-eye-hospital-london\/#OpeningHoursOptegraCentralLondon"},{"@type":"OpeningHoursSpecification","closes":"17:30","name":"Opening Hours - Optegra Guildford","opens":"09:30","dayOfWeek":"Monday","@id":"https:\/\/www.alexshortt.co.uk\/optegra-eye-hospital-london\/#OpeningHoursOptegraGuildford"}],"isSimilarTo":[{"@id":"https:\/\/www.alexshortt.co.uk\/lens-replacement-rle\/"},{"@id":"https:\/\/www.alexshortt.co.uk\/presbyond\/"},{"@type":["Service","Product","MedicalProcedure"],"hoursAvailable":[{"@id":"https:\/\/www.alexshortt.co.uk\/optegra-eye-hospital-london\/#OpeningHoursOptegraCentralLondon"},{"@id":"https:\/\/www.alexshortt.co.uk\/optegra-eye-hospital-london\/#OpeningHoursOptegraGuildford"}],"areaServed":["http:\/\/www.wikidata.org\/entity\/Q213465","http:\/\/www.wikidata.org\/entity\/Q84"],"isSimilarTo":[{"@id":"https:\/\/www.alexshortt.co.uk\/lasik\/"},{"@type":["Service","Product","MedicalProcedure"],"hoursAvailable":[{"@id":"https:\/\/www.alexshortt.co.uk\/optegra-eye-hospital-london\/#OpeningHoursOptegraCentralLondon"},{"@id":"https:\/\/www.alexshortt.co.uk\/optegra-eye-hospital-london\/#OpeningHoursOptegraGuildford"}],"areaServed":["http:\/\/www.wikidata.org\/entity\/Q213465","http:\/\/www.wikidata.org\/entity\/Q84"],"isSimilarTo":[{"@id":"https:\/\/www.alexshortt.co.uk\/lasik\/"},{"@id":"https:\/\/www.alexshortt.co.uk\/relex-smile\/"},{"@type":["Service","Product","MedicalProcedure"],"hoursAvailable":[{"@id":"https:\/\/www.alexshortt.co.uk\/optegra-eye-hospital-london\/#OpeningHoursOptegraCentralLondon"},{"@id":"https:\/\/www.alexshortt.co.uk\/optegra-eye-hospital-london\/#OpeningHoursOptegraGuildford"}],"alternateName":["lens replacement surgery","Refractive Lens Exchange","RLE"],"url":"https:\/\/www.alexshortt.co.uk\/lens-replacement-rle\/","howPerformed":"RLE is similar to cataract surgery in many ways, but there are significant differences. In both cataract surgery and RLE surgery, I remove the natural lens of the eye and permanently replace it with an artificial intraocular lens (IOL).  RLE differs in that it requires:  more sophisticated pre-operative testing to measure the eye\u2019s optics, more sophisticated lens implants such as multifocal and toric lens implant, and an experienced surgeon with very low complication rates. Furthermore, you need a surgeon who is also experienced in laser eye surgery because up to 5% of patients who undergo refractive lens exchange require a minor laser eye surgery procedure to fine tune the vision and achieve the very best outcome.","image":"https:\/\/www.alexshortt.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/Lens-Replacement-RLE-London-Alex-Shortt.jpg","description":"Lens replacement or Refractive Lens Exchange (RLE) is an advanced form of vision correction surgery which we use to treat patients over 50 years of age who need glasses for both distance and for reading.  With this treatment, up to 95% of patients are entirely glasses free with the remaining 5% of patients needing to wear a weak pair of glasses for specific tasks such as reading very tiny print or reading in the very dim light.","medicineSystem":"WesternConventional","procedureType":"PercutaneousProcedure","bodyLocation":"Eye","relevantSpecialty":"Optometric","name":"Lens Replacement","@id":"https:\/\/www.alexshortt.co.uk\/lens-replacement-rle\/"}],"alternateName":["laser blended vision","Reading vision surgery","Reading vision treatment"],"manufacturer":"http:\/\/www.wikidata.org\/entity\/Q76833","howPerformed":"The outer layers of the cornea, which is the transparent tissue layer that sits over the eye, are lifted back by your eye surgeon, revealing the deeper cornea tissue. For the outer layer to be gently lifted, the femtosecond laser is used to send microscopic laser pulses onto the cornea, which causes bubbles to form underneath. This results in a flap, which the surgeon can lift and lay back easily and painlessly. Then the cornea will be reshaped using an Excimer laser, correcting the eye\u2019s refractive error. The flap is then replaced, and is smoothed back and the healing process begins.","url":"https:\/\/www.alexshortt.co.uk\/presbyond\/","image":"https:\/\/www.alexshortt.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/Presbyond-Alex-Shortt-london-e1542207583206.jpg","description":"For patients in their 20s to 30s, optometrists and ophthalmologists prescribe glasses, contact lenses or laser eye surgery to correct their prescription to zero. As a result, they no longer need glasses for distance or for near because they are able to use the muscle in their eye to activate the focusing mechanism and see up close without glasses.  Patients aged 45 and over, however, correcting their prescription to zero in both eyes leaves them dependent on reading glasses because of a phenomenon called presbyopia.  This is where we all, unfortunately, lose the ability to focus the eyes on small print as we age. Some presbyopic patients are quite happy to aim for zero prescription in both eyes and wear reading glasses.  For others, this defeats the purpose of having laser eye surgery. In this latter group of patients who really do want to be glasses-free for all but the finest of near visual tasks (for example, reading tiny print) a technique called monovision is very successful. PRESBYOND \u00ae or laser blended vision, is an evolution of monovision with the specific benefit that the blend between the two eyes is superior and the overall depth of focus is better throughout the entire visual range.","medicineSystem":"WesternConventional","procedureType":"PercutaneousProcedure","bodyLocation":"Eye","relevantSpecialty":"Optometric","name":"PRESBYOND","audience":"http:\/\/www.wikidata.org\/entity\/Q379689","@id":"https:\/\/www.alexshortt.co.uk\/presbyond\/"},{"@id":"https:\/\/www.alexshortt.co.uk\/lens-replacement-rle\/"}],"image":"https:\/\/www.alexshortt.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/ReLEx-SMILE-London-Alex-Shortt.jpg","url":"https:\/\/www.alexshortt.co.uk\/relex-smile\/","howPerformed":"Relex SMILE is the name given to the third generation of laser eye surgery. It was developed to overcome many of the drawbacks of previous generations of laser eye surgery.  The procedure itself involves a Femtosecond laser to sculpt and correct the shape of the cornea into the shape that is required to focus light on the surface of the retina without any need for glasses or contact lenses.  The way the laser does this is it works deep within the cornea to free up and shape what we call the lenticule that is effectively the shape of a lens within the cornea.  Following this, the laser then makes a tiny 3 mm incision in the edge of the cornea and with a very tiny pair of forceps we reach into the cornea and remove the excess tissue and thereby the shape of the cornea alters and the glasses prescription is corrected.","description":"SMILE (Small Incision Lenticule Extraction) is a minimally invasive procedure, which can correct higher degrees of myopia (short sightedness). For this reason, SMILE is suitable for individuals with or without astigmatism.","sameAs":"https:\/\/eyewiki.aao.org\/Small_Incision_Lenticule_Extraction_(SMILE)","medicineSystem":"WesternConventional","procedureType":"PercutaneousProcedure","bodyLocation":"Eye","alternateName":"Small Incision Lenticule Extraction","relevantSpecialty":"Optometric","name":"SMILE","@id":"https:\/\/www.alexshortt.co.uk\/relex-smile\/"}],"@id":"https:\/\/www.alexshortt.co.uk\/lasik\/"}