What Price Laser Eye Surgery?

What price indeed. laser eye surgery has become pretty popular over the last few years with around seventy five thousand people thought to undertaking the surgery each year in the UK. However with ten million short sighted people in the UK, this represents a fairly small percentage of the overall potential market.

Laser eye surgery involves the permanently changing the cornea of each eye so that the patient no longer requires glasses or contact lenses for perfect vision. The procedure itself takes very little time, in fact only a few minutes. Local anaesthetic, usually in the form of eye drops is required, otherwise very little preparation is required prior to undertaking laser eye surgery.

So why the limited take up of laser eye surgery? Well one likely factor is the confusing pricing that cannot be helping consumers decide to go ahead with laser eye procedure. A brief look around on google uncovered one clinic in the north east charging just shy of four thousand pounds for surgery on both eyes. Whilst for average shortsightedness, most clinics seem to be pricing laser eye surgery in the £295 to £2,300 per eye.

It is worth shopping around, as more clinics enter the market there certainly seems to be a fair amount of downward pressure on pricing for laser eye surgery, we'll keep a close eye on things and report back if we see prices falling. As ever safety is paramount so do your research before choosing a clinic.

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