This year has seen expansion in the number of laser eye clinics in the UK and Ireland and a further trend towards lens procedures. Alison Ewbank reports on the findings of Optician's seventh annual survey of the market
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Reports of clinical outcomes over the past 12 months have been mainly positive. In December last year, a US study comparing Lasik and Lasek for the treatment of low to moderate myopia found that both were safe, effective, predictable procedures with similar visual and refractive results.1 The findings of a study looking at Lasik in the presbyopic age group were also favourable.2 US surgeons claimed that laser refractive surgery carried a lower risk than contact lens wear.3
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