Led by your personally assigned doctor, our clinical team will perform a thorough evaluation of your suitability for surgery. This will include a comprehensive eye examination looking for signs of dry eye, large pupils, high eye pressure and other ocular-health conditions.

Detailed analysis of your cornea will allow your doctor to assess whether you can undergo the procedure safely and evaluate which areas of your cornea need reshaping. They will calculate and determine the precise amount of tissue to remove from your cornea.

Wearing contact lenses before your consultation can influence our measurements. You will be guided by a patient coordinator if we require you to pause contact lens wear for a week or two in order to examine the eyes in their natural state.

Our focus is to achieve complete satisfaction. All our patients are treated until discharge as part of the inclusive care plan. This includes 2 years of follow up and retreatments after your initial treatment. Although you may be discharged, all our patients remain under our care and we positively encourage patients to get in touch should problems arise.

Our success has been dependent on personalised patient care and we believe this is paramount. All patients will see their surgeon at each visit as they are personally responsible for your care so you are safe in the knowledge that you are receiving the best possible standard of care.

Your procedure will be performed by the same consultant ophthalmologist who assessed your eyes at the initial consultation. A team of optometrists and nurses will also be present to assist and provide any support that you require. CLEAR is usually completed in under 10 minutes.

During the procedure, you will lie on your back in a reclining chair. You may be given medicine to help you relax. After numbing drops are placed in your eye, an instrument is gently positioned to hold your eyelids open. The Ziemer Z-8 laser creates a precise clear window (lenticule) within the centre of the cornea.

The surgeon gently removes the lenticule through a small incision to reshape the profile of the cornea and correct the vision. The vast majority of patients will have both eyes treated on the same day.

CLEAR is a single-step, flapless procedure meaning you will not feel any pressure sensation and treatment can be completed in a matter of minutes.

At our clinics in Guildford, London, Manchester, Portsmouth, Sheffield, Winchester and Woking, the vast majority of patients have no pain but some may feel a little grittiness in the eyes for a couple of days.

You will be given a set of eye drops to take at home that vastly reduce the risk of infection and inflammation. These generally last for the first 4 weeks but some patients may require lubrication drops for the first few months. Although you will be able to see immediately after surgery, your vision will improve over time.

Whilst you should be legal to drive the next day, it may take between 4 and 12 weeks after your surgery before your eye heals and your vision stabilises. Your doctor will ensure that you are progressing normally at a series of planned follow-up appointments. It might be a few weeks before you can start to use cosmetics around your eyes again. You might also have to wait several weeks before resuming strenuous contact sports or swimming.

Although complications are rare, it should not be forgotten that laser eye surgery is a surgical procedure. No procedure is risk-free but steps are taken throughout the process to minimise any potential risks.

CLEAR is considered to be one of the safest procedures available. In trials conducted on SMILE, it was found that over 1,000 patients in the UK, Germany, France and Denmark yielded excellent results. Comprehensive screening of our patients means that surgery can only be performed on eyes which have been deemed suitable.

The experience of our clinical team minimises the small associated risks of laser surgery which include dry eyes, haloes, glare and under or over-correction. Your doctor will ensure that you are fully informed of all potential risks prior to treatment. Our team of consultant ophthalmologists are dual-trained in cornea and refractive surgery to ensure that you receive the most effective care.