Six ways to say adéu.
If another method works better for your eyes, we'll tell you. We offer six different laser and lens procedures, so together with our team you can pick the one that's best for you.
What we run, and who each one is for.
The two we recommend most
The two we offer to most eyes. They correct the same things and reshape the same tissue. What changes is the size of the opening we make to get there.
- SMILE Pro
- Flap
- None
- Access
- 2 mm
- First days
- You see well the next day, and keep improving in the days after
- Back to work
- Usually the next day
- Right for
- Short-sightedness and astigmatism. What we recommend for most eyes
- Femto-LASIK
- Flap
- Made with a laser
- Access
- About 20 mm
- First days
- You see well the next day
- Back to work
- 1 to 2 days
- Right for
- Guided, personalised treatments, and corneas that ask for them
Other laser options
Two techniques with decades behind them, and the right answer for some corneas.
- LASIK
- Flap
- Instrument-made
- Access
- About 20 mm
- First days
- You see well the next day
- Back to work
- 1 to 2 days
- Right for
- A normal cornea with good thickness
- PRK
- Flap
- None
- Access
- The surface
- First days
- Uncomfortable, and vision takes longer
- Back to work
- 1 to 2 weeks
- Right for
- Thinner corneas, or corneas with an unusual shape
When a lens is the better answer
For eyes that go beyond what a laser can reshape.
- Implantable Lens
- Flap
- None
- Access
- Small opening
- First days
- You see well the next day
- Back to work
- 15 days
- Right for
- Prescriptions beyond what a laser can reshape. It sits in front of your own lens and can be removed
- Lens Exchange
- Flap
- None
- Access
- Small opening
- First days
- You see well the next day
- Back to work
- 10 to 15 days
- Right for
- Near vision as well as distance. It replaces the lens, so a cataract cannot form later
The seven things that separate them.
No numbers here, on purpose. A table cannot tell you which method fits your eyes. A scan of your cornea can, and that is what the free check is for.
Scroll sideways to see all six.
| Compared on | SMILE Pro | Femto-LASIK | LASIK | PRK | Implantable Lens | Lens Exchange |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Flap | None | Made with a laser | Instrument-made | None | None | None |
| Access | 2 mm | About 20 mm | About 20 mm | The surface | Small opening | Small opening |
| Comfort | Pressure, not pain | Pressure, not pain | Pressure, not pain | Pressure, not pain, then 3 to 4 uncomfortable days | Pressure, not pain | Pressure, not pain |
| First days | You see well the next day, and keep improving in the days after | You see well the next day | You see well the next day | Uncomfortable, and vision takes longer | You see well the next day | You see well the next day |
| Back to work | Usually the next day | 1 to 2 days | 1 to 2 days | 1 to 2 weeks | 15 days | 10 to 15 days |
| Sport | 1 day | 1 week | 1 week | 1 to 2 weeks | 15 days | 15 days |
| Right for | Short-sightedness and astigmatism. What we recommend for most eyes | Guided, personalised treatments, and corneas that ask for them | A normal cornea with good thickness | Thinner corneas, or corneas with an unusual shape | Prescriptions beyond what a laser can reshape. It sits in front of your own lens and can be removed | Near vision as well as distance. It replaces the lens, so a cataract cannot form later |
The ones people actually ask.
We offer six. The laser methods reshape the cornea: SMILE Pro works through an opening of about 2 mm with no flap, Femto-LASIK and LASIK lift a thin flap and reshape underneath, and PRK works on the surface instead of inside. The lens methods leave the cornea alone: an implantable lens sits in front of your natural one and can be removed again, and a lens exchange replaces the natural lens permanently. Your scans decide which fits.
The flap. LASIK makes it with a precision instrument, Femto-LASIK makes it with a femtosecond laser. What happens underneath is the same reshaping either way. We offer both, and the surgeon chooses between them from your scans.
No. It is the vision correction performed more than any other in the world, with decades of results behind it. Our six methods differ in how the cornea is opened, not in whether they work, and each one suits some eyes better than others. That is the reason we run all six.
From your scans, and never from the price: the two cost the same here. The thickness and the shape of your cornea decide it, and you get that answer on the day of your free check.
Because your cornea asks for it. A thinner or unusually shaped cornea can make a flap unwise, and PRK works on the surface instead. The scan decides it, and you get that answer on the day of your free check.
Because a laser reshapes the cornea, and some prescriptions are beyond what reshaping can do. Some corneas are also too thin for laser work. In those eyes a lens does what a laser cannot, and your scan is what tells us which case you are.
Adéu, maybe.
Thirty minutes, no cost, and a straight answer the same day. We measure your eyes, learn how you use them, and tell you which of our methods fits, if any of them does.