Home Procedures LASIK
LASIK: eleven minutes, honestly described.
Preview the result.
Your actual dioptres get dialled in at the scan — this demo starts at a typical −4.50.
What actually happens.
Numbing drops, no needles
Your eye is numbed with drops. A gentle holder keeps you from blinking — the machine tracks your eye a thousand times a second, so even if you moved, the laser follows or stops.
Tracking — 1,000 Hz
The flap, then the sculpt
A femtosecond laser lifts a micro-thin flap; the excimer laser reshapes the cornea beneath — about eight seconds per dioptre. You watch a green light; the room smells faintly odd; someone narrates everything.
Narrated — always
Four hours of gritty, then sleep
The flap seals itself. The afternoon feels like onions and sand — that's normal, it passes with a nap. You'll be told to shower with your back to the spray and to leave your eyes alone. Do both.
Driving next day — usually yes
Risks, with numbers.
Dry eyes
Nearly everyone, for weeks; about 4% still using drops at six months, under 1% at a year. We screen tear film at the scan and will delay surgery to fix it first.
Night halos
Common in month one, then fading — the slider on this page shows what patients describe. Persistent visual symptoms at one year: 1.2% in our audited series, most mild.
Needing a touch-up
0.4% of eyes want an enhancement within the year. It's free in year one, and the decision is made on your numbers, not your patience.
The serious stuff
Sight-threatening complications: zero in our last five audited years, one in the five before (resolved to 20/30). We quote our own numbers, not the literature's — you're choosing a clinic, not an average.