LASER VISION: Technology

Our facility at the world renowned Queen Victoria Hospital NHS Trust, East Grinstead boasts sophisticated equipment and is arguably the most modern Cornea centre in the United Kingdom.

Our Lasers

Intralase

Intralase Femtosecond Laser

The INTRALASE FS laser - currently the only one in the UK installed at the Centre for Sight since August 2004. The Centre for Sight is a reference centre for the laser and numerous surgeons from Europe and other countries have visited us to learn more about the laser and see it in action.

The Laser works by using light in the Infrared spectrum to separate tissue. The pulse of the laser is VERY short (Femtosecond - a very small fraction of a second) and if travelling at the speed of light would only partially cross a human hair. Contrast this to a particle travelling at the speed of light which in ONE second would go around the world 7 times !

The pulse of the laser separates the cornea precisely and accurately in full view of the surgeon. Use of the laser makes the Laser vision correction procedure INTRALASIK - extremely SAFE, ACCURATE, PREDICTABLE and in turn gives us BETTER OUTCOMES and BETTER VISION. Results

Bausch&Lomb 217 Z100 laser

Like the Intralase,the Bausch & Lomb 217 Z100 Excimer is permanently based within our surgical facility. A state of the art scanning laser, it has active eye tracker and automatic iris recognition technology.

The Z100 laser, which supercedes the 217z, runs at twice the speed, saves corneal tissue and reduces further the risk of night vision aberrations.

OrbscanZ

A Corneal Tomography machine An instrument that evaluates the cornea in 3 dimensions and assists examination of your eyes at consultation. It measures the cornea using scanning slit beams of life captured onto video. The images are then analysed mathematically to give us information about your cornea. The use of 3-dimensional scanning is now considered the standard of care in evaluating corneas prior to surgery. This helps eliminate certain patients who might be at risk and would not be otherwise identified.

Zywave

This device measures aberrations of the optical system in addition to the level of myopia (near sight), Hyperopia(far sight) and astigmatism.It uses the Hartmann-Shack method of measurement and breaks down each eye's unique wavefront into other components for analysis.Terminology such as spherical aberration, coma, trefoil, guadrafoil etc.are used and the amounts of each indicates to the surgeon how visually destructive they are and whether they should be treated. Click Here to read more on Wavefront.

Technology Collaborations

Mr. Daya and Centre for Sight have worked closely with the ophthalmic industry and have designed a variety of precision instruments for use in Ophthalmology. Mr. Daya collaborates closely with companies such as Titanium Surgical Instruments, Duckworth & Kent, John Weiss, Bausch and Lomb, and Hurricane.

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