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SITE LAST UPDATED:
19 June 2009
HELPFUL HINTS
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Like Millions, Julie's sight began to fail when she hit 40. Now it's perfect again thanks to a new plastic implant. More than 23 million people in Britain suffer from presbyopia – a form of long-sightedness which usually affects those aged 40 and over. Until recently it’s been impossible to cure it, and most people had to use reading glasses. But now, lens implants remove the need for spectacles. Last year Julie Young became of the first to have these revolutionary lenses. The Daily Mail - January 2007 |
Now you can really restore your failing eyesight FADING vision, headaches, eyestrain or fatigue while trying to read or carry out intricate work are often symptoms that lead people rushing to the opticians. Deteriorating eyesight can be gradual, and most put it down to old age, believing there is no solution. They get themselves glasses or contact lenses and believe that have no choice but to live with it. READ MORE >> Nicky Hamilton Jones At Home Magazine - November 2007
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My failing eyesight made me a recluse Long gone are the days when those without 20/20 vision were stuck with the dull choice of either spectacles or contact lens to correct their vision. Laser eye surgery is now considered to be an equally respectable option. It is estimated that 30% of the population in the UK is shortsighted and more than 68% of people over the age of 16 wear glasses or contact lenses. READ MORE >> Nicky Hamilton Jones At Home Magazine - November 2007
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I’d been wearing thick glasses since the age of five, and, after a pair shattered in my face when I was 11, playing piggy-back, they had to be made of plastic. I hated them and couldn’t wait to have contact lenses when I was 16. Finally, in May 2004, after a string of nasty eye infections, my optician told me... READ MORE >> Prima - January 2006
At 20 I had perfect vision, at 30 I needed reading glasses, at 40 bifocals and at 50 varifocals worn at all times. From then on the first task on awakening was to grope for my specs, knocking over my night-time drink in the process. Every 18 months I paid a visit to the opticians to check on how much worse my vision had become and searched for frames to match the increasing thickness of my lenses. Faced with regular bills I would stagger at the cost of such a simple piece of face engineering but pay begrudgingly and hope they lasted until the whole process started again. Some time later I was on holiday in Barbados sporting my new reactor lenses, splashing along the beach acknowledging that the sea was unusually rough, when a chunk of... READ MORE >> Compass - November 2005
Glenys Cookman’s sight was so poor she couldn’t see beyond the end of her nose. Blighted by eye infections and embarrassed to wear her special thick specs in public, the 35-year-old mum became a prisoner in her own home….by Paul Johnson I’ve always had really bad eyesight. My one wish since I was a little girl was that my eyes would be like everyone else’s. But at school I had to wear really thick glasses and got teased about it a lot – I felt like a real ugly duckling... READ MORE >> DAILY MIRROR - 7 APRIL 2005
It’s a day that will be etched on my memory forever – the day the optician came to school, and sent me home to my Mum with that dreaded little brown envelope. I was only nine, but I knew what it meant; a trip to the opticians in the high street for a proper eye test – and then wearing glasses for the rest of my days. . READ MORE >> DAILY ECHO - 7 AUGUST 2004
Having worn glasses permanently for the last five years, Lynne Line was thrilled when she heard about a new procedure which could rid her of them for life. She tells EMMA JOSEPH about her refractive eye surgery. When Lynne’s son announced in 1999 that he was getting married she was determined her glasses would not spoil her enjoyment of the day. The first port of call for the 55-year-old from Church Lane, Botley, was contact lenses, but she found even those posed their problems. After wearing them for the wedding in 2000 Lynne, who runs the Botley Bathroom Centre with her husband Peter, began to realise she still could not go about her day-to-day life with ease. READ MORE >> SOUTHERN DAILY ECHO - OCTOBER 2003  Op
that will see off your glasses Surgeons have found a way to permanently correct deteriorating eyesight in middle-age. Laser surgery has become hugely popular among Britons but it cannot be used for people who suddenly find their eyesight goes downhill when they hit their 40s and 50s. READ MORE >> DAILY EXPRESS - 22 SEPTEMBER 2003 
Laser cure brings life back into focus for Joanne
Joanne Churchill could barely believe her eyes when her world was bought back into sharp focus. For over 20 years life had been one long blur for the 35-year-old who suffered from short-sight, which is caused by the cornea being too steeply curved for its own focusing power, resulting in blurred distance vision. READ MORE >> LIFESTYLE MAGAZINE - JULY/AUGUST 2003  I
can see clearly now For
as long as she can remember, Joanne Churchill hated wearing glasses.
She tried contact lenses, but found them only marginally better.
Then she discovered laser eye surgery. She tells Emma Joseph
about her life changing experience. SOUTHERN DAILY ECHO - 1 JULY 2003
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surgery proves a real ‘eye-opener’ for local patients
Pioneering laser eye surgery is now available to residents of Hampshire, Dorset and Wiltshire thanks to a new service set up by a locally based Consultant Surgeon. READ MORE > LIFESTYLE MAGAZINE - MAY/JUNE 2003  Laser
fix see eye-catching figures
About 30,000 Britons a year - including a smattering of celebrities - have laser eye surgery. And it's now available locally. People who live in Winchester and surrounding areas have become the latest in Britain to be able to undergo laser eye surgery with a locally-based consultant surgeon. READ MORE > HAMPSHIRE CHRONICLE - 24 January 2003
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My failing eyesight made me a recluse 
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