Ck Eye Surgery

Ultralase is the leading provider of LASIK & Wavefront treatment in United Kingdom. At the first time established in UK (January 1991), it was a sister clinic to the Toronto Facility (Canada) and opened at Clatterbridge Hospital, Wirral. This clinic having specialization in PRK (Photo-Refractive Ceratectomy; first type of laser eye surgery).

LASIK (LASer In-situ Keratomileusis) technique was first introduced at Ultralase in 1995. Beside that Ultralase also extending its treatment to thousands of patients suffering from long-sightedness, astigmatism and more extreme short-sightedness.

Untill 2002, Ultralase had opened many clinics around the country which was in Birmingham, Bristol, Cardiff, Chelmsford, Guildford, Leeds City Centre, London (Hammersmith and Tottenham Court Road), Manchester, Newcastle upon Tyne and St Albans. An additional two clinics was built at Reading, in 2005 & Glasgow by the end of 2006.

Ultralase had gained many recognition and achievement which was:

• Achieving rankings in the Inner City 100 Index and the Sunday Times Virgin Atlantic Fast Track 100 listings.

• Plain English Campaign's coveted Crystal Mark in 2004 Mark for the clarity of its brochure.

• November 2003, the first groups in the UK to install the Bausch & Lomb Zyoptix Z100 laser system throughout its clinics, offering Wavefront-guided treatment, iris recognition and multi-dimensional eye-tracking capability.

• May 2005, Ultralase performed its 100,000th laser eye surgery, and with capacity for more than 2500 LASIK eye surgeries to be performed each month.

• June 2005, Ultralase's first intra-ocular eye surgery.

• Per August 2005, Ultralase has launched two new brands - Ultralase Vision Correction (continuing to specialize in laser eye treatment and other forms of vision correction) and Ultralase Medical Aesthetics (introducing cosmetic and aesthetic treatments) into the UK. The first Medical Aesthetics clinic is now open in Hammersmith, London. This makes Ultralase remain at the forefront of laser eye surgery in the UK due to their continuing investment in laser technology.

• June 2006, Ultralase introduces Intralase technology across the UK.

• September 2006, Ultra-CK (conductive keratoplasty), the non-laser treatment for presbyopia; a gradual loss of close-up focusing ability caused by natural ageing process, is launched in clinics.

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Yudi Hariyanto, would like to share his knowledge to others. Read his articles at http://lasikfreeinfo.blogspot.com

Article Source: ArticlesBase.com - Laser Eye Surgery in Uk: Ultralase – an Overview

Has anyone had CK eye surgery to restore functional near vision?

I have seen advertisements for this and am curious...what does it cost? Recuperation time? Painful? Do you need reading glasses AT ALL after this surgery?
Clarification: From what I understand, this surgery is not LASIK. It's supposedly done with radio wave frequency. I know a lot about LASIK...this is something different entirely and relatively new here in Fresno, California. Anyone know anything about CK?

Conductive Keratoplasty (Refractec, Inc. Irvine, CA ) builds upon the principles of thermokeratoplasty, using radiofrequency (RF) energy to reshape the cornea and therefore adjust its refractive characteristics. CK may be performed for low to moderate hyperopia (between +0.75 and +3.00 diopters). To perform the procedure, a handpiece with a Keratoplast Tip delivers controlled RF energy directly to the corneal stroma in a ring pattern. Conductive Keratoplasty creates a purse-string effect that steepens the central cornea through a ring of application spots around the periphery of the cornea.

CK leads one to have functional near vision by creating 'Monovision'. Monovision is a method of presbyopic correction whereby the dominant eye is usually corrected for distance vision and the nondominant eye corrected for near. Monovision can be achieved using many techniques of which Conductive keratoplasty is one. Monovision can be achieved by either CK or Lasik.

Please remember an important point. Presbyopes cannot have perfect distance vision as well as perfect near vision simultaneouly in the same eye. Meaning - if distance vision in one eye is good then near vision will be bad, and conversely if near vision is good then distance vision will be bad. That is why the strategy of Monovision is used in CK. So one eye is treated to be really good for distance and the other eye is better for near. Working together both eyes give good 'functional vision' at most distances. This functional vision is neither perfect for distance nor perfect for near. Therefore, there may be a need to supplement vision with glasses.

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