Why can London Vision Clinic treat higher prescriptions than the norm?
Many patients will notice that London Vision Clinic is able to treat prescriptions that are higher than those commonly treatable with laser eye surgery in other clinics. One of our values is to be reassuringly rigorous, to do this; we spend a great deal of time with patients to conduct their preoperative screening. This extremely thorough evaluation is coupled with unique assessment technology (i.e. Artemis) that can assist us in approving cases that would be considered borderline at most clinics. Because we don’t attract excessively large numbers of people to our clinic, we’re able to spend as much time as necessary seeing one patient in the same amount of time it may take other clinics to see as much as four. We further enhance our confidence by repeating many of the tests we do in extreme conditions (i.e. full darkness pupillometry, reduced light contrast sensitivity testing, dilated refractions). Again, all of this takes time, and if we needed to rush patients through a pipeline, w
