This isn’t sci-fi, this is real life – revolutionary Supracor laser treatment corrects both short and longsight for over-45s without compromise on quality of vision.

Being involved in the field of laser eye surgery is sometimes like being in a sci-fi movie – things happen that would previously have been considered impossible. Take Marty McFly’s hoverboard in the film Back to the Future 2 for example – in 1989 the idea of being able to whiz around on a skateboard that hovered above the ground was a fantastic but impossible invention; fast forward to 2011 though and scientists have very cleverly figured out how quantum levitation works.

The actual usefulness of the hoverboard is debatable of course, but the latest technological advance in laser vision correction Supracor is a much-needed and highly valuable technique for achieving what was previously impossible – to turn the clock back for middle aged people by correcting both their distance and near vision, without compromising either and with outstanding results.

There are few things that make us feel our age more than the realisation that we need reading glasses. We pretend it’s not happening at first by holding books and mobiles further away whilst we squint and gurn in an attempt to bring things into focus, but it’s a pointless resistance – after all, it’s completely natural that after the age of 40 the muscles of the eye begin to lose their ability to change focus and it gets harder to see clearly at close distances.

However, for those who are already shortsighted, having to change up to wearing varifocals or juggle two pairs of glasses feels like yet another tiresome and undeserved misfortune.
Until now, the only surgical procedures for correcting both short and longsightedness at the same time has been monovision or blended vision treatments, but the results cannot be described as excellent. These treatments involve correcting one eye for distance and one eye for near vision, leaving the brain to adjust the imbalance to produce good, but not perfect, vision.

This is not a treatment that we at AVC offer our patients because it simply does not deliver what they both want and deserve. Despite this fact, there are some well-known clinics that continue to recommend blended vision procedures and, unfortunately, there continues to be dissatisfaction at the results.

Supracor is ground-breaking because it corrects both distance and near prescriptions at the same time to produce outstanding balanced vision for all distances.

The simple Supracor procedure begins in the same way as the Intralase LASIK treatment which involves creating a thin flap on the surface of the cornea using an Intralase blade-free laser. Then the Technolas Supracor excimer laser precisely reshapes the cornea to create a customised profile to correct vision for all distances. The flap is then replaced and the eye begins the natural healing process. It’s quick, painless, permanent and clinically proven to be 100% safe.

So if you wished you were like Marty McFly, living a life of mind-blowing time-slipping adventures, take yourself along to our Harley Street clinic and turn the future into the past – youthful precision vision with no glasses!