Optical Express

I wish my son would read these reviews!!! He wanted some new glasses so I told him to use our local, trusted, optician but no, he had to go to one of these trendier, faster places in town. SIGHT TEST First of all he had a sight test and when the optician handed him the print out of his prescription my son mentioned that it was vastly different from his current one. They assured him it was right and said his glasses would be ready for collection the following day and they would ring him. COLLECTION After a couple of days, with no phone calls (despite having left 2 numbers with them) he called in and spoke to a different ...  Read the complete review

I had the Lasik procedure done at the wellington road clinic with surgeon Mr. Steffan Klopper on 11-08-2007 and i am more than happy with the result. It is a painless procedure although when the surgeon is making the flap in the cornea, it is a little uncomfortable but definetly nothing to worry about or to put you off and the only reason i'm mentioning it is because there is a little pressure on your eye and i wasn't expecting it. For 3-4 hours after the surgery my eye's felt a little heavy (not suprisingly) but hour by hour they were getting back to normality and by 24hrs i felt fine although they say the healing proccess is different for ...  Read the complete review

Here is my story.I went to Optical Express (Dublin,Wellington rd)in mid February 2008. I had free consultation there.I felt pushing towards more expencive way of surgery. I was in doubt of my eye health situation,but they were trying very hard to convince me for this surgery. I just felt that something wrong with that clinic. However I left deposit and booked surgery (day and time). After 4 days I changed my mind because I felt that Optical Express is not right clinic for this surgery. I also made a lot of searching in internet and most reviews were about having bad experience with Optical Express. So I chaged my mind and now I know that It was very very good ...  Read the complete review

I attended the Optical Express Wellington Road Clinic and had Wavefront Lasik surgery last week My experience from start to finish was superb. The staff and surgeon were kind caring and efficient and explained every aspect of the treatment and follow up in detail. I have read comments concerning strong selling etc however my experience was that my well being was their priority. The benefits of each treatment were explained by the optomerist and whilst the waveform lasik treatment was more expensive I took the view that the cost differential between wavefront and standard treatment was not significant over a lifetime. I also took the view that I did not want ...  Read the complete review

I am writing this from the perspective of someone who had Lasik 3 years ago now as I feel that it is good to hear from people who had it done a while ago! I had my Lasik done at Optical Express in Southampton, with my consultations at Torquay. It cost £1200 for me which I paid in monthly instalments with a £200 deposit. I wore contact lenses for short-sightedness and had a low prescription of -1.5. At first I was a bit perturbed that the clinic and consultation centre were in shopping centres, it seemed a bit weird that a medical procedure should be carried out in those sorts of environments! It made it seem a bit 'cheapy' but I am pleased to say that it ...  Read the complete review