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Why choose Optilase?

Welcome to Optilase, Ireland’s leading eye clinic. We are an Irish-owned company and were one of the first private clinics established in Ireland. At Optilase, we offer a comprehensive range of treatments using the world’s most advanced technology.

Our World Leading Consultant Ophthalmic Surgeons have carried out in excess of 40,000 procedures. The combined expertise and experience of our staff allows us the confidence to offer a Lifetime Care Guarantee as standard with all of our treatments.

At Optilase, we believe that the laser vision correction process should revolve around the patient. Our focus is on trust, reliability, quality and care.

With locations nationwide, our state-of-the-art clinics are conveniently situated within easy access of all major transport links. Uniquely, we operate flexible opening hours including weekends and late evenings, allowing us to build your consultation, surgery and after care around your busy schedule.

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1. Initial Free Consultation

• You will meet with your Laser Optometrist who will assess your suitability for laser eye surgery

• Your Laser Optometrist will thoroughly explain the procedure and answer any questions you may have

• The assessment will take approximately 1 hour and can be arranged for a time convenient to you

• If deemed suitable, a pre-operative consultation with your Surgeon will be booked

2. Consultation with your Surgeon

• Your Surgeon will carry out further eye examinations, give final approval for surgery and answer any additional questions you may have

3. The Day of your Treatment

• You will be in the care of our surgery team, including your Consultant Ophthalmic Surgeon, Surgery Nurses, Laser Technician and Support Staff

• We ask you to bring a friend or family member to accompany you

• The treatment takes approximately 7 minutes per eye

• After treatment, you will relax while our Nurses explain our aftercare programme

4. Post-Operative Care and Lifetime Care Guarantee

• As part of our continued commitment to your care, we provide you with a comprehensive aftercare programme for a year after your treatment

• After you are discharged from our aftercare programme you should require no further visits however our doors are always open and you are welcome to visit us any time for further check-ups or if you have any concerns or questions

Laser Eye Surgery Journey


Our World Leading Technology

Advanced CustomVue WaveFrontAt Optilase, we believe in providing you with the world’s most advanced technology. We offer two types of procedures: Standard and Advanced CustomVue WaveFront.

What is Advanced CustomVue WaveFront?Just like a fingerprint, your vision is unique to you. Advanced CustomVue WaveFront corrects vision according to the individual imperfections of your eyes. This means that each laser treatment is specific to you.

This technology was originally developed for use in high powered telescopes to reduce distortions when viewing distant objects in space.

Benefits of Advanced CustomVue WaveFront

• Results in measure ments 25 times more precise than stand ard treatments

• Corrects vision according to the individual imperfections of your eyes

• Broadest FDA-approved, customised WaveFront-guided treatments available today for individuals with myopia and hyperopia with or without astigmatism

Advanced CustomVue WaveFront uses an exceptionally advanced scanner called the WaveScan which generates an accurate map of how light passes through the eye. This map, and the measurements obtained are 25 times more accurate than measurements obtained during a routine sight test. It provides measurements of your prescription but also the natural imperfections unique to each of your eyes.

These imperfections have a significant impact on vision and have been linked to glare and halos, particularly at night-time. Benefits of this technology include better quality night vision than previously possible. In fact, since WaveFront technology allows us to correct individual imperfections, it has the potential to correct vision to an even better level than possible with glasses or contact lenses.



What is IntraLase?The IntraLase method is the most advanced and ac curate manner in which to create the flap during your LASIK procedure. This blade-free method uses Femtosecond (quadrillionth of a second) pulses of laser to cre ate the flap. The IntraLase method delivers outstanding results and it has been shown to improve outcomes for more patients.

Benefits of Intralase

• Blade-free treatment that delivers superior results and accuracy

• Faster healing and recov ery rates than the traditional microkerato me procedure

• Improves precision and out comes of LASIK

• Reduces flap related complications and induced higher order aberrations

Is it right for me?IntraLase delivers outstanding results. It has been shown to improve outcomes for more patients. Patients generally experience faster recovery, fewer LASIK flap-related complications and fewer induced higher order aberrations (which may contribute to visual disturbances such as glare and halos, particularly at night time).



iDesign WaveScan TechnologyEach person’s eyes are completely unique; just like a fingerprint. For this reason, there is no ‘one size fits all’ approach to Laser Eye Surgery at Optilase; instead, each eye is carefully mapped and a treatment plan developed so the surgeon can work with the individual characteristics of each eye.

Mapping the eye and gathering measurements and data has been made even more effective with the advent of the iDesign machine; an advanced system that allows optimal treatment.

The iDesign machine works by incorporating several different types of measurements into an eye scan: wavefront aberrometry, new-technology corneal

topography, autorefractometry, keratometry and pupillometry.

iDesign offers outstanding accuracy, and ability to measure tiny details of the eyes. It’s a highly specialised piece of equipment to garner even better results and increase the precision of laser eye surgery.

iDesign can capture information about your eye prescription at over 1200 separate points on the cornea; the outer part of the eye.

Using this information, the ophthalmic surgeon can then make a precision treatment plan to address

even the tiniest of imperfections of the eye. It’s a completely customised treatment and allows incredibly accurate measurements at the click of a button.

The information captured makes a meticulous blueprint of your eye; is transferred into the computer guided laser and the identified imperfections can then be accurately corrected.

iDesign is ideal for treating complex and high prescriptions as it provides so much data about the eye, for the best possible results.


LASIKLASIK (Laser Assisted In-Situ Keratomileusis) or IK for short, is the most frequently performed laser procedure in the world.

The key benefits of the LASIK procedure are a rapid recovery time, usually within 48 hours and little or no post operative discomfort.

Anaesthetic drops are applied, which have the effect of numbing your eye.

A small flap is created on the surface of the cornea using IntraLase technology.

The laser is then applied to the underlying surface to reshape your cornea and correct your prescription.

Your Surgeon then places the flap back down and your eye begins to heal.

LASEK / PRKLASEK (Laser-Assisted Sub-Epithelial Keratectomy) or PRK (Photorefractive keratectomy) is a well established method of preparing the surface of the eye for laser eye surgery in patients for whom LASIK is not recommended. The decision as to which procedure is best for you will be made in consultation with your Laser Optometrist and Consultant Ophthalmic Surgeon.

Anaesthetic drops are applied, which have the effect of numbing your eye.

The surface layer of cells (Epithelium) of your eye is softened using an Ethanol solution and gently moved aside.

The laser is then applied to the underlying surface to reshape your cornea and correct your prescription. A contact lens is put in place over your cornea for a period of five days to provide comfort and protection to the surface as it heals.

How is the treatment performed?


At Optilase, our outstanding clinical results give us the confidence to offer a Lifetime Care Guarantee. This means that in the event that you experience regression, we will cover the cost of any further treatments for free, for life.

Our Lifetime Care Guarantee is part of our ongoing commitment to your care and visual outcome.

Optilase Lifetime Care Guarantee


Earn €100 in cash for recommending us to a friend. More patients than ever are taking advantage of the Optilase Referral Scheme, with which you can earn thousands of euros simply by sharing the benefits of laser eye surgery with your friends, family and colleagues.

• Share the life changing benefits of having laser eye surgery

• Earn back the cost of your treatment

• Help your family, friends and colleagues make a more informed decision

Refer a friend ora family member

and receive

€100You receive €100 cash for every friend that has treatment

Optilase Referral Scheme


Optilase is Ireland’s leading provider of laser eye treatments. We are pleased to partner with similar leading companies to offer their employees a special discount off the cost of laser vision correction.

How the program works?Simply contact us on 1890 301 302 or email us at [email protected] to book your free assessment. You will need to show us that you are employed at one of our registered Optilase Corporate Scheme companies. We will then apply the discount to the cost of your treatment.

Price/SavingsEmployees can benefit from a discount of 10% off the full cost of any treatment. We offer the most advanced, clinically proven treatments in the world all at affordable prices.

How to join?If you are a business owner or are responsible for the HR in your company, please contact us to register your company and to discuss the benefits your employees and colleagues will gain from our Corporate Affiliation Scheme.

Optilase Corporate Scheme


At Optilase, we believe that sight is a basic human right and that everyone – including those in the world’s poorest countries, should have access to the treatment and eye care that they need to enable them to see.

Sightsavers works tirelessly to help cure people who have reversible eye conditions as well as prevent people from becoming needlessly blind.

On April 1st 2011, Optilase signed a partnership agreement with Sightsavers, whereby Optilase will contribute funds and expertise to Sightsavers for three years, specifically to help Sightsavers construct an eye department at Nampula Central Hospital in Nampula, Mozambique and to help train their local eye care experts and volunteers.

How can you get involved?We are keen to do our part and we are encouraging people to get behind the Sightsavers initiative. You can do that by donating in any of our clinics or logging onto www.sightsavers.ie.

For more information on the Sightsavers partnership, you can email [email protected].

Optilase and Sightsavers Partnership


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1. Optilase Dublin Tel: 1890 301 302 Address: 19 Ely Place, Dublin 2 Email: [email protected]

2. Optilase Waterford Tel: 1890 301 302 Address: 31 Barronstrand Street Email: [email protected]

3. Optilase Cork Tel: 1890 301 302 Address: 17B Opera Lane Email: [email protected]

4. Optilase Limerick Tel: 1890 301 302 Address: 32A Cruises Street Email: [email protected]

5. Optilase Athlone Tel: 1890 301 302 Address: 4 Fairview Terrace, Garden Vale Email: [email protected]

6. Optilase Galway Tel: 1890 301 302 Address: Shop Street Email: [email protected]

7. Optilase Kildare Tel: 1890 301 302 Address: 4 Edward Street, Newbridge Email: [email protected]

8. Optilase Sligo Tel: 1890 301 302 Address: 40 O’Connell Street Email: [email protected]

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Why choose Optilase?€¦ · LASIK LASIK (Laser Assisted In-Situ Keratomileusis) or IK for short, is the most frequently performed laser procedure in the world. The key benefits of