Optilase, Ireland’s leading laser eye surgery provider will open a clinic on Shop Street in Galway, at the same premises of sister company, the prestigious Therapie Clinic. The Galway Optilase clinic will be available from next Thursday, 17th November headed up by experienced Laser Optometrist Garry Kidson, FAOI.

Optilase was the first independent laser eye clinic in Ireland. The 100% Irish owned company is a major success story, opening 3 new clinics in the past year, optimistically bucking the recessional trend and investing in the economy. The opening of the Galway clinic will mean 4 new jobs for Galway.

Laser Optometrist Gary Kidson, FAOI commented:

“I am delighted to be taking Optilase to Galway and offering access to the best Laser Ophthalmic Surgeons and Laser Ophthalmologists in the country. We are more than happy to offer patients the opportunity of a free assessment for laser eye surgery. It’s an incredibly successful and surprisingly straight forward procedure that quite literally changes people’s lives”.

With prices from only €495 per eye, free consultations, a price match-guarantee as well as a life-time care guarantee, it is no surprise they enjoy a 99% referral rate. In addition, their experienced team of surgeons has carried out over 40,000 laser eye surgery procedures, and are leaders in their field, in Ireland, Europe and Worldwide.

Laser eye surgery was first introduced in the 1970s and is now one of the most advanced and commonly performed elective surgeries worldwide, having helped to improve the vision and lifestyles of over 30 million people worldwide.

To arrange a free consultation or for further information phone: 1890 301 302 or email info@optilase.com or visit: www.optilase.com.

Optilase Clinic has partnered with local business, Supersavers Opticians, at Grafton Court, Longford, giving the people of Longford and its surrounds access to laser eye surgery at Optilase Clinic’s flagship, state-of-art clinic in Dublin. The Longford Optilase clinic will be available from Tuesday, 15th November headed up by Optometrist Stephen Olwell, FAOI.

Optilase was the first independent laser eye clinic in Ireland and currently has state-of-the art clinics in Dublin, Cork, Waterford, Belfast, Derry and now Longford. The company is a major success story, opening 3 new clinics in the past year, optimistically bucking the recessional trend and investing in the economy. (more…)

Health & Beauty
Posted on 25/08/2011
by Christine Allen

Having worn contact lenses and glasses for over 18 years, Munster rugby player, Doug Howlett, says laser eye surgery has changed his life. He tells Christine Allen what life was like before and after surgery at Optilase Clinic in Cork Doug Howlett began wearing spectacles at a young age as he suffered short sightedness. He says his emergence into the world of professional sport was always tainted because of his sight problems and his game was always tinged with anxiety about his contact lenses.

“It was really difficult at times, my contact lenses would be loose. I play a full contact sport, I could easily get a finger into the eye.”
He says he once played a game with only one contact lense in. “The other had fallen out and was lost. I played the game with one eye closed, in a bid to focus my other eye. It was terrible,” he explains.

He also needed glasses to drive and says his first moments in the morning involved wrestling with contact lenses.
“It became the norm – I’d wash my face and try put my contacts in.” (more…)