Surgeons offer eyesight tailored to an individual’s life and career

Personally, I’m too chicken to have eye laser surgery to correct my vision, let alone have surgery so I can have night vision in one eye and the ability to see like a hawk in the other.

I’ve heard of various bad side effects from laser surgery. I’m content wearing my glasses to gain 20-20 vision. Don’t let that stop you though.

Check this article out:

By Will Pavia & Tim Glanfield

There are sportswear firms offering bespoke trainers and funeral companies that sell personalized coffins, but this latest extension of Saville Row principles may shock even the staunchest devotees of mass customization.

Laser eye surgeons are now offering tailor-made corneas. Two decades after the first laser eye treatment in Britain, in November 1989, the quest for perfect vision has been replaced, in many cases, by eyesight tailored to an individual’s life and career.

Would sir like night vision? Does he require the eyes of a hawk? Or one eye customized to see into the distance, the other for reading? Such questions are now the stuff of client consultations in leading eye clinics. Click here to read the rest at TimesOnline.

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