Treatments

What outcome can I expect after a laser eye surgery?

Our special Eagle Eye Treatment (Sasszemkezelés®) is capable of correcting hidden refractive errors which cannot be eliminated neither with the best glasses, contact lenses, nor with the conventional laser devices. After a laser eye surgery called Eagle Eye Treatment (Sasszemkezelés®) (PRK, FEMTO Presbyopia treatment, NO-Touch), you may have a sharper vision you have ever had before with glasses, for the rest of your life.

What to expect at the pre-operative examination?

What to expect during the examination?

• be prepared for a completely painless examination that takes 1.5-2 hours
• the most important parts of your examination are carried out by two specialists independently
• the refractive errors of your eyes will be measured with five different methods
• the expected outcome of your treatment will be presented to you in a personalised Medical Guarantee Certificate
• during the pre-operative examination, we will collect tens of thousands of data items that enable us to design the ideal treatment

How should you come to the examination?

• As you will receive pupil-dilating drops (mydriatics), after the examination, your vision will be blurred for even up to an entire day, thus it is advisable to come with a companion and/or arrive by public transport
• Please do not wear soft contact lenses for 4-5 days before the examination, semi-rigid and rigid lenses for at least 2 weeks in order to obtain accurate measurement results
• Ladies are recommended not to use any make-up, especially mascara
• You can eat and drink (non-alcoholic beverages) as usual before the examination
• Bring your national health insurance card with you so that we can prescribe you the necessary drugs
• Bring your previous eyesight reports and glasses with you

The pre-operative examination is discounted in case of online registration for people aged under 40 (in case of online application for patients above 40, it only costs HUF 20.000 instead of HUF 45.000). HUF 10 000 is included in the price of the treatment.

What happens on the day of the treatment?

What to expect on the day of your surgery?

• Prepare for a painless procedure which will take approximately 1.5-2 hours
• In the preoperative care unit, you will receive sedative pills and anaesthetic eye drops
• In the operating theatre, you will have nothing to do but to take up a comfortable position and to look ahead
• The PRK treatment takes 2-3 minutes, while the FEMTO treatmenttakes 8-10 minutes
• After the surgery, you will experience sharp vision immediately
• You can leave immediately or after a short rest with your companion, if you wish

How to come to your laser eye surgery?

• Bring a pair of sunglasses that provide 100% UV protection (your sunglasses’ ability to block UV rays can be verified at the clinic), or you can buy sunglasses from the clinic’s offer
• You must not wear soft contact lenses for 4-5 days, semi-rigid and rigid lenses for at least 3-4 weeks before the treatment
• Ask a friend to come and pick you up at the end of your surgery
• Bring with you the guarantee certificate provided to you during the pre-operative examination
• Eat as usual, however, avoid consuming alcohol and caffeine
• Ladies must avoid make-up (especially waterproof make-up) and perfumes
• Tell your physician about the drugs taken on the day of the surgery!
• If you have not chosen upfront payment, please bring with you the documents necessary for the selected payment plan and/or your surety

What should I pay attention to during the recovery period?

What are the most important medical instructions during the recovery time?

• Have a rest after the treatment (for 1 day after a FEMTO eye surgery and 5-6 days after a PRK eye surgery)
• Apply eye drops according to the instructions
• Keep away from dusty places or places with cigarette smoke during the first month
• Do not expose your eyes to water for a month (neither sauna, nor steam room is recommended)
• Do not wear make-up on your eyes for 2 weeks after a PRK treatment and for 4 weeks after a FEMTO treatment
• Do not rub your eyes during the months following the treatment
• The use of tanning beds must be strictly avoided for 3-6 months
• Outdoors, when the sun is shining, please wear sunglasses providing 100% protection from UV rays (for 2 months after a FEMTO laser eye surgery and for 6 months after a PRK laser eye surgery)
• Please show up at the required post-operative checks
• Should you have any questions, please call the Eagle Eye Clinic's 24/7 hotline at: +36 1 250 5505

Do you have to pay special attention to anything after the recovery?

After your recovery, you will not have to pay special attention to anything. Vaginal delivery is still possible after this treatment. All kinds of sports and physical effort can be done just like before. Antal Kovács (Olympic champion in judo), Botond Storcz (sprint canoeist) and Norbert Schobert (fitness guru) continued working out in the same way as they did prior to their laser eye surgery.

How safe is laser vision correction?

The outcome of your laser eye surgery (PRK treatment FEMTO laser eye surgery, Presbyopia treatment), NO-Touch PRK treatment) will bring radical changes to your life. Anyone who has only been able to achieve a moderate visual acuity with thick glasses or contact lenses, now will have a perfect vision without any of these devices. All this may be achieved with a painless procedure.

• A pre-operative examination provides the opportunity to exclude any factors that may negatively affect the outcome of your laser treatment
• The screening is carried out with one of the world’s most advanced ophthalmic instruments and is based on the experience gained by our ophthalmologists during tens of thousands of examinations
• Owing to the wavefront analysis, performed with an aberrometer (or ‘Eagle Eye Metre’, as nicknamed by our patients), hidden individual refractive errors can be precisely mapped, providing an excellent basis for designing safer, more accurate and personalised vision correction than in the case of conventional laser treatments
• Since we are striving for maximum security, our Clinic does not undertake any laser treatments if we are not sure that we can achieve an optimal outcome. The Eagle Eye Clinic is the only clinic in Hungary where patients are treated with three high-tech laser instruments
• As the Clinic’s staff has already performed hundreds of thousands of post-operative checks, it is hard to imagine individual reactions or problems which might be unknown to them
• The scientific partners of the Eagle Eye Clinic include Semmelweis University of Medicine and London Vision Clinic, a global leader in laser eye surgery and is managed by Professor Dan Reinstein, inventor of the LBV presbyopia treatment
• The world’s most stringent health and safety requirements are in place at the Eagle Eye Clinic

What kind of guarantee does the Eagle Eye Clinic offer?

Based on its professional experience of 29 years and more than 140.000 laser eye surgeries, the Eagle Eye Clinic is capable of predicting the expected outcome of a laser treatment with a very high degree of accuracy. After the pre-operative examination, you will experience the anticipated outcome (and you will also receive it in writing), provided that you react to the laser treatment as 99% of the patients.

But what if you fall into the remaining 1%? What if your cornea reacts abnormally to the treatment? What if the outcome is worse than what you had expected? Our guarantee applies to these cases. You do not even have to assume this 1% risk. If, after the laser treatment, the degree of your vision improvement is lower than what we had anticipated in writing, the guarantee will be applied. Here is a simple example: if your ophthalmologist had promised to improve your vision by 8 dioptres, but the final outcome is an improvement of only 7 dioptres, the Eagle Eye Clinic will repeat your laser treatment free of charge.