If the goal is great vision...

When a professional hockey club takes to the ice they may do so with a subtle advantage not evident to their on-ice opponents. Thanks to Laser Vision Correction (LVC), some members of the coaching staff perform without the contact lenses that had, for so many seasons before, been such a hindrance.

“I’m a guy that didn’t wear glasses enough,” says Randy Lee, a former strength and conditioning coach who was recently promoted to director of player development for a professional hockey club. “But I did need them for certain things,” he says, referring to scouting and working out.

These days, glasses are a distant memory. Lee’s vision soared from 20/70 pre-op to an enviable 20/15 after his LVC procedure at Focus. “For me it’s just complete freedom,” he says. Read the full story...

Miracle Off Ice

Chris and Caitlin Neil sit down to discuss Intralase SBK results (“perfect”) and their confidence in Focus Eye.

Recently, the professional hockey right winger accompanied his wife Caitlin to her consultations at Focus Eye in advance of her Intralase SBK procedure and had nothing but positive things to say about the process, as well as the anticipated outcome. “I was definitely confident that she would be fine the next day,” says Chris. “I knew after the consultation that everything would be fine.” Read the full story...

20/20 Vision for 2010:
Paralympian Sees Clearly
My name is Todd Nicholson. It has been my great privilege and honour to represent Canada for over twenty years as a paralympian. I first heard about the different options for laser vision correction a couple of years ago, but, it was only five months ago that I finally made the call. Focus offered a new procedure called Intralase SBK and this procedure has changed my life. Read more ...

Intralase SBK:
Same Safety, Faster Results

Laser Vision Correction with recovery in HOURS, not days!
Patients and staff members alike love the new procedure at Focus....” Read David Harrison's complete article in InFocus

What Intralase SBK Patients Say:
"The morning after surgery I went out for breakfast and did some shopping"
"The next morning, after Wavefront SBK, I was able to read my morning newspaper"
"Within 24 hours I was absolutely fully functional."

Wavefront Technology
Wavefront is a diagnostic technique that produces a computer-generated three-dimensional image — a Wavefront map
— of the eye, to ensure a customized, personalized treatment for each patient.This results in even better outcomes than before produce outstanding results for LVC patients. Read more...

The $10,000 Pair of Glasses
(TRICK) QUESTION: When is Laser Vision Correction less expensive than buying glasses and contact lenses?
ANSWER: Always.

A cup of coffee and a muffin costs about $5, right? The answer is yes and no, at least when you take into consideration the effect of Cost Creep, as it could be called. Cost Creep is the price that something costs over time. In the coffee-and-a-muffin example it looks like this: a medium coffee and muffin at Second Cup or Starbucks is about $5. If you fork over $5 every weekday for a year that mid-morning snack turns into a $1300-a-year habit.

It’s a truly insidious process when a small expenditure is magnified over time until a once-small bill becomes downright massive. It’s how credit card companies make their millions (interest payments being what they are). And it’s how the cost of wearing glasses or contacts will, over time, amount to much more than the one-time price of a quality Laser Vision Correction (LVC) procedure carried out by an experienced and attentive surgeon.

Just look at the dollar-cost breakdown of glasses and contacts versus undergoing LVC. A new pair of glasses and contact lens/solution can cost about $500 per year. Over 20 years that’s a total expenditure of $10,000. Even after paying for the best and safest LVC procedure available — namely, Intralase SBK — a person saves about $240 a year over those same 20 years when the creeping cost of buying new frames and lenses and solutions is taken out of the equation.