I visited this clinic and thank God I did as Dan saved me from the archaic techniques at LCRS. I was very impressed with the technology and Dan is very charismatic. However, I opted to not have Lasik. If my eyes were worse than they are, perhaps my decision would have been different, and then I would recommend LVC. I do have 20:20 now though, and without surgery or glasses!

I have since been to eye-spy.co.uk who offer Ortho-K. This is like a retainer for the eye in the form of a gas permeable lens. You wear it at night and all day long I experience 20:20 vision. It worked from the first night with me experiencing 12 hours 20:20 (and 100% vision quality) on the very next day. There is no problem with hating wearing lenses as I am asleep and pop them out when I wake up. The lenses cannot get lost in your sleep as the eyelid creates a sack. It works by minutely flattening the cornea. The benefits are that my corneas are not subjected to weakening surgery, and it completely halts regression. If I stop wearing the lenses then my eyes return to -2.75 as they are today with no further regression.

This is not a new treatment and is less popular because it suits only up to -4.5 with low astigmatism and it has only been recently that the topographers were good enough to make these lenses bespoke and successful. It is also not highly profitable so not surprisingly not many eye specialists are interested in it! It costs £800 or thereabouts at Eye-Spy (the only guys I found in the UK using BE bespoke lenses). www.eye-spy.co.uk

If my eyes were worse, as I said, I would be strongly tempted by Dan's clinic. However, current Lasik has simply not been around long enough to guarantee my sight when I'm old. I am not willing to be a sheep and follow everyone else merely because money has caused eye surgery to become a giant human guinea-pig test. It isn't until new techniques come about that the truth of the failings of the old techniques are fully outed.

Also, cutting the flap may well adversely effect my nerve endings that tell my brain when my eye is dry - a particular problem for women as they get older is dry eye. Finally, I am not happy about the fact that the flap is replaced onto non-homogenous cornea as it sits flatter and that the cornea never truly reseals below the surface layers. Finally, what really bites is that your eyes will continue on their path and 10 years on I may need those flaps opened again. How traumatic for my poor eyes! O-K is not a forget about your eyes solution as Lasik temporarily offers, but it stops regression and is fully reversible in effect.

Check out http://www.ortho-k.net/ and the FDA website if you're interested in OK lenses, and your myopia is within the range - they work and are 100% reversible. Dan promotes knowledge dispelling fear, and as such I'm sure would welcome his potential patients to look into this as a safer alternative, before opting for Lasik.

So glad sites like this exist.