I had LASIK surgery on 11th March 2005 at Optical Express in Amsterdam with Mr. Aziz's Team and I couldn't be more pleased with my new vision ! It was a birthday present to myself (born in 1970) and after 20 years of wearing glasses / contactlenses with over the past 5 years having a stablized vision of -7,00D on the right eye and -7,25D on the left eye, it is like a miracle for me not to need contacts any more. Never had real problems with wearing (one-day) contacts every day, but this is so much better ! Still can not believe that it is real and that I don't have to put my lenses in to see anything in the morning. Sometimes just close my eyes to open them right afterwards and recognize that I still have "Adler-Augen" as this free vision seems so unbelievable and amazing to me. Directly after surgery I already was able to read the subtitles on the TV screen at the reception of Optical Express, but strictly followed the advise to close my eyes for the next couple of hours and rest. Undergoing surgery was itself of course a bit exciting, but during the LASIK procedure the worse discomfort was the pressure on the eyes when they created the flap, which took only seconds. The laser treatment afterwards took exacly 55 seconds on each eye and the nurse Leslie was so kind to hold all the time my hand (Thank you !), which relaxed me a lot. After surgery my eyes felt uncomfortable (burning) and I cried a lot of tears for about 1 hour, but that was all. Next day for the check-up proved what I already thought: Vision was better than ever, I could even read the 1.5 line below which was "extremely good" according to Alain, my Optometrist all way through. As I have no doubt that this is stable (will have the 1-week after care check up on Friday, 18th March) I already recommended this clinic to my brother who wants to do it in April if he is suitable. I really can recommend it to everyone who is suitable, it makes such a difference ! So thanks to all of this great team and a special thanks to Sonja who got me an appointment on short notice in the eye clinic in Amsterdam, which was necessary because the first LASIK appointments was already on Tuesday last week, but Mr. Aziz prefered to get another opinion due to bit of weakness in the Retina. Luckily after all nothing to have been worried about, just a prove of the excellent experience and treatment by Mr. Aziz before surgery.