I gave a call to Optimax to ask about LASEK. During the conversation, I was led to believe that I will have to provide my own eyesight test for them to work off, whereas I was expecting that Optimax would do an eye test during the consultation, which would then be used to calibrate the Laser. The pre-surgery consultation was apparently to check if my eyes could biologically be able to withstand the surgery (i.e corneal thickness etc) not specifically to do an eye test. This sounds very odd to me. Do these people really expect and trust a third party opticians report to make potentially lifetime changes to their clients eyes??!! I backed straight away from making an appointment. I have sent an email to Optimax and haven’t received a reply in almost a week.



I am fully aware that they require an opticians test over a period of two years to see if my eye sight is stable, but this sounded downright odd.



Can someone confirm if this is true? – do they really use 3rd party eye tests to set their surgery up, rather than do it themselves, or was it simply a mis-communication (and subsequently a loss of communication via email)?