Laser Eye Surgery - also known as LASIK - is for people with poor eyesight who don't want to wear glasses or contact lenses. It can cost as much as €2500 per eye.

Laser Eye Surgery is used to reshape the cornea to treat three different types of visual impairment.
Short sightedness - that's difficulty seeing anything clearly unless it very close.
Long sightedness - where the person has good middle and distance vision, but can't focus on things close up and
Astigmatism - where a slightly misshapen eyeball leads to blurring.

Your opticians prescription should have two figures in it, separated by a forward slash. The first figure is a plus if you're long sighted, a minus if you're short sighted, the second figure after the forward slash is the amount of astigmatism you've got.

What actually happens to the patient when they're having laser eye surgery?
When you are having the procedure done the first thing that happens is your eye is numbed with drops and that takes all the sensation away from the corneal surface - you can feel things like warm and cold and fluid running over the eye but no pain.
Then little sticky plastic drapes are applied to keep the eyelashes out of the way and keep the area clean and a little retainer is put in to prevent any problems with blinking during the operation. After that - what you see as the patient- is a blinking red light in front of you, which guides you - your gaze in the right direction and a laser tracker is engaged that follows little eye movements around.
When the laser treatment is delivered, you hear a loud tapping noise from the laser when it's being delivered and typically it would last up to a minute, depending on how much correction needs to be done. And then after that you feel some more touching around the eyes, more fluid on the surface and the operation is done.