I went to Advance Vision Damansara today, thinking bout doing refractive surgery. Im 26 and my power is approx -2.75 on both eye. Corneal thickness is approx 580 on both eye. Been using contacts and glasses before this. Hoping to be free of visual aid.

Went to advance vision last year for their part 1 eye checkup but didnt proceed with surgery as was going oversea for study. Fast forward 12 month after, went to do another part 1 checkup, which didnt show much changes in parameters. I also did the part 2 exam with Dr Yeoh Phee Liang. He did 2-4 min eye check which i believe is a slit lamp and then check using a magnifying glass and directly looking at my eye as he instructed me to look at directions. After that he says im a good candidate for the surgery.

The only new thing in advance vision is that they no longer do LASIK surgery as they previously did when i came here last year and currently only offers TransPRK surgery using Scwind Amaris 1050S. Both eye for rm2988. Check few blog website shows that this machine is the most advance for transprk (as for 2017 entry in blog). I understand transprk takes longer time to heal but i dont really mind that coz no commitment at the moment.
Ive check background for Dr. Yeoh. Graduated dublin 1994, specialist FRCSE dublin 2001 (no speciality mentioned in NSR recorda). Seems like a nice guy. Does seem a bit rush doing exam with minimal explanation to patients unless asked.

Im sorta keen on doing it. But still on fence. Theres a few blogs saying their positive experience which mostly was for LASIK in this centre. I havent found anyone complaining about the centre nor Dr.Yeoh yet and this thread have minimal discussion for this centre. Does anyone got any suggestion/view?

Eye check result for reference both 2017 and 2018

This post has been edited by sandwraith92: Dec 17 2018, 03:20 PM

I did my trans prk here exactly 4 weeks ago. Advance vision no longer offer lasik nowadays, only trans prk. My recovery was steady even though week 2 i got viral conjuctivitis, week 4 i got bout 3mm corneal abrasion. This is just me being unlucky. My previous power was -2.75

Heres my experience. Operation itself was about 10 minutes. During operation need to look steady the green blinking light. I find it annoying because it was blinking as when its gone i cant find the green light to focus. I did move my during surgery and the dr warned me 3x to refocus my vision. Felt bad bout this so post op did some googling, fortunately the machine scans eye position 1050 times per second and compensate beam accordingly. Postop night, i need to take the tramadol coz too lazy to deal with pain/discomfort. Day 1 post op theres like 1 gritty sand stuck on my eye, very annoying but next day fortunately no more gritty sensation.

Initially my left eyes always more blurry than my right eye, then theres a phase where there fluctuations where one day its good the next day its blurry. Then theres a phase where unless you use eye drops u get blurry vision. Was able to drive bout 1 week post op.

At 1 month post op i would say i can see bout 80-90% with no halos and minor starburst. I would highly recommend

This post has been edited by sandwraith92: Feb 8 2019, 08:52 AM