Understand before you decide

Tools and resources to understand your eyesight

A consultation lasts twenty minutes; the decision to have surgery takes far longer to mature. These five tools exist for that: to situate your own profile, to see concretely what a correction changes, to make sense of the vocabulary on a medical report. They are free, require no sign-up, and you can come back to them as often as you need.

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  • Self-assessment

    Am I a candidate?

    A few questions about your age, your prescription and your medical history, to situate your profile against LASIK, PRK, SMILE and the ICL phakic implant.

    Take the test

  • Simulator

    Vision simulator

    What does a scene look like to a short-sighted, long-sighted, astigmatic or presbyopic eye? Move the slider and watch what a correction changes.

    Open the simulator

  • Simulator

    Cataract implant simulator

    Monofocal, toric, multifocal, EDOF: compare what each type of implant offers at distance, at arm’s length and up close, before discussing it in consultation.

    Compare the implants

  • Anatomy

    Educational diagrams

    The anatomy of the eye and the course of each procedure, explained through annotated diagrams, step by step.

    View the diagrams

  • Vocabulary

    Ophthalmology glossary

    The words heard in consultation or read on a report, each defined in a single sentence and linked to a full article.

    Open the glossary

These tools are aids to understanding. They are neither a diagnosis nor medical advice, and they do not replace the clinical examination and pre-operative assessment carried out in consultation. Only that examination can establish whether surgery is an option in your case, and which one.