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 tools exist for that: to situate your own profile, to keep watch on your central vision, 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.
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
Budget
Contact lenses or surgery: the break-even point
From which year does an operation cost less than your contact lenses and your glasses? The calculation starts from your real spending, with your insurance allowance deducted, and it also says when the answer is no.
Run the calculation
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
Self-monitoring
Amsler grid
A grid calibrated to the real size of your screen, to monitor your central vision one eye at a time. Useful in AMD, diabetic retinopathy or high myopia.
Take the test
Health insurance
Quote for your health insurance
A personal surgeon’s fee quote in PDF for LASIK, PRK, SMILE or PresbyLASIK, based on the published fees, to send to your health insurer to find out its contribution.
Get my quote