Laser vision correction in Cairo: without the London price tag.

No. The procedure uses anesthetic eye drops. You may feel a few seconds of pressure during the suction step, but no sharp pain. Most patients describe it as 'less uncomfortable than a dental cleaning'.

The laser itself is typically under 60 seconds per eye. The full visit takes 60-90 minutes. With Femto LASIK or SMILE you'll see clearly within 24 hours and return to a desk job the next day. PRK has a 3-7 day visual recovery.

Success here means reaching the target uncorrected vision. The honest benchmark is the published one, not ours: across 97 studies and 67,893 eyes, 99.5% of LASIK eyes had uncorrected distance vision better than 20/40 and 1.2% of patients were dissatisfied (Sandoval et al., J Cataract Refract Surg 2016;42(8):1224-1234, PMID 27531300). Those are pooled figures from the world literature, not from this clinic's own patients. Your own result depends on your prescription, astigmatism and corneal thickness, and 20/20 without glasses is the goal, not a guarantee.

Lower clinic operating costs and currency advantages, not lower clinical standards. We use the same Zeiss / Schwind / Wavelight lasers and the same single-use sterile kits as European centers. The savings come from the operating environment, not the surgery itself.

Most healthy adults aged 18+ with stable refraction for at least 12 months are candidates. We screen with full topography, pachymetry, and posterior-segment evaluation. If LASIK isn't safe for your cornea, we will recommend ICL, PRK, or SMILE, whichever is right for your eyes.

In most cases the result is permanent. A small drift can appear over 5-10 years, usually from natural age-related changes in your own lens rather than from the laser. A simple enhancement can correct minor regression provided your cornea has enough thickness left. Separately, LASIK corrects distance vision only and does not prevent presbyopia, the natural, age-related loss of near focus that makes reading harder after the mid-40s for almost everyone, including people who have already had LASIK.Presbyopia and reading vision options

SMILE Pro is flapless, a small lenticule is removed through a 2-4 mm incision. Less dry eye risk and stronger biomechanical preservation. LASIK uses a corneal flap and offers slightly faster vision recovery and a wider treatment range. Both are FDA-approved gold-standard techniques.Full SMILE Pro details

Yes. Prior refractive surgery does not rule out a future corneal transplant. This is a co-authored research paper Dr. Ahmed Shaarawy contributed to, published as a poster at the AAO 2014 Annual Meeting (Terry MA, Straiko MD, Veldman PB, Alshaarawy AM [Dr. Ahmed Shaarawy], Mayko Z, Poster #30039964): DMEK is feasible and beneficial in eyes with prior LASIK or radial keratotomy. That is a conference poster rather than a peer-reviewed article, so it carries no journal, volume, pages or PMID and no figure from it is quoted here. The takeaway for current LASIK patients: should you ever develop endothelial disease (Fuchs dystrophy, post-cataract corneal edema, etc.) decades later, lamellar transplantation, DMEK or DSAEK, remains a sound option.