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Charl Laäs Optometrists is a privately owned Optometric practice providing a complete range of eye care services for the whole family. 

All our clients receive comprehensive 60 minute Eye examinations at every visit and we have a particular interest in complex and unusual cases for which we provide additional services like:

At Charl Laäs Optometrists it is our passion to provide you with professional service and quality products in a friendly and personal environment.

Latest Eye Care Blogs

  • A piggyback system is where a soft contact lens is placed on the irregular cornea for comfort and on top of the soft lens a rigid gas permeable lens is placed to provide clear undistorted vision
    Fitting Keratoconus Keratoconus is a bilateral non-inflammatory corneal ectasia with an incidence of approximately 1 per 2,000 in the general population (1). The treatment of Keratoconus can be implemented by the use of spectacle lenses, contact lenses of various kinds and surgery. In more advance Keratoconus cases where severe irregular astigmatism with resultant higher order aberrations are present, the use of Rigid Gas Permeable (RGP) lenses are indicated to restore the patients vision.  Unfortunately in some Keratoconus cases, contact lens intolerance develops and many patients consider Penetrating Keratoplasty (cornel graft). Lim, et al found that 8...
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  • Christmas

    From everyone at Charl Laäs Optometrist we want to wish all our patients, clients, suppliers, friends and family a very blessed Christmas season.  May it be a period of rest, peace, love and family closeness.

    We want to thank everyone who made 2011 a wonderful year for us all and hope that 2012 may bring you good health, fulfilment and joy.

    Warmest regards

    Charl, Basil, Johann, Nick, Ina-Marie, Jean, Ilse and Adre

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  • Irregular corneal topography due to eye rubbing
    “Don’t rub your eyes!” your mother used to say. “It’s not good for your you”. But then who ever listened to their mother? It seems that in recent years, science have caught up with our mothers’ wisdom and a number of research papers are now clearly proving that rubbing your eyes can in fact damage your eye’s corneal health. In our own practice we have seen many cases of keratoconus and healthy corneas distorted due to vigorous rubbing of the eye. The picture below shows the topography of an otherwise normal cornea that is chronically rubbed at the 6 o’clock position. The patient had best corrected vision of about 6/75 (20/25) at the time. Once her allergies wer...
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  • Ophthalmic surgeon performing LASIK refractive surgery
    In recent months LASIK refractive surgery providers in the United States came under fire from the US Food and Drug Administration. The concern is not related to the safety aspect of LASIK but rather to the incorrect perception LASIK advertising is creating in the US and internationally. If one takes into account the new Consumer Protection Act, South Africa adopted this year it is also very relevant to the South Africanmedical refractive surgery fraternity. Recently, Denise Mann wrote the following article for Health Day highlighting the matter: Agency giving practitioners 90 days to curtail inflated promises, missing safety info in ads The U.S. Food and Drug...
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  • Trend Micro
    Image via Wikipedia On November 8, a long-living botnet of more than 4,000,000 bots was taken down by the FBI and Estonian police in cooperation with Trend Micro, a leading Internet content security and threat management solutions company and a number of other industry partners. In this operation, dubbed “Operation Ghost Click” by the FBI, two data centres in New York City and Chicago were raided and a command & control (C&C) infrastructure consisting of more than 100 servers was taken offline. At the same time the Estonian police arrested several members in Tartu, Estonia. According to an FBI press release, Rove Digital founder Vladimir Tsastsin ...
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    A new sensation of lightness on the mountains TERREXTM FAST outdoor eyewear from adidas eyewear   Maximum function and minimum weight. The sports eyewear specialist adidas eyewear is extending its successful TERREXTM range with a lightweight and narrowly shaped outdoor model, bringing optimal vision within the reach of extreme mountaineers and speed hikers, as well as those with a more leisurely approach to mountaineering. The TERREXTM FAST is distinguished by its light weight, modern design, simple handling and first-class function - for ultimate peak experiences. Light and fast. These are key requirements for today's outdoor equipment. With the T...
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