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Costs of ophthalmology procedures
Procedures | Prices |
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Botox injections | $180 - $650 |
Laser eye surgery | $700 - $11100 |
LASIK eye surgery | $600 - $13000 |
Cataract surgery with IOL replacement | $450 - $6400 |
ReLEx SMILE eye surgery | $800 - $5350 |
Strabismus surgery | $370 - $10000 |
Vitrectomy | $330 - $8700 |
Cataract surgery (one eye) | $190 - $6850 |
LASEK eye surgery | $700 - $2500 |
Cataract Surgery with Multifocal Lens Implant | $800 - $5650 |
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Veni Vidi Eye Clinics is a private single-specialty medical center located in Istanbul, Turkey. The team is specialized in ophthalmology. Veni Vidi Eye Clinics serves both adults and children. 50,000 patients choose Veni Vidi Eye Clinics to get medical care every year. Patients from CIS, Europe, and Asia visit the clinic most often.
Location: Caddebostan, Bağdat Cd. No:257, 34728 Kadıköy/İstanbul, TurkeyIOLs implantation | $2165 - $4872 |
Botox injections | $324 - $649 |
Cataract surgery (one eye) | $2165 - $4872 |
Online Consultation with Ophthalmologist | $81 |
Examination of eyes | $108 |
Dünyagöz Hospital is a private single-specialty medical center located in Istanbul, Turkey. The team is specialized in ophthalmology. Dünyagöz Hospitals serves both adults and children. Patients from the CIS, Europe, and Arab League States visit the clinic most often. Dünyagöz Hospitals Group performs eye surgeries on 2,500 foreign patients on average each month and attracts more than 40,000 foreign patients to Turkey every year.
Location: Etiler, Nispetiye Cd 100 D, 34337 Beşiktaş/İstanbul, TurkeyLASEK eye surgery | $1721 |
Laser eye surgery | $1721 - $2587 |
LASIK eye surgery | $1721 |
Examination of eyes | $102 - $129 |
Consultation with an ophthalmologist | $102 - $129 |


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The Department of Ophthalmology at Teknon Medical Center (Barcelona, Spain) specializes in correction of vision problems. Doctors treat cataract, glaucoma, strabismus, retinal pathologies. The team of doctors consists of an ophthalmologist and a neurologist.
The Clinic performs surgeries on the retina and vitreous body, removal of the vitreous body (vitrectomy), lens implantation, laser correction of vision.
Location: Carrer de Vilana, 12, 08022 Barcelona, SpainStrabismus surgery | $7254 - $8445 |
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What is ophthalmology?
Ophthalmology is a branch of medicine focused on the diagnosis, treatment, and prevention of eye diseases, partial and complete vision loss.
Pediatric ophthalmology is a subdivision of ophthalmology that studies the characteristics of children's vision. The child’s vision, unlike that of an adult, is constantly changing. Pediatric eye doctors study the features of a child’s vision changes and related pathologies.
What does an eye doctor treat?
Ophthalmologists correct not only vision impairments but diseases of the eyeball, eyelids, lacrimal organs, conjunctiva, and eyepit as well.
The most common eye disorders an ophthalmologist can help you to cope with are:
- nearsightedness (myopia) is a visual impairment when the image is focused in front of the retina and the person cannot clearly see distant objects
- farsightedness (hyperopia) is a visual impairment when the image focuses behind the retina of the eye and a person cannot clearly see close objects
- conjunctivitis — inflammation of the mucous membrane of the eye (conjunctiva)
- cataract — a clouding of the lens of the eye
- glaucoma — increased eye pressure causing visual impairment
- astigmatism — a violation of the shape of the lens or cornea.
How is the eye disease diagnosis carried out?
At the initial appointment, the ophthalmologist conducts an examination and computer vision diagnostics. To determine various visual impairments, the following eye tests are carried out:
- autorefractometry (a measurement of the refractive power of the eye)
- keratometry (assessment of the curvature of the cornea anterior surface)
- non-contact measurement of intraocular pressure
- corneal topography or photokeratoscopy (scanning the surface of the cornea)
- ultrasound of the eye (necessary to assess the condition of the membranes of the eyeball, allows diagnosing changes in the retina and vitreous body, determination of intraocular neoplasms)
- ultrasound biometry (determination of the length of the eye, the thickness of the lens, the depth of the anterior chamber)
- pachymetry (measuring the thickness of the cornea using ultrasound)
- direct and reverse ophthalmoscopy (assessment of the state of the retina, choroid, optic disc, macular zone based on examination of the fundus)
- biomicroscopy (a method that allows examining the anterior and posterior parts of the eyeball with different lighting and image sizes). The study is carried out using a special slit lamp device.
- gonioscopy (examination and assessment of the anterior chamber angle).
Comprehensive ophthalmologic diagnosis allows the ophthalmologist to identify visual impairments and latent refractive errors, develop the most effective treatment plan.
What are eye treatment methods?
To treat eye diseases, ophthalmologists use the following methods:
- drug therapy — the use of drops, vitamins, injections to treat disorders
- physiotherapy — considered the most effective in inflammatory diseases treatment
- eye surgery — used in cases when conservative treatment does not give the desired results.
What are the indications for eye surgery ?
The most common visual impairments are considered glaucoma and cataracts. These diseases are dangerous because they can lead to a significant decrease or even loss of vision. Therefore, surgical intervention is often prescribed to eliminate these effects.
The surgery is also required for treatment of the following diseases:
- refractive disorders
- severe endophthalmitis (inflammation of the interior of the eye)
- progressive severe visual impairment
- astigmatism
- concussion
- inflammatory diseases
- retinal detachment.
What are the methods of eye operations?
Ophthalmologists perform three types of operations:
- surgery for medical reasons to preserve vision, remove a tumor or prevent the spread of infection
- operations to eliminate refractive errors like farsightedness, nearsightedness, and astigmatism
- plastic surgery to eliminate defects such as benign neoplasms, entropion, ptosis, or to change the incision and color of the eyes, remove bags under the eyes.
What are the most common eye surgeries performed?
The following operations are most often performed:
- keratoplasty — corneal transplant in case of cornea defects and other serious changes
- corneal cross-linking — an alternative to keratoplasty for keratoconus treatment at the initial stages
- laser vision correction
- retinal laser photocoagulation
- PRK (photorefractive keratectomy) — myopia, hyperopia, and astigmatism correction using an excimer ophthalmic laser
- lens replacement surgery
- cataract extraction with intraocular lens (IOL) implantation
- glaucoma surgery.

Medical Promise Hospital is a private multi-specialty medical center located in Istanbul, Turkey. The strongest specialties are orthopedics, urology, aesthetic medicine, and weight loss surgery. Among the clinic's achievements are the success rates: 98% for breast lift, 95% for liposuction, 98% for tummy tuck, 98% for ear surgery, and 98 for FUE hair transplant. Medical Promise Hospital serves both adults and children. Patients from Europe, African countries, the USA visit the clinic most often.
Location: Merkez, Darülaceze Cd. 14/1, 34381 Şişli/İstanbul, TurkeyIOLs implantation | $2800 - $3200 |
Botox injections | $281 - $324 |
Cataract surgery (one eye) | $700 - $1000 |
Cataract diagnostic before OP | $125 - $300 |
Corneal pachymetry | $100 |


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SALUSS Medical Group is an award-winning health tourism organization based in Istanbul and Antalya, Turkey, which has served a large number of international patients from all over the world with over 20 different treatment solutions in more than 10 specialties. SALUSS is a well-known solution centre for hair transplants, aesthetic surgeries, dental treatments, obesity surgeries, eye surgeries, orthopaedic, neuro, heart and cancer treatments and many other types of treatment. Over 600 patients choose SALUSS every year. The group has accepted patients from 5 different continents and 52 countries so far.
Location: Arden Plaza Kuşkavağı, 6. Cd. No:37, 07070 Konyaaltı/AntalyaLASIK eye surgery | $2003 |
ReLEx SMILE eye surgery | $2869 |


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The Ophthalmology Department of in Medipol Clinic (Istanbul, Turkey) specializes in the therapy of eye diseases.Specialists provide the treatment of retinal dystrophy, strabismus, cataract, myopia, astigmatism, glaucoma. Medipol ophthalmologists perform a traditional surgery or ultrasonic phacoemulsification for patients with cataract. Correction of myopathy and astigmatism is performed with a laser (LASIK method).
Location: TEM Avrupa Otoyolu Göztepe Çıkışı No: 1 Bağcılar/İstanbulBrain MRI with contrast | $400 - $550 |
Ophthalmology procedures
Botox injections Laser eye surgery LASIK eye surgery ReLEx SMILE eye surgery Strabismus surgery Cataract surgery (one eye) LASEK eye surgery Cataract Surgery with Multifocal Lens Implant
Hisar Hospital Intercontinental is a multi-specialty medical center in Turkey, Istanbul.
The medical center specializes in pediatric and adult cardiovascular surgery, orthopedics, oncology, weight loss surgery, and check-ups. Hisar Intercontinental Hospital serves only adults. 250,000 patients choose Hisar Intercontinental Hospital to get medical care every year. Hisar Hospital is certified by JCI (Joint Commission International) that confirms compliance with international standards of treatment quality and safety.
Patients from CIS, Balkans and African countries choose Hisar Hospital for medical care.
Location: Saray Mah. Site Yolu Cad. No:7 34768 Ümraniye / İstanbulCataract surgery (both eyes) | $2800 - $4500 |
Cataract surgery (one eye) | $2800 - $4500 |
LASIK eye surgery | $1300 - $1500 |
Consultation with an ophthalmologist | $80 - $120 |
OCT (Optical coherence tomography) | $110 - $150 |


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✔️ Over 2 million international patients choose Asklepios Hospitals Group. What do they fall for?
- 95% of patients are satisfied with the eye treatment results
- Asklepios takes 2nd place among the medical tourism facilities. The fact is approved by Medical Travel Quality Alliance (MTQA)
- Asklepios is a leader of German eye healthcare for 25 years
- medical personnel offer the 5-star quality of accommodation
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Location: Rübenkamp 220, 22307 Hamburg, GermanyCataract surgery with IOL replacement | $2165 - $5413 |
Laser eye surgery | $1299 - $4872 |
Vitrectomy | $7038 - $8120 |


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Memorial Şişli Hospital in Istanbul is the largest multidisciplinary medical center in Istanbul. It is the 1st hospital in Turkeу and the 21st in the world accredited by Joint Commission International (JCI) for the high quality of treatment.
Memorial Şişli specialties are the following: oncology, bone marrow transplant, in vitro fertilization (IVF), neurosurgery, and organ transplant. The success rate of organ transplant at Memorial is 90%.
Patients from 92 countries choose Memorial Şişli for treatment annually.
Location: Kaptan Paşa Mah, Halit Ziya Türkkan Sok Famas Plaza No:19 D:C, 34385 Şişli/İstanbul, TurkeyCataract surgery (one eye) | $3450 |
Cataract surgery with IOL replacement | $1500 |
LASEK eye surgery | $2057 |
Consultation with an ophthalmologist | $140 |


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Medicana Ataşehir Hospital is one of the multispecialty hospitals of Medicana Group of Hospitals in Turkey. It comprises 12 modern clinics and employs over 3,500 medical personnel following world’s standards of treatment.
Medicana Ataşehir Hospital meets quality and service standards of the Turkish Ministry of Health and the Joint Commission International (JCI).
Location: Küçükbakkalköy, Vedat Günyol Cd. No:24, 34750 Ataşehir/İstanbul, Turkey
IOLs implantation | $6496 |
Phacoemulsification with IOL implantation | $4000 - $6000 |
Trabeculotomy | $2500 |
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Where is the best eye hospital in the world? Advantages and disadvantages of ophthalmology treatment in different countries
Germany
Advantages
- Germany is considered as the leader in ophthalmology. Eye treatment in Germany is one of the most successful in Europe and the world;
- Medicines used by doctors in the treatment of ophthalmic diseases prevent further deterioration of vision in 90% of patients; 30% of patients have an improvement in image;
- The German doctors are the best eye surgeons in the world. They use cutting-edge canners and laser systems to provide the most effective treatment.
Disadvantages
- The cost of medical services in Germany is 40% higher than in countries of Asia and Eastern Europe.
- Foreign patients need a visa to enter the county, except the citizens of the European Union.
- All German hospitals work on the system of prepaying. A patient should pay a percentage of the price before starting the treatment. This percent is different for citizens of different countries.
Turkey
Advantages
- The cost of laser correction in Turkey is 2 times lower than in Europe, and the quality of ophthalmologic services at the European level. It is 80% cheaper than in the UK, US, and Australia.
- Top ophthalmology hospitals provide patients with check-up programs(diagnostics of the whole body), the cost of which is available to almost everyone.
- Foreign patients do not need a visa for entering the country.
Disadvantages
- The language barrier. Not all, but just a few doctors speak English.
- A patient may face troubles in obtaining documents required for foreign patients.
India
Advantages
- Low cost. Quality services are at 40% lower prices than in European countries.
- High level of service in leading hospitals. Large clinics offer high-quality medical services, have the latest diagnostic and treatment devices, comfortable wards.
- Language. English-speaking doctors and staff who educated in Europe or the USA provide high-quality medical services in large institutions.
- Waiting time. The minimal or total absence of waiting for services.
Disadvantages
- People are lack of information on the healthcare system in India. That’s why the patients hesitate about qualification of Indian specialists.
- The infrastructure of India is far from European standards.
- Cultural differences. Foreign patients can’t accept some aspects (religion, culture and even hygiene).
- For citizens of foreign countries, except citizens of Nepal and Bhutan, a visa is required to enter India.
Israel
Advantages
- Highly qualified specialists. Best ophthalmologists in the world work in Israeli medical centers.
- Specialists of top eye clinics provide complex techniques for more effective treatment. A lot of such technologies were developed or improved in Israel.
- Best eye hospitals offer a high level of medical facilities and equipment.
- In most clinics, the staff speaks English, Russian and Arabic.
- Foreign patients do not need a visa to get treatment in Israel.
Disadvantages
- The prices are significantly higher than in other Asian countries. However, the cost in top eye hospitals in Israel is on the same level than in European ones.
- Political situation. The conflict with Palestine and Arab countries (United Arab Emirates, Iran and Syria) is one of the reasons why many people do not request to Israeli clinics.
What should a patient pay attention to choosing top ophthalmology hospital?
- Accreditation. An important criterion in choosing a medical institution is its compliance with international standards. Appropriate certificates guarantee high-quality treatment and patient care. It is necessary to find out if the medical center you are interested in, has a license to provide the medical services that you need.
Best eye hospitals in the world usually have 2 worldwide known accreditations of medical institutions:
- JCI (Joint Commission International) accreditation;
- International Organization for Standardization (ISO).
- Specialists. The success and effectiveness of treatment depend mainly on the qualifications of the doctor.
When you choose a clinic, take notice if there are such specialists who can provide highly qualified help in the treatment of your disease.
- Equipment. Best ophthalmology hospitals in the world are equipped with all necessary technologies for the highest accuracy of the treatment.
Where can you find the best eye treatment in the world?
The most common and the most effective type of ophthalmology treatments is laser surgery LASIK. Ophthalmologists of medical centers in Germany, Turkey, India and Israel perform this type of laser surgery with a success rate up to 95%.
What are the advantages of the LASIK vision correction?
The benefits of the vision correction with LASIK are:
- The surgery is safe. Best ophthalmologists observe patients for a long time before and after the procedure. Observing helps doctors to prevent complications after the laser surgery.
- Suitable for treatment of all types of visual impairment. If a patient has no contraindications, then laser correction can restore vision almost at all the most common degrees of myopia, hyperopia, and astigmatism,
- Suitable for patients of any age. Patients aged 18 to 55 are the optimal candidates for this procedure.
- The quickness of operating. The operating time of the laser surgery takes a few seconds - 1 minute. The rest of the time is spent on preoperative procedures and takes 10 minutes per eye.
- The absence of pain at all stages of the operation. The ophthalmologists instill anesthetic drops in the eyes, which block pain sensitivity. A patient has only a feeling of pressure at some stages of the surgery.
- The procedure is performed on an outpatient basis. Within an hour after the operation, a patient may come home.
- Quick recovery of vision. 2 hours after the operation a patient can evaluate the first results of laser correction of vision. During 1 week, vision is stabilized.
- Longevity of the operation results. After the laser correction of vision, the shape of the cornea persists for whole life. If a patient does not have progressive myopia, the result of the operation remains for many years.
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Procedure | Turkey | Germany | Israel |
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Corneal Transplant | from 8000$ | - | - |
Treatment of myopia | |||
Myopia Diagnosis + Excimer Laser procedure | from 1800$ | - | - |
Treatment of cataract | |||
Cataract | from 2200$ | - | - |
Cataracts in Children | from 9250$ | - | - |
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I contacted the clinic via Bookimed.com before arrival and supplied them with my medical reports. They picked me up from the airport and sent me to my hotel. I requested having eye lens laser replacement asap so I can go back home a week after the operation. I arrived at the clinic early morning and was received by Anastasia, a health assistant supporting the patients and helping with the translation. I did all the pre operations test and then met with Dr. Remzi Karadag. He checked my test results and performed more tests, then confirmed my suitability for the operation. I had one eye operated on same day and the other eye the next day. I was issued with eye drops and information on how to look after my eyes during convalescence. A week on, so far so good. I am not using glasses anymore but full restoration of vision will take a month or maybe more. Thank you Anastasia from Bookimed.com and Anastasia and Dr. Remzi from Veni Vedi for the treatment and proffesionality