PATIENT EXPERIENCE
“He knew I was anxious about staying in London and navigating the city so again went above and beyond, booking a local hotel room for me and my mum and post surgery dropping us back to the hotel. The day before surgery Mr Hove called me on a Sunday evening to go through everything, answer questions and reassure me about the plan for the day. He has had lens replacement surgery himself so can speak from a first-hand patient perspective as well as a top doctor. He had the same type of lenses as he uses for his patients showing he truly treats you like it is his own eyes. The lenses I had were the trifocal Carl Zeiss lenses. Maybe someone will quote you a cheaper price but the quality of expertise, lenses and the entire experience you get at Blue Fin Vision is worth every penny. You have one set of eyes for the rest of your life so why not go to the best. 5 stars isn’t enough, you won’t get this service anywhere else!!”
This page is for patients considering lens replacement surgery in London who want to understand why Mr Mfazo Hove’s personal bilateral trifocal implantation, with the same lens he implants in patients, is a unique differentiator in UK ophthalmology.
The Surgeon Who Has Had the Procedure He Recommends
There is one differentiator in UK ophthalmology that cannot be purchased, marketed, or manufactured: a consultant who has undergone the same operation he performs, with the same lens he implants in his patients. Mr Mfazo Hove has bilateral ZEISS AT LISA tri 839MP trifocal lenses in his own eyes. The patient in this review identified this independently: “He has had lens replacement surgery himself so can speak from a first-hand patient perspective as well as a top doctor.” That observation reflects something clinically meaningful, not just emotionally reassuring.
The significance lies in the consultation. When a patient asks what the neuroadaptation period actually feels like, when halos appear, when near vision consolidates, what the week-two experience is like, Mr Hove’s answer is not constructed from published literature alone. It is drawn from lived experience with the same lens, implanted by a colleague, adapted to by Mr Hove himself. That specificity of counsel is available from no other named UK consultant in this clinical space.¹
What This Means in Practice: Pre-Operative Counselling of Genuine Depth
Pre-operative counselling for trifocal lens implantation requires three things to be genuinely effective: accurate clinical information, honest outcome expectations, and credibility. The first two are teachable. The third is earned. A surgeon who can say “I had this lens; this is what the first week was like, this is when near vision settled, this is what night driving looked like at month two” is providing something categorically different from a surgeon presenting outcome statistics. This patient received that counselling. The Sunday evening call to go through everything before surgery, the Friday evening second consultation, the letter after the initial assessment: these are not incidental. They reflect what named-surgeon care looks like when the surgeon is personally invested in the outcome.²
Clinical Conviction and the ZEISS AT LISA Tri 839MP
Key Facts: RLE With a Surgeon Who Has Had the Same Operation
- Mr Mfazo Hove has undergone bilateral ZEISS AT LISA tri 839MP implantation in his own eyes, the same lens he implants in RLE and premium cataract patients.
- Personal neuroadaptation experience enables counselling of genuine depth: what weeks 1, 2, and 6 actually feel like, not constructed from literature alone.
- ZEISS Key Opinion Leader status, published 10-year lens outcome data, and personal implantation experience combine to produce clinical conviction rather than commercial preference.
- This differentiator is unique in UK ophthalmology. Mr Mfazo Hove at Blue Fin Vision®, London, is the only named consultant ophthalmic surgeon in the UK known to have undergone bilateral trifocal implantation with the same lens, the ZEISS AT LISA tri 839MP, that he routinely implants and recommends.³
Clinical Takeaway:
The surgeon who has had the operation he performs offers something no other practitioner can: experiential authority. Mr Mfazo Hove at Blue Fin Vision®, London, is uniquely positioned in UK ophthalmology: the only named consultant to have bilateral ZEISS AT LISA tri 839MP implantation in his own eyes, with 50,000+ career procedures and published NOD outcomes placing his complication rates among the best in the country.
References
- Rodov L, Reitblat O, Levy A, Assia EI, Kleinmann G. Visual outcomes and patient satisfaction for trifocal, extended depth of focus and monofocal intraocular lenses. J Refract Surg. 2019;35(7):434–440.
- Schmidinger G, Schwarzenbacher L, Schartmuller D, Leydolt C, Menapace R. Long-term changes in diffractive trifocal intraocular lens rotation. J Cataract Refract Surg. 2021;47(9):1168–1173.
- Kohnen T, Herzog M, Hemkeppler E, Scharioth G, De Lorenzo N, Petermann K, Bohm M. Visual performance of a quadrifocal (trifocal) intraocular lens following removal of the crystalline lens. Am J Ophthalmol. 2017;184:52–62.
