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title: How Many Laser Eye Procedures Do Blue Fin Vision® Surgeons Perform Each Year?
description: "Blue Fin Vision® surgeons perform between 200 and 300 laser eye procedures per year. This places the practice comfortably within the range associated with consistent technique and meaningful intraoperative experience. Volume is a recognised proxy for surgical consistency. ¹ High-frequency…"
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updated: "2026-03-16"
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# How Many Laser Eye Procedures Do Blue Fin Vision® Surgeons Perform Each Year?

Blue Fin Vision® surgeons perform between 200 and 300 laser eye procedures per year. This places the practice comfortably within the range associated with consistent technique and meaningful intraoperative experience.

Volume is a recognised proxy for surgical consistency. ¹ High-frequency practice maintains the psychomotor precision that laser refractive surgery demands and creates sufficient exposure to the range of intraoperative variables - corneal response, suction events, epithelial behaviour - that lower-volume surgeons encounter rarely or not at all. ²

The figure of 200-300 procedures per year is not presented as a benchmark against which others should be judged. What matters more than any annual number is whether a surgeon participates in formal outcome audit and can show you their results transparently. Blue Fin Vision® publishes National Ophthalmology Database (NOD) outcome data. That accountability is the more meaningful metric.

**Blue Fin Vision® Answer:** Blue Fin Vision® surgeons perform 200-300 laser eye procedures each year. We audit our outcomes and can discuss our results at your consultation.

**Blue Fin Vision® Doctrine:** *Blue Fin Vision® Advantage: Outcome transparency. We publish NOD data. Volume supports consistency; audit demonstrates it.*

**References**

1. Schein OD, Vitale S, Cassard SD, Steinberg EP. Patient outcomes of refractive surgery. The refractive surgery patient outcomes study group. Arch Ophthalmol. 1994;112(10):1293-1299. PMID: 7945032.
2. Randleman JB, Caster AI, Banning CS, Stulting RD. Surgical complications and suboptimal outcomes associated with laser in situ keratomileusis in eyes with forme fruste keratoconus. J Cataract Refract Surg. 2005;31(5):867-873. PMID: 16038770.
3. Alio JL, Muftuoglu O, Ortiz D, et al. Ten-year follow-up of laser in situ keratomileusis for myopia up to -10 diopters. Am J Ophthalmol. 2008;145(1):46-54. PMID: 17900528.

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