london england area served united kingdom key people russell ambrose website http www.optimax.co.uk optimax is a uk based laser eye treatment specialist which has 38 locations nationwide . 1 optimax was established as one of the first private clinics to offer laser eye surgery . 2 laser eye surgery in the uk is dominated by three main companies optical express ultralase and optimax which in total account for approximately 56 % of clinics in the uk . 3 history edit optimax was founded by russell ambrose in 1991 and he became the very first patient to receive treatment at optimax . 4 eleven years later in 2002 optimax performed their 100 000th laser eye surgery procedure . 5 nowadays optimax operates optical care clinics throughout the uk and has used laser eye surgery to correct the minor visual impairments of around 350 000 patients . 6 optimax were the first company to introduce femtosecond laser intralasik and schwind lasers . 7 in april 2014 a complaint by optical express that the company had funded a protest website critical of optical express was dismissed by nominet . 8 references edit eye health problems and eye health care features from optician online ten years of trends in uk refractive surgery . opticianonline.net . retrieved 1 september 2011 . eye surgery compare optimax laser eye surgery . eyesurgerycompare.co.uk . retrieved 1 april 2014 . eye health problems and eye health care features from optician online ten years of trends in uk refractive surgery . opticianonline.net . retrieved 1 september 2011 . entrepreneur saw the light with lasers times online . thetimes.co.uk . retrieved 1 september 2011 . eye surgery compare optimax laser eye surgery . eyesurgerycompare.co.uk . retrieved 1 april 2014 . a history of optimax what do they offer . businessandhealth.com . retrieved 1 april 2014 . compare for optical express ultralase optimax . what lasik clinic should i choose in uk . lasikreviews.co.uk . retrieved 1 september 2011 . daniel boffey 5 april 2014 . optical express loses bid to close laser eye surgery critic s website . www.theguardian.com . guardian news and media limited . external links edit official website this article about a company of the uk is a stub . you can help wikipedia by expanding it . v t e retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title optimax & oldid 702824174 categories united kingdom company stubscompanies based in londoncompanies established in 1991eye care in the united kingdom1991 establishments in the united kingdomhidden categories all stub articles navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial pagespermanent linkpage informationwikidata itemcite this page print export create a bookdownload as pdfprintable version languages add links this page was last modified on 1 february 2016 at 21 45 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; additional terms may apply . by using this site you agree to the terms of use and privacy policy . wikipedia is a registered trademark of the wikimedia foundation inc. a non profit organization . privacy policy about wikipedia disclaimers contact wikipedia developers cookie statement mobile view