MB ChB 1986 Auckland; FRANZCO 1993

Dr David Kent (MBChB, FRANZCO, FRACS)  is one of Australasia’s leading LASIK specialists and has done over 28,000 LASIK procedures, more than any other New Zealand eye surgeon.

Recognised as a leader in the field of corrective laser eye surgery, LASIK, SMILEpro eye laser and PRK. Dr Kent is both the current New Zealand representative to the International Society of Refractive Surgery and the New Zealand representative to the Australasian Society of Cataract and Refractive Surgery.  He is one of the most experienced laser surgeons in Australasia and has done more LASIK surgery than any other New Zealand eye surgeon.

Dr Kent also offers the latest techniques in cataract surgery. He has done almost all his cataract surgery under topical eyedrop anaesthesia with no injection, no eyepatch since 1996. He specialises in refractive cataract surgery using multifocal intraocular lenses aiming to reduce dependence on glasses and/or contact lenses.

Laser Eye Surgery

• SMILEpro
• LASIK
• PRK

Cataract & Refractive Lens Exchange Surgery (Clear Lens Extraction ) and offers

• Trifocal IOLs
• Extended-depth-of-focus (EDoF) IOLs
• Monovision or “blended vision” with monofocal IOLs

Keratoconus Treatments

• Corneal Cross Linking
• Keraring Surgery

Implantable Contact Lens Surgery

Ophthalmologist

Dr David Kent completed his medical degree in 1985 and trained as an eye surgeon (ophthalmologist) in 1992 in Auckland. He then spent 12 months at Moorfields Eye Hospital in London doing glaucoma. Dr Kent spent 19 months in Charleston, South Carolina working with Dr Kerry Solomon and Dr David Apple at the Storm Eye Institute, Medical University of South Carolina. There he did post-graduate training in excimer laser surgery, cataract surgery and intraocular lenses. He worked at an excimer laser clinic in Melbourne to further his sub-specialty training before returning to New Zealand in 1996 to establish the Fendalton Eye Clinic. Dr Kent was the first New Zealand eye surgeon to undertake formal university based training in LASIK surgery, in 1994. During his time in the United States Dr Kent was involved in US FDA trials of excimer laser surgery as well as research into how the cornea heals after the LASIK procedure.

Male / Tāne

27 November 1986

Ophthalmology

English