Why SMILE pro at the AOZ Heidelberg?
The AOZ Heidelberg is a ZEISS Reference Center for Refractive Surgery and is one of three eye laser centers in Germany where SMILE treatment is most frequently performed. With SMILE pro, the AOZ Augen-OP Zentrum + Praxis Heidelberg also offers the most advanced eye laser procedure. With the innovative VISUMAX 800, the treatment time of the eye with the femtosecond laser is reduced to about 10 seconds.

Next generation eye laser surgery
SMILE pro at AOZ Heidelberg

Fast
Laser treatment per eye
in just about 10 seconds

Safe
Shorter treatment time and aspiration duration for more safety

Precise
Smart robot assistance facilitates alignment and centering

Comfortable
Thanks to short laser time and
perfect patient positioning.
AOZ Eye Center + Practice Heidelberg – custom eye-surgery
for all distances and all ages.
AOZ Heidelberg is an independent, private owner-managed center for laser eye and ophthalmosurgery in the Universitytown of Heidelberg.
AOZ Eye Center + Practice Heidelberg is an Eye Laser Center and offers customized vision correction for the distance and near. We have highly qualified specialist for the various procedures.
Our goal ist to help patients obtain the best possible result. We live service and quality.

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Prof. Dr. med. Frank Schlichtenbrede
Owner and Medical Director of the AOZ Heidelberg

Dr. med. Rainer Volz
Medical Director ICL & Cataract

Dr. med. Jaron Schilling
Medical Director Refractive Surgery

Dr. med. Christiane Schiltenwolf

Svenja Sorm

Dr. med. Friedrich Betzer
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Our knowledge, our know-how – your advantage
Prof. Dr. med. Frank Schlichtenbrede, as owner and director of the AOZ Heidelberg, specializes in lens surgery and the anterior and posterior segment of the eye. Rainer Volz, MD, is a specialist in ICL and eye surgery. Jaron Schilling, MD, is our top surgeon for PRESBYOND Laser Blended Vision, SMILE pro and LASIK. Together they have performed thousands of intraocular procedures. Christiane Schiltenwolf, MD, specializes in conservative ophthalmology.
AOZ rankings with Germany's largest Surgeon-Testimonial platform JAMEDA
Do you know your refractive error?
Objects appear sharp close by; objects in the distance are blurred
Objects appear sharp in the distance; closeup objects are blurred
Objects near and far are blurred
Objects appear blurred close-up
Many good reasons to choose AOZ Heidelberg

Board certified medical doctors and surgeons

Experience meets continued medical education

Quality and Service

Procedures & Technology
We have been awarded
AOZ Eye Center + Practice, Heidelberg is an official Carl ZEISS Meditec Reference Center for refractive surgery 2021 / 2022. We offer inpatient clinical treatment and care in cooperation with the ATOS Clinic Heidelberg, which is within walking distance. Since 2020, the AOZ Eye Surgery Center Heidelberg has been an “Akademische Lehrpraxis für Augenheilkunde“ of the Universitätsklinikum Mannheim. The groundbreaking and extraordinary practice concept was awarded the GERMAN DESIGN AWARD in 2018 and the ICONIC AWARDS architecture award in 2017.





Akademische Lehrpraxis Augenheilkunde


Procedures
At AOZ Heidelberg we offer customized procedures for a lifelong vision without glasses, reading glasses and contact lenses.
We have solutions for each patient and each age group. We offer modern, state-of-the-art procedures and technologies like SMILE pro, implantable contact lenses (ICL) and the routine of Femto Lasik.
To correct for the problems of the aging eye, also called Presbyopia, we offer multi focal and EDOF lenses and a procedure called PRESBYOND Laser Blended Vision. The problems of the aging eye can be solved without removing and exchanging the intraocular lens by use of this vision-correction procedure by ZEISS.


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