Triinu Kree: Flow3 Changed Everything

I'm Triinu Kree, 19, from Viljandi. Life in Tallinn has been anything but quiet. I act in films and TV series at home and abroad, study drama, write for various publications, teach at the Music and Theatre Academy, work in retail, and study dental assisting at Tallinn Health Care College—both my grandmothers worked in dentistry. I love the colour crimson, feminism, butternut squash soup, pockets, and seeing the world through grateful, childlike wonder.

But I'm here as a guest writer at KSA to tell you about ditching my glasses for good.

The glasses years

I got glasses at 8. I couldn't see the board at school, so I'd whisper to my best friend (still my best friend) to catch what the teacher wrote. That first eye exam was scary—the doctor announced: "You're nearly blind," over one dioptre. I hated wearing them. In English class, our teacher actually crouched down at my desk and said: "Glasses." I reluctantly pulled them out. Over the years, I've owned about five pairs.

Sports were a nightmare. Skipping rope meant they'd slide down my nose. They'd fog up coming indoors. They broke during kickboxing training. And as a self-conscious teenager, they didn't help my self-image. I was bullied through primary school, though not specifically for the glasses.

Triinu at 11, glasses and all

Contact lenses didn't work

Summer 2022, I tried contact lenses in Tartu before filming a major international series about the Estonia shipwreck disaster. Period dramas demand authenticity—a crew in all black, and glasses? Impossible to manage continuity. I'd learned to recognize people by their walk and small details instead.

But my eyes had other plans. The optometrist explained I have unusually sensitive eyes with a strong reflex. Putting lenses in took hours despite every trick in the book. My eyes turned red, painful from rubbing. I was anxious, stressed, and by the time we wrapped, I'd given up. Contacts weren't the answer.

Finding the right solution

For years after, I wore glasses on set and off. They weren't going anywhere, and I'd made peace with that.

But then I kept hearing about Flow3—a flapless laser procedure. No cutting a flap in your cornea. Just surface laser work. Safer, especially for someone like me who lives an active life. Recovery is about a week. And the really striking detail: the entire clinical team at KSA Silmakeskus chose it for their own eyes. When your surgeon operates on themselves with the same procedure, you listen.

Dr. Ants Haavel and his team have done over 55,000 procedures. That's not a clinic learning on the job—that's mastery.

I booked a consultation. No pressure. Just answers. They explained why Flow3 made sense for my eyes, my lifestyle, my sensitivity. It felt right.

Life after Flow3

The procedure itself was brief and precise. Recovery was exactly as promised—about a week before things felt normal. No dramatic complications. No surprises. Just better vision, day by day.

Now? I see the board. I see the whole set without worrying about fogging or sliding frames. I can train, run, move freely without thinking about my glasses. On camera, my face is finally just my face. That sounds like a small thing. It isn't.

Life is richer now. More spacious. Less negotiation with equipment. I can move through the world the way I imagined when I was 8 and just wanted to see.

If you're tired of glasses or contacts, if you're active and want a solution designed for real life—talk to KSA. They know what they're doing. And they'll be straight with you about whether you're a candidate.

I'm glad I did.