Lasik / flying?

Richard Riley wrote:

gatt wrote:

Thank you everybody for your information! Still haven't decided to make the
jump, but I've yet to hear a real horror story so I'll continue to look into
it.

Looks like it's getting pretty competitive, down to under $300 per eye.


It's not something I would go bargain shopping for. My opthamologist
has a nice business patching up people that did it on the cheap. If
they're charging less that $1500 an eye, they're cutting corners.

How do you cut corners with LASIK since most of the hard work is
automated? Are there better and worse LASIK machines? I thought all
had to be FDA approved.


Matt

Do be careful of the cheap places. I had mine done at a place that was
(at the time) $750 per eye. They are now advertising 299.00 per eye. My
Wife had hers done a couple of years ago, about $1500 per eye. The big
difference is the care!

The place I had mine done did it assembley line style...lots of people
on a given surgery day. Their office as a couple hours drive away, but
they have lots of local reps. Unfortunatelly, the local rep seemed to be
in it for the money. He was very perfunctionary, in and out, and the
piles of literature for sports cars didn't help his image!

My wife, OTOH, had hers done locally, and followup by the same people.
quality care all the way through.

We both have 20/20 vision, so it DID work for both of us. But if I had
to do it again, I go with the better quality care.

John

How do you cut corners with LASIK since most of the hard work is
automated? Are there better and worse LASIK machines? I thought all
had to be FDA approved.

Off the top of my head - don't have a laser tech on staff. Use the
laser tube itself for more than 1000 procedures - it's still within FDA
spec, but not as accurate as it was earlier in it's life. Use a laser
that's 5 years old (same thing). Hire people that graduated at the
bottom of their class, from a foreign med school.

Good to know, John! Thanks.
-c

"John T" wrote in message
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Do be careful of the cheap places. I had mine done at a place that was (at
the time) $750 per eye. They are now advertising 299.00 per eye. My Wife
had hers done a couple of years ago, about $1500 per eye. The big
difference is the care!

The place I had mine done did it assembley line style...lots of people on
a given surgery day. Their office as a couple hours drive away, but they
have lots of local reps. Unfortunatelly, the local rep seemed to be in it
for the money. He was very perfunctionary, in and out, and the piles of
literature for sports cars didn't help his image!

My wife, OTOH, had hers done locally, and followup by the same people.
quality care all the way through.

We both have 20/20 vision, so it DID work for both of us. But if I had to
do it again, I go with the better quality care.

John