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How to Choose Your LASIK Surgeon
Phoenix, Arizona
When someone makes a decision to proceed with laser vision correction, a bewildering variety of facilities appear to be out there waiting to help you through the process. One of the most critical decisions involves the choice of a surgeon that will guide you through this process.
Some of the factors to keep in mind when choosing a surgeon:
Price is absolutely not the priority; your vision is the priority. Choose a surgeon that makes you comfortable, with no regard to price. It is easy to find cheap prices for LASIK - but these are your eyes that we are dealing with; avoid making decisions based on discount prices.
Be aware of common "bait-and-switch" come ons; it is common to see cheap prices advertised - but the prices generally are limited to very low myopia with no astigmatism - often at levels that patients would not even be motivated to decide to have laser surgery. These discount facilities often acknowledge that better than 90% of patients that inquire do not qualify for the advertised price.
Continuity of care is important; avoid facilities that make you feel like a number in an assembly line. The surgeon should be the one working with you before, during, and after the procedure.
Experience is important; don't be the surgeon's first LASIK patient. It is not necessary to be swayed by a surgeon's claim that he or she has performed thousands of procedures in a year - that type of surgeon was likely performing surgeries in an assembly line environment. Skilled and knowledgeable surgeons will have performed at least a few hundred procedures.
Choose a LASIK surgeon that you feel you can communicate with. Much of the success of the LASIK experience is related to the patient's comfort level in communicating with the surgeon and staff.
The technology that is available in the US consists of Excimer laser machines that are FDA approved. There are several excellent machines from companies such as VISX, LaserSight, Chiron, Autonomous and others.
Thanks to the careful scrutiny of the FDA, there is no one machine that can be considered vastly superior to another. Don’t be fooled by advertising – you should see through the marketing hype and always remember that it is more important to trust the surgeon operating the machine.
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