Does anyone know any personal experiences or information on laser vision correction?
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I had PRK a little over a month ago.
I researched my surgeon thoroughly...started with three in my area where I had recommendations from my optometrist and a corneal specialist I work for. I mean, I looked up EVERYTHING I could about them...price for me was not as important as education, experience, their failure/complication rates.
The national average is about $1300 to $2100 per eye, depending on the technology. My hubby had LASIK a couple of weeks before I did and he did finance his. I used my credit card. Funny part...they would not accept CASH!
My husband and I attribute our success to the education and experience of our surgeon...and he wasn't the cheapest, but not the most expensive either. $3400 for him and $4000 for me before our vision insurance discount.
The link below has a lot of information about vision correction procedures...and I put the link from their site to surgeons in Boston. That is most likely NOT the only ones there, but it's a place to start.
For my hubby and I, having our surgeries was a great experience with wonderful results.all due to our surgeon and following our postop instructions very carefully.
One word of advice. See an eye doctor who's office does not perform laser corrective surgery first. This is to ensure that you get non-biased advice about what options you have and what the risks really are for you. This is very important, there is a lot of money in laser corrective surgery and a lot of the places that do it are kind of sham operations. Also, laser corrective surgery is best if you have moderate to severe correction because it doesn't always corrects your eyes back to perfect vision.
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