My experience with Lasik is that top notch means two things:
- Technology
- Specialist
If you look around in the States you will find that there are basically 3 types of outfits:
- The certified eye surgeon.
- A clinic under supervision of an eye surgeon.
- A franchise type operation with a myriad of "doctors" of all sorts.
The first and second type will have the newest technology available on the marked... LEASED. Once the machines are outdated, which usually doesn't take much longer than a year, they are traded out to #2 and 3 and finally find their way thru wholesale companies in Miami and New York into countries like this one.
When I did my eyes years ago, I found that the lowest risk and best chances of a quality result would be with a certified eye surgeon using the latest technology. I would venture to suspect that it's unlikely to find that combination here in the DR, but I have been wrong with my suspicions before, so...
You do not need an eye surgeon to have quality Lasik, but IF something goes wrong, you will, and in some cases IMMEDIATELY. The chance for this to happen are small but then, it's eye sight we are talking about.
IF it was my eyes again, I'd treat myself to a trip to Florida and had it done there.
This is not to say the one can't get a quality service here with a qualified Dr. using fairly recent technology.
... J-D.