These practices operate very differently from those that offer refractive surgery as part of their menu of ophthalmic services. Some practices offer a variety of staff to provide patient care. You need to decide which system works best for you. We have provided a list of questions that you can ask to help you determine a practice's style of care. There are no right or wrong answers to any of these questions.
Ophthalmic practices approach patient care differently.
The goal is to find a practice with an approach that suits your needs. 1-5 Generally speaking, after approximately one hundred procedures, a surgeon's nomogram is rather well developed. In order to achieve good results, your surgeon should make every effort to meet or exceed benchmark standards. It is important to note that, generally speaking, surgeons track their outcomes in order to improve their results, and it is up to the ophthalmologists to track and report their own results. Currently, there is no central reporting database of surgical outcomes for this ophthalmic procedure.