Northern California Custom Wavefront LASIK, Laser Eye Surgery and Vision Correction

You have a wide choice of Northern California LASIK eye surgeons, including Harvard MD and surgeon, Dr. Scott Hyver, in the San Francisco Bay Area. Among the hundreds of Northern California Custom Wavefront LASIK doctors, how do you find a surgeon you can trust?

The LASIK Price Spectrum

Fees in the Northern California laser eye surgery market can range from a few hundred dollars per eye to a few thousand! Northern California LASIK eye surgeons make a conscious choice on where they price on this spectrum, and their decisions reveal the type of clientele they serve in the Northern California vision correction surgery market.

Most Northern California LASIK patients understand that price sends a message. As much as they'd love to get LASIK for such a fee, they know that there's more to the LASIK value equation than price. If the price is unusually cheap, then there's likely to be a trade-off, somewhere.

So let's assume instead that you have the wherewithal to afford a leading Northern California LASIK surgeon. What's the next step in sorting through the hundreds of surgeons that populate the Northern California vision correction market?

The Limitations of Location

How about narrowing the list based on location? It's easy to weed out a Northern California LASIK eye surgeon if he's not in close physical proximity. On the other hand, world-class LASIK surgeons tend to congregate in major metropolitan centers, like the San Francisco Bay Area, where they have easy access to technology, university facilities and other eye sub-specialists. For example, one of ScottHyver Visioncare's offices is in Santa Clara , about a mile away from the corporate and research offices of VISX, Inc., the world's leading manufacturer of laser vision systems. Not surprisingly, Dr. Hyver has a close working relationship with VISX, and owns and operates two VISX S4 Wavefront LASIK platforms.

So like the price issue, the location issue is not obvious. If you're interested in getting a great visual outcome, there may not be a Northern California laser eye surgery doctor in your community who's up to the task. You may have to go the extra mile, or settle for something less.

Let's say you are willing to go the extra mile, and that you're not fooled by the empty promise of the $299 per eye proposition. How then do you find a Northern California laser vision correction doctor who's uncompromisingly dedicated to producing the best LASIK outcome he can?

The Essential Role of Your Pre-Op Care

Here's how you can really tell if your Northern California LASIK doctor has his act together: study his pre-operative approach. Great LASIK outcomes are born in the pre-operative stage of your care. That's where your vision error and corneal features are mathematically defined. These data are interpreted by software that generates your "ablation profile," the instructions that tell the laser where to move over your cornea, and for how long to fire. Bottom line: the more accurate your pre-operative measurements, the better your visual outcome is likely to be.

There are substantial differences in how Northern California LASIK surgeons approach your pre-operative care. Consider: there are some vision correction surgery practices where you don't see your surgeon until you enter the operating room for your procedure. All your critical pre-op analysis, including the capture of data that will ultimately determine the quality of your surgical outcome (which by the way, you'll live with for the rest of your life), is conducted by non-medically trained personnel without the involvement of the LSIK surgeon!

But let's say you visit a Northern California laser eye surgery center, and the surgeon meets you in the exam room. That's a step in the right direction. But in the span of a few minutes, he conducts a quick and cursory exam, before he's off to his next appointment. To what extent did this brief interaction enable him to gain the kind of detailed insight into your vision problem that becomes the basis for a world-class visual outcome? It's kind of like going to McDonald's: you're in and out quickly, and leave with a run-of-the-mill burger in your stomach. But face it, LASIK is a once in a lifetime opportunity — you don't want to settle for an average, run-of-the-mill LASIK outcome; you want a great visual outcome!

Why "Test Twice, Treat Once" is better than Vice Versa

When it comes to the rigors of the pre-operative care process, Dr. Scott Hyver is virtually unique in the Northern California laser vision correction surgery community. Not only is he personally and extensively involved in your pre-operative analysis, he practices the "test twice, treat once" philosophy. See if your Northern California LASIK eye surgeon follows this protocol: instead of relying on a single data set generated on the day of your initial exam, Dr. Hyver also analyzes your vision error (i.e., prescription) on your surgery day prior to your procedure. He uses these two data sets, generated across two separate days, to gain a more precise reading of your vision error. And as we know by now, the more accurate the data that goes into the laser, the better the visual outcome is likely to be.

The extra time that Dr. Hyver spends with his patients in the pre-op stage of their care is repugnant to many Northern California Wavefront LASIK surgeon. Why? Because if they spend extra time with their patients, they can't maintain high volumes, and their earnings potential takes a hit. Dr. Hyver, on the other hand, is motivated to optimize the visual outcomes of each and every one of his patients. That means spending extra time with each patient, so he gets to know them and their vision problem.

So explore in these webpage the advantages of choosing ScottHyver Visioncare for your LASIK surgery treatment. While you're here you can also order your free copy of our new DVD, Exploring Laser Vision Correction, featuring the San Francisco 49ers, and schedule a free Bay Area Wavefront LASIK consultation and complete eye exam with Dr. Hyver.