LAZAH EYE BEAMS! Eye surgery.

[Menarker]

So I've decided to deeply consider the possibility of eye surgery. Glasses don't look good on me at all and contact lenses are too inconvenient and expensive long term for me. My current glasses prescription is long outdated, so it's either this or new glasses and I don't mind spending the extra cash to get something that will hopefully last for the vast majority of my life.

I've booked a consultation session to discuss my options with the specialist, although I'm deeply thinking of the "No-Touch PRK" procedure (http://www.lasereye.com/procedures/no-touch-prk/).

So my request to the rest of you gentlefolks, is to suggest or advise on questions that would be wise to bring up during the consultation session.
As far as I can tell, it is safer than the alternative, the "Intralase SBK" (http://www.lasereye.com/procedures/intralase/) while also being cheaper ($500 cheaper per eye). It does require a longer recovery time period, although since I'm planning to book vacation time for this purpose, this should hopefully not be a problem. Both procedures also boost higher safety and success measure to the LASIK which is cheapest of them all but also uses a motorized blade (called a microkeratome) to cut the flap rather than using the modern state-of-the-art laser. (Something about that doesn't appeal to me...) That said the center does not offer the LASIK procedure and I don't care to get inferior/riskier procedures just to save a week or two of wages.

[Professor Smarmiarty]

Make sure they have play eye will survive when they do it.

[Terex4]

The way the website words it, it sounds like the PRK is for more safety-minded patients or patients with high corrective needs, while the SBK is more effective. I would ask how the two compare as far as end result is concerned.

[Menarker]

Turns out the more expensive one was for the ones that needed higher corrections, and the end results are pretty much the same between the two in almost all their cases.

Fortunately, I'm a prime candidate for eye surgery, and the cheaper/safer one at that. Additionally, they offered their entire service (after-care, future visits and the whole nine yards) at $500 off if I pay by credit card and schedule my eye surgery on a day that isn't a Friday (due to the clinic being busiest at that time.) That said, the other payment options for 6 months payment plan with no interest was also open (along with lengthier plans that have interest on them), but the $500 off is a great boon.

^^ So yeah, thanks for your suggestion, Terex.

[CABAL49]

Eye replacement surgery. Just bring your own pair of extra eyes.