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HOW TO MAKE THE BEST CHOICES FOR YOUR EYES
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What is Best for Me?
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LASIK
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Painless
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Fastest Recovery
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Driving Vision Next Day
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Immedidate Return to Work
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See the alarm clock the next morning
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Most Popular
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Over a Million in US each year
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Three Million Worldwide
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20 Million patients with LASIK since FDA approval in 1998
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80% of Patients choose LASIK
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Stability
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Accuracy
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Precision
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Results last a lifetime
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Enhancement, if necessary, is easy
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ICL
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No Dry Eye
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Incredible Vision
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Improved Contrast Sensitivity
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No-Glare No-Halos
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No Visual Fluctuation
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Reversible
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Large Pupil Safe
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Corrects Extremely Nearsighted Patients
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Epi-LASIK
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Bladeless
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Your cornea is not cut
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Only the extremely precise cool-laser reshapes your cornea
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Flap-free
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No "flap-complications"
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Trauma Resistant
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Cornea returns to full strength
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Solid
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Minimal Visual Fluctuation
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Less Glare and Halos
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Less night driving issues
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Safety
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Safe when LASIK is not an option
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Maintains corneal structural integrity
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Less Dry Eye
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Less Visual fluctuation
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Crystalens™
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Only appropriate if you have a cataract
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Provides distance and near vision without bifocals
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Surgery involves only one eye at a time
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Surgery is done at Wills Eye in Warminster or Kremer Eye Center in King of Prussia
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Cost is $2500 per eye
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Why Dr. Lewis?
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Corneal Subspecialist
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Fellowship Trained in Corneal Surgery
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Director of Refractive Services at the Pennsylvania College of Optometry
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Over 8,000 Successful LASIK Surgeries
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Wills Eye Surgeon
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Top Cataract and Implant Surgeon
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Lecturer, Author, Inventor, Innovator
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Personable
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Reputation
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$2500 total cost
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No Extra Charges or hidden costs
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Everyone gets the "Platinum Plan"
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Enhancements and Postop Care for one year are FREE
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Tear Film Enhancement (plugs) included
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Evaluations are Complete and Free
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LASIK-trained Eye Physician performs all Evaluations
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State of the Art Facility
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Contrast Sensitivity Testing
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Sterile Operating Suite
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Visante™ Corneal Imaging
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Wavefront Analysis
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Moria Disposable Microkeratome
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Advanced Scanning Slit
NIDEK Laser
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3D Excimer Calibration
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HEPA Air filtration, humity and temperature control
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Multiple Topographers
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High-Tech
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Full corneal pachymetry
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Patients get DVD of their own surgery
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Patients can have their LASIK webcast to friends and family
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email access to Staff and Surgeon
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Refractive-based electronic medical record
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LASIK Seminar on DVD for new patients
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Plasma Display for Surgery Observation
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Backup, Regulated Power
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Redundant Excimer LASERS and Microkeratomes
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Operating Microscope and fully sterile procedure
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Knowledgeable Staff
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Compassionate
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Experienced
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Caring
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Patient Advocates
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Caregivers, not Sales People
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Many are Dr. Lewis LASIK patients
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LASIK Costs
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Company or Group Discount
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Offered as a benefit for working at a particular company or in a particular profession
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Typically 10 to 25% off price
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No choice of LASIK surgeon
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Only applies to prices over $3750
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Final cost almost always more than $2750
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Can not be used for family members
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Tiered Pricing
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Platinum Plan
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Top of the line surgery over $5500.00
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Your referring optometrist will be paid for performing your postoperative care
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Sales staff promotes this option, "After all, these are your eyes!"
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Enhancements are discounted as long as you pay for a yearly eye exam at one of their referring doctor's offices
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Gold Plan
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Costs are typically$4500.00
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The laser or software used is the second best
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Included Postoperative followup is limited to 6 months
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If you paid more you could have their best LASIK
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Silver Plan
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Usually $3500.00
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One step up from their no-frills laser
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Postoperative followup limited to 3 months
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No enhancements are covered
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Pay extra for punctal occlusion
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Bronze Plan
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This is the price they advertise
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Staff goal is to up sell
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Cost Competitive
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Nothing is included
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Low financing is based on this price
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Usual cost is $2999
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a la carte
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Punctal Plugs for dry eye is extra
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Stronger prescriptions cost more
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Evaluations are free but they are incomplete
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Full evaluations costs are deducted from surgery if you schedule there
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Advertised costs range from $299 an eye to $999 an eye
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95% pay more than the advertised price
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Average cost of a la carte LASIK is $3000
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Dr. Lewis
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Comanagement fees and tear enhancements (plugs) are free.
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Complete LASIK evaluations by a LASIK trained eye doctor is FREE
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No upselling: Everyone gets Platinum Plan
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No hidden charges
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LASIK Buzzwords
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Surface Ablation
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General term for corneal reshaping without cutting a flap. These procedures include PRK, LASEK, and Epi-LASIK.
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Epi-LASIK is the gold standard of surface ablation procedures. The rest are out of date.
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Intralase™
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Femto-Second laser that cuts a corneal flap
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Long term severe light sensitivity is a known complication
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High doses of postoperative steroids are need to reduce inflammation from this "hot laser"
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A layer of gases from the laser can delay the completion of the surgery for as many as 6 hours
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Failed flaps and incomplete flaps occur. Scaring and haze are possible.
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Wavefront LASIK™
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A marketing term for LASIK that tries to correct vision and reduce Higher Order Aberrations
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While the goal has not been met, the marketing pressures are enormous
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Many centers falsely imply that wavefront LASIK is the holy grail of LASIK.
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Custom LASIK™
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Just another term for Wavefront LASIK.
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This is always marketed as a premium service with greater cost
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Higher-order aberrations
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Part of a patient's visual system that is not corrected by glasses or soft contacts.
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Wavefront analysis is the measurement of a patient's higher order aberrations
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Some have hypothesize that reducing aberrations will improve LASIK results
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While theoretically sound, this effort has failed.
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HO aberrations change significantly with age
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Cutting the flap changes the HO aberrations
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Healing changes the aberrations
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The submicron precision required is not yet available
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There is no consensus on the benefit to the patient of reducing HO aberrations
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All Laser LASIK
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This term is used to market LASIK using the Intralase
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Bladeless LASIK
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Another marketing term for LASIK using an Intralase to cut the flap
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Bladeless Epi-LASIK
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Emphasizes that Epi-LASIK, by definition, does not use a blade or cut any kind of flap
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Dr. Lewis is a strong
proponent of this technology. He received the first FDA approved Moria Epi-LASIK unit
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LASIK: Tall Tales
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Our corporate laser center has performed 500,000 LASIK procedures. Our surgeon's skills increase due to osmosis. Except for the new guys, all of our surgeons are experienced.
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One of our doctors operated on a very famous person and/or star athlete. Famous people and athletes pick the best surgeons. Besides, they can read our billboards.
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A radio and/or TV personality had surgery here. You should too, just listen to them on air. They aren't saying anything they wouldn't have said even if we didn't pay them per minute and give them free surgery.
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Our LASIK center has offices all over the country. Just because 5 major corporate centers went broke or were bought out, we are going to be here forever and ever.
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The excimer laser is a very delicate piece of highly precise surgical equipment. We have found a way to pack it up on a truck and haul it across town to your doctor's office without problems. We even control temperature, humidity, and dust when we push it across the parking lot to the office. This is called a roll-on roll-off LASER.
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We will give you wavefront guided LASIK to precisely match the fingerprint of your eye. Of course, you may need an enhancement if your fingerprint changes or you don't heal exactly right. And yes, we are trying to match the wavefront you had before we made your flap.
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All LASER LASIK is much better than anything else. Your are a perfect candidate for it. Of course, if you can't afford the surcharge we can do the other kind of LASIK
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Our enhancement rate is less than 2%, even though the national average is 15%
We hardly ever do enhancements, but if you need one, you need to pay us extra.
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I am known as the LASIK doctor's LASIK doctor. So I must be good. Remember, doctors know best. Besides, i gave them free surgery.
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We offer no interest, no down payment, low financing rates. The total amount you pay isn't really important because thats something for you to discuss with the credit card company.
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Our doctor has done 5,000 LASIK, that's gotta be better than your doctor who has only done 4,000
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Custom ablation lowers the risk of glare, halos and starbursts. I know, because I've asked my patients if they have less glare than if I had done the other surgery on them. Besides the laser manufacturer told they are sure that their new laser is better than last years model.
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We specialize in LASIK. In fact, all we do is LASIK. Even though there are non-LASIK options for many patients, all we do is LASIK. Besides, if I did more than LASIK I would have to be a real eye doctor and not what they call a "shooter". I used to be a pediatric ophthalmologist, but there wasn't a whole lot of money in that. Also, I just have to work 9 to 5 and the corporation takes care of all that annoying after hours patient care.
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