by : Ethan Finster

A Lasik eye surgery is fairly costly, going for about $2000 per eye, being four times of a pair of glasses of delicate designation and fine material. However, due to the fierce competition, a large amount of clinics and centers take gimmicks, claiming that a Lasik eye surgery comes to be as low as $500. Seeing those advertisements, many people would firstly be shocked, and then a tremendous throb go through their hearts. They will think that it would be so great to correct faulty vision by Lasik in such a low price, while few of them will consider whether the gimmicks are true and that how a precise surgery like Lasik comes to be so cheap.

Here I just want to remind those people that such advertisements are deceptive. As a matter of fact, such a low price is just an attraction, aiming at drawing customers to come to the center, and then extra money will be asked for, which is usually more than a Lasik is expected. The Federal Trade Commission has raised the alarm to the centers which have made such deceptive advertisements.

You may ask how the centers carry out the deception. There are many ways:

If some people suffering moderately serious vision problems that may have an opportunity not to have an eye surgery, those centers will encourage them to have a surgery but with older and very limited technology. In this condition, their promises of low prices may come out for the unqualified equipments. For those people who really need an eye operation, they would be told that they are not qualified to the prices advertised, and then more money will be charged.

Another tactic they apply to cheat customers is the provision of some of the optional choices, such as examination beforehand and follow-up afterward, but the point is that those examinations are musts for Lasik surgeries. Although these Lasik surgery chains will not force you to choose those examinations, they will warn you that without the pre and post treatments, you hardly able to get the maximum result. Therefore, after the summation of the so called “optical benefits”, the whole price goes up.

Thus, from what has been illustrated above, we may conclude that nearly the same amount of money will be cost in both centers advertised to be cheap and those never making advertisement, but old equipments that should be abandoned years ago are usually and mostly applied in the so called cheap centers. Therefore, when you decide to go for an eye surgery, go for a reputable Claim center and a more professional surgeon, since it relates closely to your health, especially eyes very much.