05-21-2007, 11:51 PM
First-hand recommendations are always good. Second option is to find out what eye clinic in town handles the professional sports eye injuries and/or "repairs" from other clinics' procedures...it will usually be affiliated with a hospital. Bonus points if one or more of the surgeons on staff holds patents on some of the technology used for eye surgery. In my case, I had the recommendations, the clinic was well known for some "saves" on professional athletes, the surgeon who started the clinic had a wall of patents and industry recognitions, and they were using wavefront technology for eye mapping before wavefront was approved for surgery. And, as always, if the surgeon is the least bit "iffy" about you being a good candidate (usually due to corneal thickness), I'd hold off.