A number of years ago my son and I were both interested in Lasik surgery. In the States at the time they were charging $2,400 for each eye and they would do one eye at a time with a minimum of 6 weeks in between. That's $4,800 total.

We went to Mississauga, Ontario for the procedures at a cost of $1,000 for both eyes done on the same day. That's $1,000 total. The waiting room was filled with U.S. citizens. It was well worth traveling to Canada for the follow-up visits at that price. The expertise was way ahead of what was offered in the States. The machine they used for mapping the eye in Canada wasn't even approved in the U.S. yet. As it turned out, I had Marginal Degeneration (thin around the edges) and they couldn't map my eyes to the degree of accuracy that was needed. They told me that the machine to do it was already available in Europe and that they'd have it within the year. They said that it wouldn't be approved in the U.S. for at least another 5 years.

Xavier