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One of the most popular LASIK excimer laser systems in use around the world is the AMO VISX Star S4 with Wavescan wavefront custom LASIK. This is currently the most popular LASIK system in the USA and the most popular LASIK system in the San Francisco, San Jose, San Diego, Los Angeles, New York, and New Jersey. While LASIK patients all around the world use the AMO VISX excimer laser, it is most popular in the USA. Outside the USA, Bausch and Lomb, Nidek, Zeiss, and other excimer laser manufacturing companies have a much greater market presence.

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LASIK Financing is chosen by a large number of patients who desire LASIK but cannot afford to undergo the LASIK procedure without the option of LASIK financing. LASIK surgery will typically cost between $2,000 and $3,000 per eye. The total cost would therefore be at least $4,000 and likely $5,000 or more. This cost is not easily absorbed without LASIK financing.

Generally plastic surgery, cosmetic surgery, and other elective (optional, voluntary) types of surgery are not covered by health insurance. It is rare for a company to cover an elective surgery procedure. This is where LASIK financing comes in. LASIK financing allows LASIK patients to afford a treatment that otherwise they would not be able to afford on their own.

Because LASIK is considered to be an elective surgery, LASIK financing can also be used by people who do not have health insurance, or whose health insurance does not cover certain compulsory procedures.
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Perhaps the most important technology in the ability to perform LASIK eye surgery was the invention of the excimer laser. No other medical device used in LASIK surgery is as advanced or has as much influence upon the results of the surgery as the excimer laser. A LASIK surgeon should consider the Excimer Laser to be the single most important piece of equipment that is used in LASIK eye surgery.

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