Is there a risk in choosing the cheapest clinic?
The risk is not that cheap treatment is bad. It is that an unusually low price usually means something has been left out, and the thing left out is often the assessment depth or the follow-up.
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- 22 September 2026
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The specific questions that expose this are whether corneal tomography is part of the assessment, who performs the surgery, and what is included after it. A clinic that answers those clearly is worth more than the difference in price.
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