The Power of Smile Eye Surgery: Candace’s Story

When patients ask me whether SMILE eye surgery is worth it, I don’t answer with a brochure. I answer with a story about one of my first SMILE patients, a member of our own team who was getting married in just a few weeks. She’d spent years heavily dependent on glasses and contacts, and she…

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SMILE Eye Surgery Cost: What to Expect and How to Pay for It

Cost is one of the first questions patients ask. The truth is that the price of SMILE varies depending on where you live, the technology your surgeon uses, what’s included in the fee, and a handful of other factors that make any number you find online more of a starting point than a real estimate….

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Friends Don’t Let Friends Surf in Contacts

What feels like a lifetime ago, the pandemic was raging on and half my friends from college had taken advantage of work from home to move from Silicon Valley to Hawaii. Naturally, they all, along with everyone else with access, took up surfing as a safe-ish (at least from respiratory viruses) social activity. I received…

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