LL is trending on Twitter

Elon Musk should acquire Nuvasive as well lol

Quote from: Realistic on May 02, 2022, 01:45:21 PM

Quote from: ilovescience on May 02, 2022, 01:41:35 PM

The price for LL procedures in the future will never go down because of the nature of the surgery. The cost overall has been very steady for the last 10 years due to lack of skilled/motivated surgeons entering this field + the surgery itself is very difficult for the patient and surgeon so there aren't that many demand ( at most surgeons can do maybe 2-3 surgeries a day + patients are expected to do 6+ months of rigirous pt schedule).

Now unless there's some breakthrough that let LL to be done more easily/fast and allow patients to go back to their routine tasks in less than a month I would say expect the price to be increased steadily ( especially with newer medical tools like precice 2.0).

This was the same trend for corrective eye surgery back in the 70s/80s with RK where they used 8 sided blades that leave visible marks in your eye ( lot of pain, expensive/experimental procedure, months of vision complication, etc ) -> then PRK came along in the 90s where it removed many cons of RK, but there were still months of vision rehabilitation and required lot of surgeon intervention -> In the early 2000s LASIK just revolutionized the corrective eye surgery market by essentially removing all the cons of previous procedures and drastically lowers the complication period to less than 1 month -> Now in 2010+ there's SMILE which is basically the same as LASIK but removes the flap creation so it's safer/faster healing although it's more expensive.