# LASIK and Surgical Co-Management in Phoenix

Co-management means your optometrist handles the assessment before surgery and the care afterwards, while a surgeon performs the procedure. It keeps your follow up local and your advice independent of who profits from the operation.

Refractive surgery advice is worth more when it comes from someone who does not earn a fee from you having it. This practice does not perform surgery. What it provides is the assessment that establishes whether you are a genuine candidate, a referral to a surgeon when you are, and the follow up care afterwards.

That structure has a practical advantage as well as an ethical one. Post operative visits happen locally rather than requiring repeated trips to a surgical centre, and they happen with an optometrist who has your history and your pre operative measurements on file.

It also means the honest answer is available. A substantial proportion of people who want LASIK are not good candidates, whether because of corneal thickness, dry eye, prescription stability or age. Being told that clearly, along with what the realistic alternatives are, is more useful than being sold a procedure.

## Pages in this section

- [Am I a LASIK Candidate?](https://eyedoctorphoenixaz.com/lasik-co-management/am-i-a-lasik-candidate)
- [Pre-Operative Assessment](https://eyedoctorphoenixaz.com/lasik-co-management/pre-operative-assessment)
- [Post-Operative Care](https://eyedoctorphoenixaz.com/lasik-co-management/post-operative-care)
- [Cataract Surgery Co-Management](https://eyedoctorphoenixaz.com/lasik-co-management/cataract-surgery-co-management)
- [LASIK Alternatives](https://eyedoctorphoenixaz.com/lasik-co-management/lasik-alternatives)
- [What LASIK Does Not Fix](https://eyedoctorphoenixaz.com/lasik-co-management/what-lasik-does-not-fix)


## Questions and answers
**Do you perform LASIK here?**

No. Surgery is performed by an ophthalmic surgeon. This practice provides candidacy assessment, referral, and pre and post operative care.

**Why does co-management matter?**

Your follow up happens locally with the optometrist who holds your history, and the candidacy advice comes from someone with no financial stake in whether you have the procedure.

**Who co-manages surgery here?**

Dr Hao Nguyen and Dr Callie Sincennes both co-manage refractive and cataract surgery.

**What if I am not a candidate?**

You get told plainly and the alternatives get discussed. Ortho-K in particular suits many people whom surgery rules out, because thin corneas are rarely a barrier to overnight lenses.

---## About this practice
Arizona's Vision Eye Care Center, 15215 S 48th St Ste 180, Phoenix, AZ 85044.
Phone (480) 706-3937. Monday to Thursday 9:00 AM to 6:00 PM, Friday 8:00 AM to 5:00 PM. Closed Saturday and Sunday.
Independent optometry practice, founded 1994. One location. Does not perform refractive or cataract surgery.
This site publishes no star rating and no review count, because the figures across the practice's own properties contradict one another and cannot be verified.
This page is general information, not medical advice.