One of the biggest decisions you will make after deciding to correct your vision surgically if which surgeon to chose How do you determine who is the best qualified to perform your vision correction?

Some of the criteria you will want to evaluate includes:

How many procedures has he performed?
Is the surgeon an expert in the field?

  • Does he limit his practice to refractive surgery
  • Has he treated family and friends
  • Does he treat professional athletes
  • How long has he been utilizing the excimer laser
  • Does he lecture to other doctors on the subject of refractive surgery
  • Has he trained other doctors to do the procedure
  • Has he lectured internationally
  • Does he utilize the most advanced and up to day technology

Does the surgeon offer all current refractive options?

  • PRK
  • PRK with AK
  • LASIK
  • IntraLase®
  • CustomWave
  • Conductive Keratoplasty
  • Does the surgeon and staff provide complete information to you and answer all of your questions regarding refractive surgery?

    At Maida CustomVision, over 12,000 refractive procedures have been performed. We were one of the first in Florida to perform the ALL-LASER Custom LASIK procedure. Dr. Maida had on of the first Summit Excimer lasers in the world in 1989. Dr. Maida set-up the first excimer laser clinics in Columbia, Peru and Ecuador in 1993-1994 and trained hundreds of doctors on its use. Dr. Maida limits his practice to refractive surgery and has treated his daughter, best fiends, staff, and many professional athletes. He himself has had LASIK.