Dubai eye surgery price index
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Every figure here comes from a named clinic's own published price, a written quote, or a figure confirmed by phone, read within the last 180 days. A quarter is shown with its median, range and the number of clinics behind it; a change is shown only when both quarters have at least three clinics.
The index is built from clinic prices we have checked, and none has been collected yet. It will fill in procedure by procedure as prices are read and recorded, and each quarter will carry the number of clinics behind it. We are not publishing an estimate to fill the table.
What moves the price of laser eye surgery is still the useful page in the meantime, and it needs no figures to be true.
Method
A row enters the index only when it comes from a named clinic and we have read it ourselves: the clinic's own price page, a written quote, or a figure confirmed by phone. Each row records the date it was read, the page or quote it came from, and what that wording said the price includes and excludes.
Prices are normalised to both eyes before any comparison, because clinics quote on different bases and a per-eye figure beside a both-eyes one is off by a factor of two. One clinic contributes one figure — its most recent — so a clinic that repriced does not count twice. The window is 180 days: a price older than that stops being published rather than being carried forward.
A median and range are published only with at least 3 clinics behind them. Below that, the row is not shown as a range, and a quarter-on-quarter change is withheld because two quotes moving is not a trend. A consultation is charged for the visit, not for each eye, and is treated as the whole appointment.
The index covers Dubai only. Nothing here has been verified in Abu Dhabi, Sharjah or the other emirates, and a figure from one emirate is not a figure for another.
It is not a price list, a quote, or a prediction of what you will pay. Eyes differ, clinics include different things, and the figure that matters is the one written on a quote after an assessment. The index shows what named clinics have published, how many of them, and when we last checked — nothing more.