Most patients travel quite a long way for the best surgeons. There's one in Montreal, Canada, a couple in the USA, and most of the top surgeons (usually only the top two are referred to, though) are in Thailand. The latter pioneered the next generation technique, while the former typically use a technique used for decades. It's also expensive. When one accounts for travel, hotel, food, extra medical supplies, and the surgical fees, we're talking $18,000 for a good Thai surgeon, and even more for a Canadian or American one. (Even though the Thai surgeons are often considered superior, the cost of living is cheaper, which explains the cheaper cost. But one has to travel a much further distance, to -- for a North American -- a country much more foreign than, for a Canadian, the USA. [...]
