I think...$5,500 in 2005? Probably not relevant to today's prices. I would imagine the equipment has made things a bit safer and easier, which would probably ... Well I'm sure it wouldn't drop the price because who ever does that? But it probably kept it from rising too much.

$6.5k AUD 3 years ago for lasik. Prk would have been 5k. I wouldn't be worried about mistakes, the opthamologist does the procedure like 15 times a week and the laser machine is tracking your eye movement at 1kHz. Mistakes are almost unheard of. Where your issue may lie is if your eye is physically not good for the surgery, like if your prescription is too strong or cornea too thin. They do a bunch of tests and discuss what's right for you.