About Ridgeline
One rule: the exam decides.
Ridgeline is an independent practice in Salt Lake City, open since 2011. We are not part of a chain, we do not pay for “deal” listings, and nobody here earns a commission for booking surgery.
The map comes first. Every conversation about surgery starts with a picture like this one of your own cornea. (Illustration.)
Our story
Built by a surgeon who was tired of the sales calendar
Dr. Maren Holt spent her early career at a busy laser center where the consult room had a monthly quota. She saw people booked for LASIK who would have done better with PRK, and others who should have been told to wait a year.
She opened Ridgeline with one laser suite and a simple promise: the screening is free, it measures everything, and the answer can be no. Some people leave without a surgery date. Many of them come back later, or send a friend.
As the practice grew, cataract, lens and glaucoma care joined, along with a dry eye clinic, because so many people needed their tears treated before anyone talked about lasers.
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The exam decides, not the ad
Your free screening measures your eyes and a surgeon reads the results with you. Some people hear that laser surgery is not right for them. We say so plainly, and we explain what might fit instead.
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Prices per eye, in writing
Every procedure has a published range per eye. After your screening you get a written quote for your eyes, with follow-up visits for the first year included.
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Risks on page one
Dry eye, halos, glare and the chance of a touch-up are part of the first conversation, not the consent form. You decide with the full picture.
Since 2011
How the practice grew
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2011
Dr. Holt opens Ridgeline with one laser suite and a free screening.
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2015
PRK added for people with thinner corneas and active careers.
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2019
Dr. Brandt joins; cataract, lens exchange and glaucoma care begin.
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2022
SMILE and ICL added for nearsighted and high-prescription patients.
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2024
The dry eye clinic opens, after years of treating it before surgery.
The team
Four people you will get to know
The no policy
“If a screening ends with me saying no, the screening worked.”
Dr. Maren Holt, founder
Free screening
Find out what fits your eyes.
A free 90-minute screening, a surgeon who reads the results with you, and a written quote per eye if surgery makes sense. If it does not, we will tell you that too.