PUBLICATION EXCLUSIVE: Refractive surgeons look to SMILE into the new year

Premium surgeons are embarking upon the new year with new refractive surgery procedures recently approved by the FDA, such as the Raindrop corneal inlay from ReVision Optics. Even more exciting is the FDA approval of the VisuMax small incision lenticule extraction procedure from Carl Zeiss Meditec for reduction or elimination of myopia from –1 D to –8 D, with 0.5 D cylinder or less and manifest refraction spherical equivalent of –8.25 D in the eye to be treated in patients who are 22 years of age or older with documentation (Read more...)

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