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SMILE could offer unique benefits to military population
LOS ANGELES — Small incision lenticule extraction has the potential for minimal disruption to the ocular surface, less energy delivered to corneal tissue and less damage to corneal tissue, which means it may offer more benefits to the Department of Defense than the gold standard of surface ablation, according to a speaker here.“It is a single technology-based procedure where the one laser platform does everything for you. It is a single-step procedure, so all the incisions and the dissections are accomplished during one patient interface,” Mark F. Torres, MD, said (Read more...)