PRK yields good results as enhancement after SMILE

Martin Dirisamer
LISBON, Portugal — PRK enhancement after small incision lenticule extraction yields good results, according to a study presented here.
“SMILE (Carl Zeiss Meditec) is known to have a lower regression rate than LASIK, but a recent publication has shown a rate of approximately 0.5 D after 5 years, with enhancement in 2.1% and 2.9% of the cases at 1 and 2 years,” Martin Dirisamer, MD, PhD, FEBO, said at the European Society of Cataract and Refractive Surgeons meeting.
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