NEW YORK — Refractive results and corneal integrity with small incision lenticule extraction are on par with those of LASIK, according to speaker here who recounted his experience with the minimally invasive procedure.
“I am convinced that femtosecond lenticule extraction can compete commercially,” John F. Doane, MD, FACS, said at OSN New York 2017. “Surgery is quick, recovery is quick, there are no flap issues, and essentially from a refractive standpoint [of] metrics, SMILE is equal to LASIK.”
There is about a 10-fold decrease in incision chord length created
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