From a trash compactor to SMILE 30 years of laser vision correction

CHICAGO — Innovation, teamwork and serendipity have led to the worldwide use of laser vision correction over the course of its three-decade existence, according to a speaker here.
“After 30 and a half years of laser vision correction in humans, how do we feel about it now? I think we’re just getting started,” Marguerite B. McDonald, MD, FACS, said during the keynote address of the Refractive Surgery Subspecialty Day preceding the American Academy of Ophthalmology annual meeting.
McDonald detailed the history of laser vision correction since Stephen Trokel, MD, published

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