Four-year results in a group of patients treated with topography-guided LASIK in one eye and SMILE in the contralateral eye showed that LASIK provides superior visual outcomes.
“This is likely due to the eye tracking, cyclorotation compensation and active centration control in the LASIK technology,” A. John Kanellopoulos, MD, said at the European Society of Cataract and Refractive Surgeons meeting.
Several data analyses were published since the beginning of the study. In a 2019 paper, anterior segment OCT epithelial mapping showed significant epithelial remodeling with both