Patients who underwent small incision lenticule extraction had a lower incidence of post-refractive surgery dry eye disease when compared with patients who underwent LASIK surgery, according to recent ...

Christenbury Eye Center in Charlotte, N.C., performed the first flapless vision correction procedure using the SMILE LASIK technique with the Zeiss laser. 1. The procedure is designed to correct ...

The wavelight plus version of LASIK creates a 3-D digital model of the eye undergoing correction, based on more than 100,000 ...

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TAMPA, Fla. – Around 10 million Americans have had Lasik surgery to correct their vision since it was FDA approved 20 years ago. Now a lesser-known vision correction procedure is offering a smaller ...

ClearSight LASIK, a LASIK clinic based in Oklahoma City, OK, recently published an article about the SMILE procedure. The article explains what the procedure entails and what some of its benefits are.

Pioneer surgeon Dr Natasha Lim is among the first in Singapore to offer Smooth Incision Lenticular Keratomileusis (SILK) procedure in their clinics. Dr. Natasha Tan, one of Singapore’s pioneer ...

HOUSTON (KTRK) -- For the first time in more than a decade, the FDA has approved a new type of laser eye surgery. SMILE - short for Small Incision Lenticule Extraction - is an innovative, new method ...

Despite its popularity and safety track record, laser in situ keratomileusis (LASIK) remains associated with the rare but significant complication of corneal ectasia. One theoretical advantage of ...

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