Q: Dear Kerafriends, Jim is right (as always) – I’m really not feeling safe in offering LASIK, as besides the skewed axis seen on axial curvature maps and the PTA quite near 40%, her Pentacam shows some suspect parameters, mainly: ART max < 386 and BAD-D > 1,22 – Sandra, you can find some interesting […]
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Hi Kamran Pls see below On Jun 13, 2015, at 11:17 AM, Kamran wrote: Hi Emil I hope you are doing well. I wanted to ask you a question in regards to a comment that you had made about slightly overcorrecting younger myopic patients who undergo refractive surgery (regardless of ASA/PRK, LASIK, etc). You had
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Q: I will put my $0.02 here for what it’s worth. In theory the structural integrity from SMILE should be better but independent in vivo research is needed. Dan Reinstein is a consultant for Zeiss. SMILE has a lot of attractive features but sadly my evaluation from peers who used it and abandoned it is
Dr. Chynn wrote in bold to a question from another doctor: Emil/KeraNetters Tangent from the December discussion on PTK in corneal scarring: I have a 24yo with history of traumatic recurrent erosion in the left eye. Had anterior micropuncture performed by another surgeon this past December but has started to re-erode. He wants to have
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