VIDEO: SMILE may help revamp trust in corneal surgery for hyperopia

ByDan Reinstein, MD

ByMichela Cimberle

Fact checked byChristine Klimanskis, ELS

BARCELONA, Spain — In this Healio Video Perspective from the European Society of Cataract and Refractive Surgeons meeting, Dan Z. Reinstein, MD, speaks about hyperopic SMILE with the VisuMax 800 excimer laser from Carl Zeiss Meditec.

Reinstein has been an advocate of SMILE for hyperopia since the procedure’s inception. He discussed difficulties and errors that have driven surgeons to abandon hyperopic laser surgery, but he believes that SMILE will help them reconsider this option.

“We now have a better — from the dry eye standpoint, from the meibomian gland dysfunction standpoint — procedure to offer for hyperopia on the cornea than we had before,” he said.

Published by:

Sources/Disclosures

Collapse

Source:

Reinstein DZ. Back to the cornea for hyperopia! Lenticule extraction for hyperopic patients. Presented at: European Society of Cataract and Refractive Surgeons meeting; Sept. 6-10, 2024; Barcelona, Spain.

Disclosures: Reinstein reports consulting for Carl Zeiss Meditec and CSO and having developed the ArcScan technology.

European Society of Cataract and Refractive Surgeons Meeting

Read more

VIDEO: SMILE may help revamp trust in corneal surgery for hyperopia

Related Content