Lasik

A quick look at ChatGPT tells me that there have been few reports of “late lifting” after LASIK.

CHICAGO — In this Healio Video Perspective from the AAO meeting, AnnMarie Hipsley, DPT, PhD, founder and CEO of Ace Vision Group, discusses the benefits of laser scleral microporation, or LSM.

When we think of robotic eye surgery, we may mistakenly picture futuristic machines taking over while human ophthalmologists are left out.

A number of key opinion leaders submit blogs to Healio Optometry, and two of our most popular bloggers are Scott Edmonds, OD, FAAO, and Oliver Kuhn-Wilken, OD. Here are their top posts over the past year.

“Every time I am tempted to buy some dopey thing, I hear my late father’s voice, ‘Do you really need that?’”

Since its inception in 1989, LASIK has been at the top of the list in our armamentarium of refractive surgeries.

NEW YORK — In this Healio Video Perspective from OSN New York, George O. Waring IV, MD, FACS, discusses the benefits of the EVO ICL from STAAR Surgical.

CHICAGO — In this Healio Video Perspective from the AAO meeting, George O. Waring IV, MD, FACS, presents 9-month clinical data on the Teneo laser from Bausch + Lomb for the treatment of myopia and myopic astigmatism with LASIK.

CHICAGO — A number of preoperative and perioperative variables may predict ocular pain following refractive surgery, according to a speaker here.

Post-refractive ectasia occurs very rarely, in only about one out of every 10,000 cases of refractive surgery, or 0.09% of LASIK procedures, 0.02% of PRK procedures and 0.01% of SMILE procedures, according to Moshirfar and colleagues.