Intraoperative patient experience and postoperative visual quality after SMILE and LASIK in a randomized, paired-eye, controlled study

• Main Authors: Damgaard, Iben B., Ang, Marcus, Htoon, Hla M., Mohamed Farook, Mehta, Jodhbir Singh
• Other Authors: School of Materials Science & Engineering
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: 2019
• Subjects: Engineering::Materials; Intraoperative Patient Experience; Postoperative Visual Quality
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/107003; http://hdl.handle.net/10220/49007
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

PURPOSE: To compare intraoperative and postoperative subjective patient experience after small incision lenticule extraction (SMILE) and femtosecond laser–assisted LASIK. METHODS: In a prospective, randomized, paired-eye, single-masked clinical trial at Singapore National Eye Centre, 70 patients wer...