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Reported Advantages of SBK Compared to conventional LASIK
• Less weakening of corneal biomechanics, less risk of ectasia, better stability.
• Faster visual recovery.
• Better quality of vision: fewer higher order aberrations, better contrast sensitivity.
• Fewer complications, less glare, fewer halos.
• Less incidence of postoperative dry eye.
• Reduced loss of corneal sensitivity.
• Greater flap thickness predicatibility.
• Ability to treat more patients, and higher levels of myopia.
• Can treat thinner corneas.
• Reduced enhancement rate.
Planar, Predictable Flaps and Stromal Beds of Unrivaled Smoothness
• Thin flaps with planar architecture.
• Beveled edges.
• Customized diameters.
• Unrivalled bed smoothness.
• Acuracy and predictability equivalent to Femto SBK.
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SBK without Femtosecond Laser: is it possible?
L. Felipe Verajano, MD (Popayan - Colombia)
Before presenting his own datas at the last 2009 ISRS/AAO Refractive Subspecialty Day in San Francisco, Luis Felipe Vejarano, MD (Popayan, Colombia) briefly summarized the results obtained in recent worldwide studies with the One Use-PlusSBK microkeratome . He also evaluated the flap architecture and edge angle created by the One Use-Plus SBK. Using anterior segment OCT technology, he demonstrated flap planarity in several axes, with the flap interface being always parallel to Bowman’s membrane. Dr. Vejarano concluded that Sub Bowman’s Keratomileusis is easily performed using the One Use-Plus SBK microkeratome. He stated that there is no need to use a femtosecond laser for thin-flap LASIK, because flaps created by latest Moria microkeratome are highly predictable and consistent in terms of thickness, planarity and size, and that using the device produces excellent visual outcomes. Get the whole story here...
Keep your LASIK in mechanical microkeratome
Jame Lewis, MD (Elkins Parks, PA - USA)
"Click-Free LASIK": have you already heard of a SBK procedure without any click-fees? compared to elevated cost associated of the routinely use of a femtosecond laser. In addition of that cost point of view, Dr. Lewis highlighted during the AAO 2009 Refractive Subspecialty Day the efficacy of the Moria One Use-Plus SBK microkeratome to create 100-micron flaps with a high degree of accuracy, predictability and reproducibility. AS-OCT pictures show the perfect architecture of mechanically created sub-Bowman's flaps. Get the whole story here...
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on sub Bowman's keratomileusis SBK
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