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September 1, 2015Journal of Refractive Surgery

Fellow Eye Comparison of Nerve Fiber Regeneration After SMILE and Femtosecond Laser-assisted LASIK: A Confocal Microscopy Study

Alper Ağca Kadir İlker Çankaya İhsan Yılmaz Yusuf Yıldırım Dilek Yaşa Onur Ölçücü Ali Demircan Ahmet Demirok Ömer Yılmaz

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Abstract

Eyes treated with SMILE have a higher density of subbasal nerve fibers than eyes treated with FS-LASIK in the early postoperative period (1 week to 3 months) but the two procedures are equivalent by 6 months postoperatively.

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synapsesocial.com/papers/69daaafb615cc0c8eaa3ca28 https://doi.org/10.3928/1081597x-20150820-04

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