Slit Lamp Techniques - Smoothing a Small Gap

This video shows a small gap or gutter from the 5-7 o'clock position. Utilizing the base of a wet merocel it is easily closed. While perhaps not responsible for a line of best corrected vision, it may lead to improved visual quality / contrast sensitivity, etc. When this technique is not utilized, the gutter will quickly fill in with epithelium. This may not create an appearance of striae but may be responsible for the "edematous (peau de orange/beaten metal) appearance" sometimes seen in the early post-op period.

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• Cory Lessner
• Epithelial Ingrowth
• Slit Lamp Techniques
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• Slit Lamp Refinements
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• Striae Removal
• Flap Correction
• LASIK Enhancement
• EI
• Flap Interface
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• Macrostriae
• Microstriae
• Sands of the Sahara
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