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This month, Brazil’s top Ophthalmology magazine, Oftalmologica Em Foco, features ELZA’s Prof. Hafezi and Dr. Torres-Netto exploring the story of how CXL at the slit lamp is becoming a reality.
Farhad Hafezi was interviewed during ESCRS 2019, held in Paris, France, by Touch Medical Media on how CXL is performed at the slit lamp.
A lot has been said about SMILE, some of which has been about how, in theory, corneas treated with SMILE should be biomechanically stronger than LASIK-treated corneas (more of the stronger anterior stroma is left intact compared with physically cutting a flap there in LASIK and lifting it to perform ablation of the stroma underneath). But what about PRK? This is ablation of the anterior stroma after having just removed the epithelial cells above it, on the surface of the cornea. So the question remains: which is stronger? PRK or SMILE? The short answer is that PRK is stronger.
I fly. A lot. To educate, to inform, to train scientists and surgeons in the latest advances in cross-linking. Yes, I worry about my carbon footprint. Yes, I miss my family when I’m gone. But it’s important that it’s done, and I explain in this blog post exactly why that’s true.
EyeWorld’s Jonathan Kahn interviews Farhad Hafezi on a new method that might improve the efficacy of corneal cross-linking for the treatment of corneal ectasias like #keratoconus: cooling the cornea!
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