We have previously reported on the increasing use of femtosecond lasers to perform LASIK surgery ^[1].

Last month’s issue of the American Journal of Ophthalmology reported on research intended to compare the outcomes of LASIK surgery performed with a femtosecond laser vs a mechanical microkeratome for the correction of low to moderate hyperopia.

Spanish researchers studied patients who had undergone LASIK to correct their hyperopia using the 60-kHz IntraLase femtosecond laser with age- and refraction-matched patients on whom the Moria M2 microkeratome was used.

The outcome? Hyperopic LASIK performed with the IntraLase femtosecond laser seemed to achieve better refractive results 3 months after the surgery compared to the M2 microkeratome, without significant differences in safety between both procedures.

Click here ^[2] to access the abstract (registration required for full article).