Clinical Study

Corneal Backscatter Analysis by In Vivo Confocal Microscopy: Fellow Eye Comparison of Small Incision Lenticule Extraction and Femtosecond Laser-Assisted LASIK

Table 7

Number of reflective particles.

SMILE ( )Femto-LASIK ( )P
Mean (µm) ± SDMean (µm) ± SD

Week 1 0.136
Month 1 0.273
Month 3 0.110
Month 6 0.761

Independent samples t-test.
n: number of eyes; µm: micrometer; SD: standard deviation.