ZEISS recently announced Fort Belvoir Community Hospital in Virginia is the first U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) medical facility to perform the ReLEx® SMILE laser vision correction procedure.
Following the recent U.S. FDA approval of ReLEx SMILE for the treatment of myopia, all three branches of the DoD — the Army, the Navy and the Air Force — reportedly have plans to offer SMILE for eligible service members. This will reportedly include an extensive evaluation of SMILE to correct myopia and astigmatism under some of the most visually demanding conditions. According to ZEISS, the DoD has an expansive refractive surgery program with over 20 dedicated centers around the world which performed over 40,000 refractive surgery procedures last year.
ReLEx SMILE is reportedly a minimally-invasive approach to myopia correction that is only available on the VisuMax® femtosecond laser from ZEISS. According to ZEISS, over 700,000 SMILE procedures have been performed internationally since its introduction in 2011 with over 1,000 surgeons regularly performing the procedure.
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