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When the tissue temperature drops to below 40°C, these bonds can reunite with possible rearrangement of the matrix but without any cellular damage [ 16 ] . Under this consideration the thermal contact of the 49°C preheated PALM gel onto the bare corneal stroma for the in situ molding of the lenticule, would not be expected to induce any irreversible changes of the corneal collagen chains.
1) the mixture for the preparation of the gel is conditioned so that its solid form to have the same ablation to that of the cornea [ 13 ] . The full removal of the lenticule with photoablation in PTK mode would be expected to reproduce the lenticule's upper surface onto the surface of the cornea.
Instillation of 100 μm of the preheated liquid solution [ 18 ] on the corneal surface requires 4 minutes for the lenticule to acquire the mechanical stiffness required to withstand the stress induced by the lens removal, at room temperature of 25°C.
When still in liquid form the gel can be molded by means of a rigid contact lens to form a stable lenticule that its upper surface will reproduce the inner surface of the molding lens.
An effective amount of fluorescein in the lenticule mixture provides the surgeon visual feedback for the ablation progress.