Surgery & Medical Devices · Recorded milestone
LASIK eye surgery
Recorded year1990
Ioannis Pallikaris reshapes the cornea under a thin flap with an excimer laser, later freeing millions from glasses.
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Led to
No connections of this kind are recorded.
Sources & evidence
Dataset updated 2026-10-18. This individual record has not been separately re-reviewed.