Sir,

I would like to thank Bill Aylward and Catey Bunce for their helpful comments. Our study was a small clinical study which showed that noncontact slit-lamp examination was less reliable in my hands when compared to indirect ophthalmoscopy with scleral indentation in identifying retinal tears. I believe that peripheral retinal examination is enhanced by scleral indentation. In another surgeon's hands things may be different and I await the study, with or without statistical analysis, which will take an alternative point of view.