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.
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Goble, R., Natkunarajah, M. & Goldsmith, C. Reply to GW Aylward. Eye 19, 474 (2005). https://doi.org/10.1038/sj.eye.6701520
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