Scleral buckling with soft silicone sponge and lamellar scleral dissection.
One hundred cases of primary, nontraumatic, rhegmatogenous retinal separation were operated upon using  1/2 thickness 7.5 mp Silastic silicone sponge as a circumferential implant without an encircling element or suture tension. The use of this method has given 100% successful anatomical reattachment of the retina after a follow-up of 8 months to 3 1/2 years.
D003452:Cryosurgery; D003972:Diathermy; D006801:Humans; D012163:Retinal Detachment / Q000601:surgery*; D012591:Scleral Buckling / Q000379:methods*; D012826:Silicone Elastomers
D012826:Silicone Elastomers