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centre dedicated to the treatment of cataracts and refractive surgery, the Gimbel Eye Centre. It was around this time that he perfected the continuous curvilinear capsulorhexis (CCC), and the divide and conquer nucleofractis techniques, two techniques currently employed in small incision cataract
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implantation during cataract surgery was a topic of much controversy at the time. These two novel techniques had a profound influence on Gimbel, who was among the first ophthalmologists in
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technique in which peripheral corneal incisions are carefully placed to correct refractive errors. That same year he founded an
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