epilasekour experience unlabelled the aim of this study is to find advantages of alcohol assisted epithelial flap creation before surface excimerlaser refractive ablationmethods one hundred eyes undergoing epilasek with 20 alcohol in the beginning of procedure mean preoperative spherical equivalent was 344 d 18 andfrom 10 to 80 dspectaclecorrected visual acuity was from 10 to 08 in 100 eyes all epithelial separations were performed with the lasitome gebauer in the beginning of operation was used 20 alcohol for 15 secondresults the mean uncorrected visual acuity at 1 month after operation was from 10 to 08 in 92 eyes after 12 months the mean spherical equivalent was 0262 015d from 050 to 075d at 12 months no haze was observedconclusion our clinical results confirmed that using 20 alcohol or epilasek is contribution to refractive excimer surgery epilasek enhances creation and separation of epithelial flap leaves epithelial basal membrane attached to bowmans layer and though creates optimal conditions for excimer laser surface ablation