Sir,

We welcome the fact that our paper has stimulated debate on pain relief in laser therapy and that we have received responses from Stanga and Muqit,1 and YiJun Hu.2 It became apparent during our 2006 survey of ophthalmic units across the United Kingdom that a small number of units had started using Pascal laser photocoagulation, and we reported that the respondents considered that this was improving the situation with regard to pain and compliance during the procedure. These comments were anecdotal and were reported in the paper. We noted in the conclusion that the results should be viewed with caution because of the nature of the surveys and that newer lasers were being introduced at the time of the survey.

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