New retinal tack designs: an analysis of retention forces in human scleral tissue.
Markus Schulze SchweringTheo OltrupKai Sinan RückheimThomas BendeKarl-Ulrich Bartz-SchmidtMartin Alexander LeitritzPublished in: Graefe's archive for clinical and experimental ophthalmology = Albrecht von Graefes Archiv fur klinische und experimentelle Ophthalmologie (2020)
The different tack designs altered the penetration and holding forces. The retention forces of the proposed peak design led to a significant increase in the retention forces that were more than twice as high as those in the original Heimann Model.