Another procedure performed within the eye removes a targeted strip of the trabecular meshwork with a small tool.

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Your surgeon inserts the tool into the eye's drainage canal through a small incision at the edge of the cornea and removes the small section of trabecular meshwork.

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Using small instruments under an operating microscope, your surgeon creates an opening in the sclera the white of your eye and removes a small piece of eye tissue at the base of your cornea through which fluid drains from your eye (the trabecular meshwork).

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