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Patients completed a common vision test and Quality of Life Impact of Refractive Correction (QIRC) questionnaire, together with the surgical satisfaction, adverse symptoms subjective survey. Patients with preoperative corrected distance visual acuity and postoperative uncorrected distance visual acuity of 20\/20 or greater were included. Propensity score matching (PSM) was used to match the preoperative and postoperative spherical equivalent, age, and designed optical zones of the left and right eyes between the two groups.<\/jats:p>\n<\/jats:sec><jats:sec>\n<jats:title>Results<\/jats:title>\n<jats:p>Forty-nine patients were included in each group after PSM from 188 patients. No significant difference in the total QIRC score was found between the SMILE and FS-LASIK groups (45.89\u2009\u00b1\u20095.91 vs 45.09\u2009\u00b1\u20095.65, <jats:italic>p<\/jats:italic>\u2009=\u20090.492). There were no differences in surgical satisfaction between the groups (<jats:italic>p<\/jats:italic>\u2009=\u20090.178). Compared to the SMILE group, the FS-LASIK group had more glare (2.12\u2009\u00b1\u20092.25 vs 3.22\u2009\u00b1\u20092.54, <jats:italic>p<\/jats:italic>\u2009=\u20090.026) and severe dryness (1.80\u2009\u00b1\u20091.98 vs 2.79\u2009\u00b1\u20092.19, <jats:italic>p<\/jats:italic>\u2009=\u20090.021).<\/jats:p>\n<\/jats:sec><jats:sec>\n<jats:title>Conclusion<\/jats:title>\n<jats:p>Postoperative quality of life is similar after SMILE or FS-LASIK. 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