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Materials and Methods: From 2020 to 2022, 35 participants with unilateral RCEs voluntarily enrolled. Here, 35 eyes of 35 patients were treated with low-temperature plasma ablation (coblation). All surgeries were performed by the same doctor (X.H.). The coblation went back and forth over the entire erosion area around five times for about five minutes. After the operation, patients were scheduled for follow-up visits at the outpatient clinic after 1 month, 3 months, 6 months, and 12 months, and at the end of the trial. During every visit, each patient underwent an evaluation of their ocular symptoms utilizing the following: pain score, intraocular pressure, slit lamp biomicroscopic examination, dry eye analysis, corneal topography, and corneal in vivo confocal microscopy (IVCM). Results: The mean follow-up time was 12.4 \u00b1 6.1 months, ranging from 6 to 29 months. Of the 35 patients who had low-temperature plasma ablation, 32 eyes (91.43%) were completely symptom-free and three (8.57%) eyes had repeated episodes of recurrent corneal erosions after the surgery, at 3, 10, and 12 months, respectively. The typical RCE morphologic abnormalities observed in IVCM included the deformation and relaxation of the corneal epithelium, disorganized stromal fibers, reduced nerve fiber density, and disordered organization. After low-temperature plasma ablation, the loose cysts disappeared, and the epithelium became solid and tight. There was no obvious difference in the intraocular pressure (p = 0.090) or corneal astigmatism (p = 0.175) before and after treatment. The mean pain score decreased significantly, with a preoperative score of 7.7 \u00b1 2.4 and postoperative score of 1.1 \u00b1 1.8 (p &lt; 0.001). The mean corneal thickness decreased from 562.6 \u00b1 42.2 mm to 549.6 \u00b1 26.9 mm (p = 0.031). The mean non-invasive keratograph tear meniscus height (NIKTMH) decreased from 0.210 \u00b1 0.054 mm to 0.208 \u00b1 0.045 mm (p = 0.001), and the mean TBUT decreased from 6.191 \u00b1 2.811 s to 5.815 \u00b1 2.802 s (p &lt; 0.001), which manifested as a slight worsening of dry eyes. In one case, the patient\u2019s corneal astigmatism became more severe, which may be related to the high instantaneous energy when the operation did not flush in a timely manner, and it was recovered after 6 months. 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