In April 1983, first extracapsular cataract surgery and lens implantation (Intraocular Lens Fitting) in Turkey,

 

In 1989 designing 'Yilmaz Intraocular Lens', which is produce by the German firm Moerscher,

 

First Skleroplasty surgery (stopping myopia),

 

First Thermocoagulation treatment for farsightedness,

 

First Phakic IOL impantation for high myopia,

 

First Radial keratotomy in the world for keratoconus patients,

 

First Keratoplasty using motor trepan in Turkey,

 

LASEK operation inthe treatment of myopia in 2000, 

 

Invention of YILMAZ spatula (Geuder Company Catalog No. 1G-S 01138 Yılmaz Lasek Epi-Peeler) used in LASEK operations in 2002,

 

Over 200 domestic and international publications and sessions presidency,

 

In 2000 the first time in a live broadcast (live surgery in meeting) from Turkey and the Turkish Republic of Cataract Tbilisi,

 

In 1996, the establishment of Turkey's first private eye hospital,

 

Helping the Ministry of Health to establish the first and only eye hospital and the first head of this hospital,

 

The world's first Acufocus - Kamra surgery (presbyopia, near visual impairment),

 

The first iStent operation in the world (in glaucoma treatment),

 

The first Lasik Extra surgery in the world,

 

First Keraflex operation in the world,

 

The first Aquesys (Xen) surgery in the world (in glaucoma treatment),

 

The world's first Allotex surgery (in the treatment of near vision).