The rate of blinding caused by high myopic maculopathy is high, vitrectomy is the most common treatment. However, the effectiveness of vitrectomy for high myopic patients who have serious posterior scleral staphyloma is not ideal. Recent years, posterior scleral reinforcement is used as a supplementary method with vitrectomy in clinical, treating for high myopic maculopathy. It achieves a positive curative effect especially in macular foveoschisis and macular hole cases. In this article, we introduced a review of history, current situation, material and surgery operand of scleral reinforcement. It also makes a further discussion of its prospects used in retina surgery.