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Asia comes to the forefront with 3-D surgery
SINGAPORE — Housing the only two locations in the world where 3-D surgery is possible, Asia is leading the way in this ophthalmic innovation, according to physicians here. Two surgeons demonstrated the technology by performing the world’s first 3-D surgeries here during the Asia-Pacific Academy of Ophthalmology meeting.
Akitoshi Yoshida, MD, performed an internal limiting membrane peel, and Ong Sze Guan, MD, performed phacoemulsification.
Asahikawa Medical College in Japan and Singapore National Eye Center are the two institutions where 3-D surgery is being explored, Ronald Yeoh, MD, told attendees.
During the demonstrations, audience members were equipped with 3-D viewing glasses, with one tinted red lens and one tinted blue lens. As a result of television technology advances, including flat-screen and plasma screen technologies, audience members noted how “real” the viewing experience felt.
Kensaku Miyake, MD, emphasized the 3-D technology when he delivered the Charles D. Kelman Innovator’s Lecture at this year’s American Society of Cataract and Refractive Surgery meeting.