OSN New York and OSN New York Retina

NEW YORK — Both intrastromal and penetrating femtosecond incisions can be more precise, better centered and provide a higher percentage of patients with less than 0.5 D of manifest refractive astigmatism postoperatively when compared with their preoperative astigmatism, a speaker said here.

NEW YORK — New technology for disassembling the nucleus has the potential to improve the efficiency of phacoemulsification, according to a speaker here.

NEW YORK — Using an intraoperative aberrometer for IOL procedures can provide additional data for the refractive vergence formula and lead to better outcomes in complex and normal eyes, according to a speaker here.

NEW YORK ― At OSN New York 2017, Priyanka Sood, MD, shares pearls for optimizing visual outcomes with the Raindrop hydrogel corneal inlay (ReVision Optics) for the correction of presbyopia, such as the use of mitomycin C intraoperatively to reduce haze.

NEW YORK — An automated capsulotomy device creates round, centered capsulotomies that are as strong as or stronger than manual or femtosecond laser capsulotomy, according to a speaker here.

NEW YORK — At OSN New York 2017, Jennifer M. Loh, MD, shares tips for clinical management of patients who are unhappy with their presbyopia-correcting IOL results. The two main causes of unhappy patients are dry eye disease and refractive error, which can be identified and treated, she said.

NEW YORK ― At OSN New York 2017, Elizabeth Yeu, MD, shares pearls for achieving the best biometry in eyes that are unusually large or small.

NEW YORK ― At OSN New York 2017, William B. Trattler, MD, discusses a new disposable cataract surgery device called the miLoop (Iantech) that uses nitinol filament technology to perpendicularly encircle the nucleus and then slice through the cataract when the surgeon closes the loop.

NEW YORK ― At OSN New York 2017, Soosan Jacob, MS, FRCS, DNB, discusses her Waring Medal presentation on her innovative surgical technique she dubbed Presbyopic Allogenic Refractive Lenticule, or PEARL, in which she implants the lenticule obtained from the SMILE procedure in the patient’s nondominant eye to correct presbyopia.

At the OSN New York meeting, P. Dee G. Stephenson, MD, FACS. ABES, FSEE, reviews the history and future of LRIs.