Refractive Surgery News

If people with vision correction needs learned one thing during the COVID-19 pandemic, it was that masks and glasses do not mix.

I use the Ziemer CrystalLine femtosecond laser system to make my LASIK flaps because I think femto is the safest and most effective way to make those flaps.

The top five procedures performed by United States ophthalmologists are:

Patients younger than 40 years with non-presbyopic hyperopia had good visual outcomes after refractive lens exchange with trifocal IOL implantation, according to a study published in the Journal of Refractive Surgery.

The first few cases with a new IOL are always exciting.

There are a couple of different considerations when putting an advanced technology lens in a patient who has at least signs of macular degeneration vs. more advanced changes in the retina.

Welcome to another edition of CEDARS/ASPENS Debates. CEDARS/ASPENS is a society of cornea, cataract and refractive surgery specialists, here to discuss some of the latest hot topics in ophthalmology.

For almost 20 years now, we have been using presbyopia-correcting lens implants. But an important caveat that came with all of them is that they can only be used safely in eyes with near-perfect visual potential.

Using satellite imaging techniques, researchers were able to establish an association between green space exposure at school and the change in school-specific myopia prevalence.

LAS VEGAS — In this Healio Video Perspective from the ASCRS meeting, Shamik Bafna, MD, discusses the evolution of laser vision correction in the United States.