Lasik

NEW ORLEANS — A move away from LASIK may occur in the future, one expert said during a presentation at Refractive Surgery Subspecialty Day at the American Academy of Ophthalmology meeting.

Patients who underwent refractive surgery with the iDesign platform had better uncorrected distance vision and a better chance of achieving 20/20 vision compared with those who underwent treatment with the WaveScan system.

There were 190,911 laser vision correction procedures performed in the third quarter of 2021, marking a 48% year-to-date increase over 2020, according to a press release from the Refractive Surgery Council.

Four-year results in a group of patients treated with topography-guided LASIK in one eye and SMILE in the contralateral eye showed that LASIK provides superior visual outcomes.

Patient candidates may be similar, but there are situations in which SMILE or LASIK might be better suited than the other procedure, according to a presentation at the Real World Ophthalmology meeting.

Noninvasive or minimally invasive approaches may be the solution for presbyopia before the onset of age-related cataract and a way to address the increasing need to perform close-range tasks.

With the forthcoming FDA approval and commercialization of eye drops that improve near vision, the presbyopia market is on the cusp of a pharmaceutical revolution.

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.

LAS VEGAS — In this Healio Video Perspective from the ASCRS meeting, Mark C. Lobanoff, MD, discusses his presentation investigating the use of Phorcides software to plan Contoura topography-guided LASIK procedures.

Laser vision correction procedures increased by almost 200% in the second quarter of 2021 compared with the same period in 2020, according to a press release from the Refractive Surgery Council.