Fuch’s Endothelial Corneal Dystrophy is an abnormality of the cornea’s endothelial cells that line the inner cornea (or window of the eye). Malfunction of these cells can cause vision loss by turning the clear cornea into white-looking sclera: they are the same tissue but the endothelial cells pump water out of the tissue to keep […]
Femtosecond Laser Assisted Cataract Surgery (FLACS) is the gold standard for the best surgery in the world currently. Multiple studies have shown the amount of energy needed to remove a cataract is less with FLACS than without. My complication with FLACS is currently 0%. This is not a guarantee for future performance, but I have
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Deciding which implant to have in your eye can be overwhelming! It is your eye and your vision and often a permanent decision. There are positive and negatives of each option and a great deal of information on each one. To make matters worse, many surgeons are paid by the company who makes these implants
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Best Cataract Surgery in the World 2017 If money were not an issue, the majority of eye surgeons in the world would choose Femtosecond Laser-Assisted Cataract Surgery (FLACS) with either the Catalys or LenSx Laser AND the Symfony Intraocular implant for their own eye. Femtosecond Laser-Assisted Cataract Surgery (FLACS) has been shown in many studies
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Best Cataract Surgery Choices: New Implant for Cataract Surgery It remains the best time in history to have a cataract. Cataracts are no longer the leading cause of blindness in developed areas, though it remains so in developing countries. A new intraocular lens was just approved in the US by the FDA and it
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How is a Cataract Removed from the Eye? Years ago, surgeons had to open the eye at the limbus (where the cornea meets the white part of the eye called the sclera) to about 8-10mm to physically go in with a spoon or loop- like apparatus and forcefully remove the cataract. Understandably, that led to
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Why do Patients Prefer Laser Cataract Surgery? Femtosecond Laser Cataract Surgery or Laser Assisted Cataract Surgery (LACS) A few years ago, as of about 2010, no one had a real choice on what type of cataract surgery to have. The only options were: 1. Intracapsular cataract surgery: a very traumatic, archaic surgery requiring the surgeon
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Phaco Smash: My Surgical Technique and Great News This week I received great news: my surgical technique of Phaco Smash had the lowest CDE (Cumulative Dissipated Energy) numbers of all the surgeons in our surgi-center on both the LenSx femtosecond laser and the Catalys femtosecond laser. This is great news indeed. The term CDE is not discussed often with patients,
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