The Development of Femtosecond Lasers for Cataract Surgery

Several years ago, in October 2008, I came across a writeup in Cataract & Refractive Surgery Today (CRST), about Technolas Perfect Vision announcing that the newly formed company would be using femtosecond laser technology to investigate laser-based treatments for presbyopia, including the use of intrastromal ablation (ISA). That statement piqued my interest, since I had been involved with the concept of ISA since my earliest involvement with ophthalmic lasers, beginning in the mid-1980s. I decided to write about my engagement with this technology and its history. That became “Intrastromal Ablation: A Technology Whose Time Has Come?

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