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Surgeon recommends use of sealants to close corneal incisions
NEW YORK — Cataract surgeons should be confident that a hydrogel sealant used to close corneal incisions will prevent wound leakage with fewer adverse events than sutures and no need for removal, according to a speaker here.“The inconvenient truth about what we do is that there are corneal incisions that we assume we seal but do not,” John A. Hovanesian, MD, FACS, said at OSN New York 2014.