Multifocal IOL on toric platform improves near, intermediate vision

LOS ANGELES — Adding a toric platform to a multifocal IOL significantly improves vision at intermediate and near distances, according to one speaker. “Our goal was to show that, if you put the toric platform on a multifocal, are you going to get just as good vision or is it going to worsen the vision putting those two things together? In this intermediate [distance], it actually improved the vision one line by correcting the astigmatism,” Stephen V. Scoper, MD, said at the American Society of Cataract and Refractive Surgery meeting.

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