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Near vision can be optimized with scleral micro-inserts
Finding a solution to presbyopia, a condition that affects nearly 90 million Americans and 1.7 billion people worldwide, has long been the holy grail in ophthalmology. Most of our current surgical approaches to presbyopia, including monovision LASIK and multifocal IOLs, provide improved near vision but at the cost of some compromise to distance acuity or quality. I have been involved as an investigator in the clinical trial of the VisAbility micro-insert system (Refocus Group). In this procedure, four tiny PMMA inserts, each about the size of a grain of rice (Read more...)