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Surgeons speculate about future of ophthalmic surgery
In the future, will ophthalmic surgeries be easier to perform than they are now? Intuitively, one might expect the answer to be an obvious “yes,” and superficially, some of the recent upgrades in our surgical equipment appear to confirm this impression. But surprisingly, ophthalmology’s historical trend appears to be in the opposite direction: In general, eye surgeries may be becoming more difficult.Consider, for example, cataract surgery. Initially, the operation consisted entirely of couching the lens into the back of the eye. Intracapsular extraction was the major successor, which was a (Read more...)