Lens replacement surgery poised to become most successful refractive procedure

If one travels outside the United States to a meeting of refractive cataract surgeons, it quickly becomes clear that trifocal diffractive/refractive optic IOLs are far more popular than the bifocal diffractive/refractive optic IOLs we currently have available here.
Extended depth of focus (EDOF) IOLs and monovision with spherical and aspheric IOLs retain a strong following, but the bifocal IOLs (called multifocal in the U.S.) most commonly utilized today in America have been mostly abandoned in other countries. The trifocal IOL market leaders are the Zeiss At Lisa, Alcon PanOptix and (Read more...)

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