The top five procedures performed by United States ophthalmologists are:
Most of the intravitreal injections are performed by approximately 2,000 fellowship-trained retina/vitreous specialists. The growth in this office-based procedure has made retina the best compensated specialty in American ophthalmology.
Approximately 10,000 anterior segment surgeons, which include about 1,200 fellowship-trained corneal surgeons and a similar number of fellowship-trained glaucoma surgeons, perform cataract IOL/refractive cataract surgery, YAG laser, refractive corneal surgery and glaucoma surgery. We train