WAIKOLOA, Hawaii — There is “no free lunch” when matching the right patient to the right IOL, Jack T. Holladay, MD, MSEE, FACS, said at Hawaiian Eye 2022.
“Everything we do has a compromise if we produce more multifocality,” Holladay said in a presentation discussing the range of available IOLs, from aspheric monofocal lenses to extended depth of focus, pinhole, bifocal and trifocal lenses.
When considering a monofocal lens, he said physicians should picture 100 rays coming through an aperture to a “perfect point” and then spreading back out.
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