SAN FRANCISCO — At Refractive Surgery Subspecialty Day at the American Academy of Ophthalmology meeting, an expert shared what he wished he knew about optical aberrations when he started practicing.
Kashif Baig, MD, MBA, FRCSC, said aberrations are all imperfections within the eye that cause light rays to deviate from the desired path.
“We might think that aberrations are bad, but they actually provide certain tolerance for defocus,” he said. “So, it’s not all bad, and we can use aberrations to our advantage.”
Aberrations can be broken down into two