SAN FRANCISCO — Performing corneal cross-linking at the slit lamp democratizes access to care and reduces costs, according to a presentation at Refractive Surgery Subspecialty Day at the American Academy of Ophthalmology meeting.
Farhad Hafezi, MD, PhD, said moving to an infrastructure that does not have as many necessities as traditional cross-linking has advantages.
“The most important advantage is, in many areas of the world there is no steady access to operating rooms,” he said. “We’re talking about countries where the next operating room would be 100 miles away.”