Cataract surgery is one of the most common, successful and safest surgeries in the United States.
Advances in lens design and preoperative refractive calculations have meant good outcomes and happy patients. However, irregular corneas can throw a wrench into the situation and complicate cataract surgery, as well as other vision correction procedures.
“The big challenges with irregular corneas are the stray light rays that get refracted through them,” OSN Refractive Surgery Section Editor John P. Berdahl, MD, said. “Those rays are going places that we don’t want them to