Ladas Super Formula aims to improve refractive accuracy of cataract surgery

We have all seen it in our own patients: After a seemingly routine cataract surgery that is without complications, the patient ends up with a refractive miss. Even though we were aiming for a plano refraction, the patient is a diopter away from that. For a patient electing for cataract surgery alone, this is still a successful case because the patient was not electing for vision correction. But for those patients who are electing to pay out of pocket for treatment of astigmatism and a specific refractive outcome, being off (Read more...)

New devices offer potential of perfectly sized, shaped and centered CCC

Extracapsular cataract extraction was pioneered by Jacques Daviel in 1747. Even in those pioneering years, an anterior capsulotomy was required. In these early cases, the anterior capsule was torn open with a sharp instrument, the first cystotome. Albrecht von Graefe, in 1850, just over 100 years later, refined creation of the anterior capsular opening to a capsulectomy, using forceps to lacerate and remove a portion of the anterior capsule. In 1917, Ignacio Barraquer led ophthalmic surgeons away from extracapsular cataract extraction to intracapsular cataract extraction, and ICCE dominated over ECCE (Read more...)