In the past, managing small pupils was much more of
a challenge than it is today. Years ago, enlargement
techniques meant incising the pupillary margins,
stretching the pupil with one or two instruments,
performing sector iridectomies, and so …
I remember it like it was yesterday. I was flying back
home from the American-European Congress of
Ophthalmic Surgery summit in Orlando, Florida, in
the fall of 2011, and an idea hit me. It was not just a
small conceptual idea; it was specific…
During cataract surgery, the pupil must be sufficiently
dilated to provide adequate surgical
access to the cataract. Insufficient pupillary
dilation can pose surgical challenges to ophthalmologists
such as an obstructed view, reduced red refle…
During the past decades, the innovations in
ophthalmology have been a highlight in all of
medicine. The development of modern techniques
for cataract removal and IOL implantation,
new vitreoretinal surgical and medical therapies,
the evolutio…
Although surgeons may differ in their desire to
look for and treat dry eye disease (DED), they
all have the same underlying goal: making
patients happy. Patients will be displeased with
any surgical experience if their preoperative quality of
…
Many important steps are required to take a
product from its initial concept to market,
including design, building, packaging, testing,
and sales. In medicine, an increasingly complex
yet critical part of the process is the FDA’s approval or…