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Summary of Surgical Techniques to Correct Presbyopia
Posted By Irv Arons On June 1, 2009 @ 12:32 am In Consultant Articles,Industry News,New Technologies,Products,Refractive | Comments Disabled
The latest issue of Eye World, the news magazine of the American Society of Cataract & Refractive Surgery, had an article exploring existing surgical techniques for correcting presbyopia.
Techniques covered include:
Concerning lasers, a new startup company, LensAR, located in Winter Park, FL, founded by Randy Frey, former head of Autonmous Technologies, has begun work on using a femtosecond laser to provide some of the lost accommodation in the aged eye. LensAR hopes to use the laser to separate some of the protein fibers within the lens, so that they “can slide over each other”.
The safety and efficacy of this approach is currently being modeled at LensAR, according to Ron Krueger, during his presentation at the recent ASCRS Meeting in San Francisco, as reported in the current issue of EyeWorld.
Others working on similar techniques include Laser Centrum (Hanover, Germany) and Carl Zeiss Meditec (Dublin, CA).
Read [1] the full article in EyeWorld.
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