Frantz EyeCare reports 98% of Light Adjustable Lens patients achieved refractive accuracy within ±0.50 D of target, exceeding published national cataract surgery benchmarks.
|Articles|April 15, 2004
Cataract and refractive surgery outcomes improve with new technology
The use of wavefront technology and customized ablation to treat aberrations and of the fourth-generation fluoroquinolones to prevent infections were the primary topics of a symposium on new technologies in cataract and refractive surgery held in conjunction with the American Academy of Ophthalmology annual meeting, Anaheim, CA.
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