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|July 1, 2003
Phaco system brings cataract surgery into a new dimension
Author(s)Cheryl Guttman
San Francisco-The Infiniti Vision System (Alcon) is a highly versatile platform that offers surgeons the option of removing cataracts with advanced ultrasonic phaco-emulsification alone, ultrasound plus oscillation using the NeoSoniX handpiece, or with the new AquaLase liquefaction device, said Richard J. Mackool, MD, at the Amer-ican Society of Cataract and Refractive Sur-gery (ASCRS) annual meeting.
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