Future of Presbyopia Treatment
16 Future of Presbyopia Treatment Ming Wang, MD, PhD and Nathan Rock, OD, FAAO Modern refractive surgeons are challenged by patients who wish to be free of glasses at all…
History of Refractive Surgery
1 History of Refractive Surgery Lisa Martén, MD, MPH; David I. Geffen, OD, FAAO; Tracy Schroeder Swartz, OD, MS, FAAO, Dipl ABO; Monica Youcefi, OD; Amanda J. Setto, OD; and…
Presbyopia Correction With a Small-Aperture Inlay
4 Presbyopia Correction With a Small-Aperture Inlay Jay S. Pepose, MD, PhD and Mujtaba A. Qazi, MD In this chapter, we discuss the clinical indications for the small-aperture corneal inlay…
Overview of Refractive Lens Exchange
8 Overview of Refractive Lens Exchange Kristin Neatrour, MD; Lisa Sitterson, MD; and George Waring IV, MD, FACS Compared with corneal-based refractive surgery, lens-based surgery not only offers the advantages…
Multifocal Intraocular Lenses
9 Multifocal Intraocular Lenses Jay Bansal, MD Multifocal intraocular lenses (IOLs) have more than one focal point, which enables them to correct near and far vision. They traditionally replace the…
Refractive Inlays
6 Refractive Inlays David I. Geffen, OD, FAAO The latest surgical option for presbyopia, corneal inlay implantation, has been available since 2015 in the United States.1 Corneal inlays have several…
Overview of Presbyopia and Its Medical Management
2 Overview of Presbyopia and Its Medical Management Atalie C. Thompson, MD, MPH; Samuel Passi, MD; and Terry Kim, MD The term presbyopia refers to the gradual loss of accommodation…
Marketing Surgical Treatment for Presbyopia
15 Marketing Surgical Treatment for Presbyopia Shareef Mahdavi, BA; Li Jiang, MD; and Ming Wang, MD, PhD America is aging. Four million people become presbyopic each year. By 2017, the…
Accommodating Intraocular Lenses
10 Accommodating Intraocular Lenses David Varssano, MD An accommodating intraocular lens (IOL) is associated with a dynamic increase in dioptric power with an effort to refocus from distance to near…
