gms | German Medical Science

Lens Removal Technology has seen significant advances in the recent decades. There has been refinement in all aspects of Cataract Surgery, including the preoperative planning to surgical performance and postoperative outcomes. The future is moving towards integrating the preoperative diagnostics with the intraoperative surgical performance. Cataract Surgery is now moving towards providing Customized Outcomes for each eye and each patient. Today, Cataract Surgery is Refractive Surgery, but tomorrow we foresee it to become a Lifestyle Enhancing Surgery. Phaco technology has seen much more refinement over the last few years. The newer phaco machines have much better and controlled fluidics, with features like customization of intraoperative Intraocular Pressure, Use of Optimal Energy and vacuum resulting in controlled anterior chamber fluid dynamics. Intraoperative technology like image-guided capsulorhexis and IOL positioning, intraoperative aberrometry and others are also changing the game of achieving precise outcomes.