November 13, 2021
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Durrie DS. State of the union — laser eyesight correction. Presented at: American Academy of Ophthalmology meeting Nov. 12-15, 2021 New Orleans.

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Durrie experiences having money disclosures for Alcon, Bausch + Lomb, iOR Partners, Johnson & Johnson, Schwind, STAAR Surgical, WaveLight, Zeiss and Ziemer.
NEW ORLEANS — A shift away from LASIK could happen in the future, 1 expert mentioned during a presentation at Refractive Surgical procedure Subspecialty Day at the American Academy of Ophthalmology conference.
“What I’m looking at is, is LASIK itself going to be still left at the rear of like we have with other processes?” Daniel S. Durrie, MD, said. “My experience is that it is not heading to take place fast but that it is going to transpire.”
One of the good reasons Durrie expects this transition to occur is that firms are placing more dollars into study and progress for femtosecond laser surgical procedure than they are for excimer laser medical procedures. By 2030, Durrie explained that he expects state-of-the-art diagnostics, automation and synthetic intelligence will engage in a purpose in corneal-dependent refractive surgery and that PRK and sophisticated area ablation will endure. In addition, he expects femto lenticular corneal shaping will “dominate” because of to a absence of epithelial flaws and a significant quantity of corporate financial investment.
Phakic IOLs are also probably to flourish in the field of lens-primarily based refractive surgical treatment, he explained.
“There is a lot of motion towards refractive lens trade, which we can call dysfunctional lens syndrome,” Durrie claimed.
There has been a whole lot of progress in corneal laser surgical procedures around the past 30 years, and modern strategies that are risk-free, hassle-free and price-powerful are serving to field development.
“We are in the center of a technologies modify, each in our lens-centered refractive operation and our corneal refractive surgical treatment, but the foreseeable future just seems wonderful,” Durrie said. “It’s an superb time to be a detailed refractive surgeon.”

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