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With all the talk and development of the femtosecond laser for cataract surgery got me thinking and I was wondering others opinions.
Femtosecond technology might soon be able to cut your incisions, LRI or AK's, make the rhexis, and liquify the lens. So all the surgeon has to do is stick in an I&A port and just suck out the cataract and then shoot a lens in.
To me, as a resident learning cataract surgery seems to take all the fun out of it. Now I know that is not what it is ALL about, but still.
Also if this happens to do you think general guys\girls will maybe start doing other things more, pushing into the subspecialities more than currently. Again as a current resident, learning cataract surgery is the main thing we do, and this would seem to make it 100x easier.
Do you even think this will be mainstream ever or just for the folks that can afford "refractive cataract surgery"
Lastly could this be the same conversation they were having ~20 years ago when phaco came on the scene.
Femtosecond technology might soon be able to cut your incisions, LRI or AK's, make the rhexis, and liquify the lens. So all the surgeon has to do is stick in an I&A port and just suck out the cataract and then shoot a lens in.
To me, as a resident learning cataract surgery seems to take all the fun out of it. Now I know that is not what it is ALL about, but still.
Also if this happens to do you think general guys\girls will maybe start doing other things more, pushing into the subspecialities more than currently. Again as a current resident, learning cataract surgery is the main thing we do, and this would seem to make it 100x easier.
Do you even think this will be mainstream ever or just for the folks that can afford "refractive cataract surgery"
Lastly could this be the same conversation they were having ~20 years ago when phaco came on the scene.