Prevalence of procedures for floaters

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After reading up on floaters I was wondering if procedures are becoming more prevalent for them. I mean, besides vitrectomies for severe cases or whatever, is laser gaining popularity?

 

[Retinamark]

I've never heard of any reputable institutions doing laser for floaters. There is one guy in Florida who does a lot of it, but I can't help thinking that if he has done as many as he says & it works as well as he says, why has he not published his results & why has no-one else been able to achieve the same results.
I can't help wondering if he is just doing it for the money & he just doesn't see the resulting retinal tears / detachments, because they get referred to a retina specialist somewhere else

I'd be very interested to hear if anyone else is doing them

 

[Andrew_Doan]

As Retinamark pointed out, the incidence for retinal tears and detachments after laser is not trivial. This is not a standard of care for floaters.