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Cataract surgery performed with high irrigation pressures result in intraoperative IOPs that are typically many times higher than the physiological IOP.

At Alcon, our vision care medical device products, such as PRECISION1® One-Day Contact Lenses, are designed, manufactured and marketed with a body of science developed through rigorous bench research and clinical studies. As…

Multifocality in IOLs is achieved through refractive or diffractive optical approaches

Acanthamoeba keratitis (AK) can cause devastating damage to the eye and permanent vision loss

More than 140 million people wear contact lenses worldwide (40.9 million US), and it is estimated that up to 50% of contact lens wearers experience lens discomfort.1-3 When contact lens discomfort (CLD) persists, patients…

Presbyopia represents an increasing medical challenge world-wide

Today’s SS-OCT biometers employ two methods to measure the axial length: Sum-of Segments using individual refractive indices or a Mean Group Refractive Index.

Two fundamentally different principles of flap creation: the microkeratome mechanically separates the corneal tissue with the blade to create a flap, while in femtosecond LASIK a spatula is required to separate the stromal…

Alcon WaveLight® Topography-Guided LASIK and Zeiss small-incision lenticule extraction (SMILE^) treatments are fundamentally very different corneal refractive procedures.