Alcon Science Resource Library

At Alcon, our vision care medical device products, such as our family of multifocal contact lenses, are designed, manufactured and marketed with a body of science developed through rigorous bench research and clinical studies.

At Alcon, our surgical medical device products, such as the WaveLight® suite for Contoura® Vision, are designed, manufactured and marketed with a body of science developed through rigorous bench research and clinical studies.

At Alcon, our surgical medical device products, such as the ARGOS® swept- source optical coherence tomography (SS-OCT) biometer, are designed, manufactured and marketed with a body of science developed through rigorous bench…

The 53 articles summarized in this compendium were identified using the PubMed and Google Scholar databases incorporating the search terms “Contoura Vision”, “topography-guided LASIK, topography-guided ablation”, “Wavelight…

The 34 articles summarized in this compendium were identified using the PubMed and Google Scholar databases incorporating the search terms “Clareon”, “AutonoMe” and “hydrophobic acrylic intraocular lens”, with publication time…

An endoillumination light source must provide adequate and satisfactory illumination, but it must also account for the aphakic hazard experienced by the patient (light-absorbing features of the cornea and the lens are bypassed…

Astigmatism occurs when light entering the eye does not converge at a single focal point in the back of the eye, but instead focuses at two different locations. Visually, this causes images to appear smeared / elongated, due to…

Early adoption of new technology fosters innovative applications, potentially providing efficiency and clinical benefits

The evolution of surgical glaucoma treatment has led to the development of procedures attempting to achieve better efficacy, but having variable complication profiles