The future of refractive surgery: presbyopia treatment, can we dispense with our glasses? (original) (raw)
Refractive error remains the leading cause for visual impairment. With an aging world population, presbyopia is the leading refractive deficit. In many parts of the developed world, the average person can spend half of their lives in presbyopia [1]. With increasing digital demands, there is an increasing dependence on accommodation and presbyopic symptoms can appear as early as the 30s age group [2]. With refractive error affecting most of the world’s population at some point in their lives, it is not surprising that surgical approaches to correct refractive error have gained interest. Over the past 30 years, we saw an explosion in the variety of surgical approaches with their own relative nuances in technique, risks and benefits [2]. In this edition, Ang et al. [3], overview the advancements in refractive surgery over the past three decades and provide an insight, beyond 2020. The authors cover the rich variety of procedures, showing how surgery has evolved and how it can correct v...
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