Do you feel there are medical advantages to FLACS and if so, what are they and how often are you offering FLACS to patients?

That's a question that's sure to trigger contentious responses!

Personally, I think the capability of making toric marks on the cornea or lens capsule to line up toric lenses (and using iris registration to do so), as well as the ability to do LRIs, does offer some advantage for accuracy in astigmati...

Although randomized trials have not demonstrated that femtosecond laser–assisted cataract surgery (FLACS) is superior to conventional phacoemulsification in terms of visual outcomes or complication rates, FLACS may be beneficial in cases of dense nuclei by reducing total ultrasound energy and provid...

I have no dog in this fight, since I do not offer femto-assisted surgery. Nonetheless, I will say treating low-order astigmatism in the 1.0-1.3 range is becoming more popular. I am envious of a relatively safe method to effortlessly get rid of low-order astigmatism, like femto LRIs. There are defini...

I personally find it helpful for Fuch's patients. I find the reduction in energy and time in the eye leads to less post-op swelling.

There have been a few studies on that topic, which say standard and femto are more or less equivalent in Fuch's patients, however. But then again, one of those studies...

As has been mentioned, if the government came out and said you could not charge any extra for FLACS and the “business model” went away, how many of these users or super users would suddenly quit using the laser? I think the government dropped the ball on this one by allowing surgeons to charge outsi...