How has using a chandelier for scleral buckling impacted your teaching or surgical outcomes?  

Chandelier buckles are valuable in teaching primary scleral buckle to fellows early in their training, but do not offer significant benefits beyond this application. The reason is that management of the chandelier itself (in the eye for marking breaks and cryo, out of the eye for placement of the b...

We have been proponents of using a chandelier light to teach and improve surgery for scleral buckle cases for well over a decade (Seider et al., PMID 27621789) and recognize its importance in 1) teaching 2) visualization and 3) accuracy of treatment. I use a 25g chandelier light on the Alcon system ...