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What do you feel are some of the advantages and disadvantages of dropless cataract surgery and what are your preferred agents?

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Ophthalmology · Northern Virginia Ophthalmology Associates Pc

A clear advantage of dropless surgery is that the patient no longer needs to use post-op drops. This may not necessarily present as an advantage to the surgeon, as any additional techniques will add time and cost to the cataract surgery, especially if a particular technique is not covered by insuran...

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Ophthalmology · Freedom Vision Consultants

I have gone dropless and come back to what i would call “less drops”. Let me explain.

i use intracam moxi at the end of the case, given via a 30g AC injection. My goal is to get 500 micrograms of moxi in fhe AC via about 0.2-0.25mL injection.

i also use subconjunctival Trimoxi. I do this mainly becaus...

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