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February 26, 2007
Today’s refractive surgery trends : Wavefront growth
Eyeworld Feb 2007
Wavefront technology continues to flourish, with 88% of respondents reporting that they use a wavefront analyzer. “About 90% of us are doing custom. It probably won’t get much higher than that,” Dr. Duffey believes. Use of the wavefront analyzer made meteoric leaps between 2003 and 2005, although the numbers stabilized in 2005.
Fifty-five percent of respondents use wavefront in 76% to 100% of their cases, a percentage that has increased in a step-ladder fashion in the past few years.This reflects a larger percentage of surgeons converting to wavefront in addition to the growing number of surgeons who use wavefront technology more frequently, Dr. Slade believes. The current emphasis on visual quality pushes wavefront’s popularity, Dr. MacRae said.
Posted by mehdi khanlari at February 26, 2007 11:06 PM