EyeWorld Asia-Pacific March 2020 Issue

EWAP MARCH 2020 33 CATARACT limbus and the iris, you will see it centered in such a way that when you insert the implant [it] will be in its final resting place and it’s going to overlap.” Pearls for a manual capsulorhexis Pearls for a good capsulorhexis, Dr. Patterson said, include filling the anterior chamber with viscoelastic to the point of pushing the lens back and flattening the anterior lens surface. Instead of starting a capsulorhexis with a tear using forceps, Dr. Patterson uses a bent needle to minimize viscoelastic loss. “It’s just easy and quick and cheap, and you just put it in underneath the capsule and just keep going. And you’ve just got to take your time and don’t let it extend too far out, but if you do, then there are techniques to pull it back in,” Dr. Patterson said. For Dr. Devgan, ensuring precise measurement for an ideal capsulorhexis means using forceps, which have these measurements built in. “This allows for exact planning for every case and it just takes a second or two,” Dr. Devgan said. “Many forceps come with these tips and you can even add these marks to your existing forceps.” EWAP Editors’ note: Dr. Devgan is in private practice at Devgan Eye Surgery, is clinical professor of ophthalmology at the Jules Stein Eye Institute, chief of ophthalmology at Olive View UCLA Medical Center, Los Angeles, and has relevant financial interests with CataractCoach.com and Mynosys. Dr. Patterson is medical director at Eye Centers of Tennessee Crossville, Tennessee, and declared no relevant financial interests. Ad space Supported by: College of Ophthalmologists, Academy of Medicine, Singapore Friday, 30 July 2021 • 07:30 – 08:30hrs A rare opportunity to sit down withhousehold names in cataract, refractive surgery, cornea, and glaucoma and ask them face to face the questions that have always bugged you. Ask anything about IOLs, refractive surgery, complex cataracts, biometry, cornea, phaco techniques and glaucoma in a roundtable discussion over breakfast. MEET-THE-EXPERTS MEETING POSTPONED to 29-31 july 2021 Singapore 29 – 31 July 2021 Postponed to pg33 | Meet the Experts.indd 1 26/03/2020 9:30 AM