Back when I was a resident (all old surgeons say those words…) my professors taught me to perform ECCE with the corneo-scleral scissors. We had to perform 10 of these ECCE surgeries before being allowed to learn phaco. Even then, the thought of using these scissors to cut along the limbus seemed barbaric. And certainly now, many years later (I finished residency in 2000 – the year when many CataractCoach fans were born…) it is finally time to stop using them! The same way that you no longer hear of any surgeon using the von Graefe knife (look it up if you want to be shocked), it is time for this technique to be left in the history books.
