1256: you don’t need a pupil ring

If you are still a beginning surgeon or a resident surgeon, there may be a tendency to use pupil expansion … More

1247: Bent Needle Pre-Chopper

Our guest surgeon, Val Apostolov MD, has been featured on CataractCoach many times before. He is an innovative surgeon who … More

When I first met Arsham Sheybani MD at a meeting a few years ago, I could tell that I was … More

Diamond keratomes make the best incisions for cataract surgery because they are incredibly sharp and make very clean cuts in … More

Despite more than a decade of use and hundreds of published papers, there is still some controversy as to the potential … More

There are many different techniques for suture fixation of an IOL to the sclera: Yamane, Canabrava, Gore-Tex, belt loop, and … More

In some white cataracts, the lens capsule can become fibrotic as the lens cortex becomes absorbed and the capsule contracts. … More

The pre-chop technique refers to mechanically breaking the nucleus into smaller pieces prior to inserting the phaco probe into the … More

This is actually a very important lesson. Your microscope optics will determine your view for the surgery and that could … More

Many viewers of CataractCoach.com ask me why I prefer to have the phaco tip bevel down for cataract surgery. The … More

Bimanual irrigation/aspiration for cortex removal has an advantage: it is easy to switch hands and then access a full 360 … More

Eyes come in a spectrum of sizes, particularly with the measurements of the anterior segment in patients with extreme refractive … More

Beginning surgeons do not always realize that the force created by using small 27g cannulas can be quite high. If … More

Our colleagues from the University of Toronto recently did an experiment to determine if cataract surgery poses a risk of … More

We work in a very tiny space of just a fraction of a milliliter: the volume of the anterior chamber … More

The problem with using two hands to hold the capsulorhexis forceps is that you lose the ability to have the … More

We must examine our instruments before using them to ensure that they are intact and in normal, working condition. In … More

Our guest surgeon is Dr. Ron J. Smith who has been instrumental in teaching cataract surgery at UCLA for the … More

More than a decade ago in 2009, Dr. Bhattacharya in India described a way of using a lens snare to … More