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incision, but then you'd open the incision to 7 or 8 mm to insert the lens
implant. Phaco cost a heck of a lot back then, and for what? Then foldable lens-
es came along and no one looked back."
Lasers will follow a similar trajectory, says Dr. Miller. "Some lens technologi-
cal advancement will come along and we'll say, Ah, that's why we have the
laser." For example, he says, perhaps surgeons will someday be able to implant
wavefront-correcting lenses because they'll know exactly where they'll sit on
the X, Y and Z planes.
"If I look at my crystal ball, I believe the laser will be more widely adopted
than it is now, and I've seen a lot of technologies fall off the radar," says Dr.
Miller. "This isn't the end of the story for the laser. It's the beginning of its next
phase."
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