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Canaloplasty Surgery FAQ | Is Canaloplasty Surgery Painful?
Dr. David D. Richardson (Eye Doctor, LA) answers one of the most commonly asked questions about Canaloplasty (an advanced minimally invasive glaucoma treatment). Is Canaloplasty Surgery Painful? Canaloplasty surgery should be a painless procedure, in a sense that your eye will be numbed at the time of surgery. This can be done either with an injection around the eye or with drops. Additionally, most surgeons do have an anesthesiologist present, who could give you something in the IV by vein to keep you nice and relax during...
read moreCanaloplasty FAQ | What If My Natural Drainage Canal Cannot Be Fully Catheterized?
Dr. David D. Richardson (Eye Doctor, LA) answers one of the most commonly asked questions about Canaloplasty (an advanced minimally invasive glaucoma treatment). What If My Natural Drainage Canal Cannot Be Fully Catheterized? To get the full benefit of Canaloplasty, it is important for your surgeon to fully catheterize your natural drainage canal. Once that’s done, your surgeon can then dilate the canal just as with angioplasty and following that, leave a stent in the canal which leaves it open after surgery. If any of these steps...
read moreCanaloplasty FAQ | Will My Insurance Cover Canaloplasty?
Dr. David D. Richardson (Eye Doctor, LA) answers one of the most commonly asked questions about Canaloplasty (an advanced minimally invasive glaucoma treatment). Will My Insurance Cover Canaloplasty? The good news with regard to insurance coverage is that canaloplasty is covered by most major insurances including Medicare. Although there are some smaller insurance companies and HMOs that do not currently cover canaloplasty as of early 2012, more are adding canaloplasty as a covered benefit every month. Simply because it works so well,...
read moreCanaloplasty Surgery FAQ | Is Eliminating Drops Worth The Risk Of Having Canaloplasty?
Dr. David D. Richardson (Eye Doctor, LA) answers one of the most commonly asked questions about Canaloplasty (an advanced minimally invasive glaucoma treatment). Is Eliminating Drops Worth The Risk Of Having Canaloplasty? Canaloplasty is surgery and as a surgery it does have some risks. So, the question is to whether or not it’s worth taking the risk, if your glaucoma is currently controlled on drops is one that needs to be individually addressed by you as well as your glaucoma surgeon or specialist. Drops themselves are not...
read moreLeading Canaloplasty Surgeons On iScience Canaloplasty Conference Call
Dr. David Richardson and Dr. Howard Barnebey discusses Canaloplasty via a conference call with other ophthalmologists. This conference call was sponsored by iScience Interventional and hosted by Rick Vendsel, iScience Interventional Vice President in Sales. ********** New Glaucoma Treatment, Canaloplasty | Conference Call Transcription Rick Vendsel: On behalf of iScience, I’d like to thank everyone for taking time out of their busy schedules to attend this conference call to learn more about Canaloplasty. My name is Rick...
read moreCanaloplasty FAQ 2 | How Long Has Canaloplasty Been Around?
Dr. David D. Richardson (Eye Doctor, LA) answers one of the most commonly asked questions about Canaloplasty (an advanced minimally invasive glaucoma treatment): How Long Has Canaloplasty Been Around? “How long has canaloplasty been around?” That’s a question I get asked quite a bit, and I understand why. Anytime there’s a new procedure, the concern is, “Will it last? What’s the long term safety profile?” and these are good concerns to have. Well, the interesting thing about canaloplasty...
read moreCanaloplasty FAQ | Why Choose Canaloplasty?
Dr. David D. Richardson (Eye Doctor, LA) answers one of the most commonly asked questions about Canaloplasty (an advanced minimally invasive glaucoma treatment): Why Choose Canaloplasty? So why choose canaloplasty over other more traditional glaucoma surgeries such as trabeculectomy or tubes? Well, there are number of reasons but the main one is safety. Safety Canaloplasty simply is a safer surgery and there are multiple studies that look at its safety profile and this can easily be compared with those of trabeculectomy and tubes...
read moreCanaloplasty FAQ 5 | What If The Canal Is Not Fully Catheterized?
Dr. David D. Richardson (Eye Doctor, LA) answers one of the most commonly asked questions about Canaloplasty (an advanced minimally invasive glaucoma treatment): What If The Canal Is Not Fully Catheterized? What if the canal cannot be fully catheterized by the iTrack catheter during canaloplasty? Well, for canaloplasty to be fully effective, the canal really does need to be fully catheterized so that a suture can be placed through the canal and then tied to stent open the canal. Now, that being said, there are occasions when...
read moreCanaloplasty FAQ | How Long Does Canaloplasty Take?
Dr. David D. Richardson (Eye Doctor, LA) answers one of the most commonly asked questions about Canaloplasty (an advanced minimally invasive glaucoma treatment): How Long Does Canaloplasty Take? One very common question I’m asked is, “how long does canaloplasty take?” Well, by eye surgery standards, it’s a pretty long surgery. It can last anywhere from 45 minutes to two hours, depending upon the complexity of one’s anatomy, as well as the skill of one’s surgeon. Canaloplasty is not a surgery...
read moreCanaloplasty | What Does Minimally Invasive Mean?
Dr. David D. Richardson, Eye Surgeon in California, answers one of the most commonly asked questions about Canaloplasty (an advanced minimally invasive glaucoma treatment), “What Does Minimally Invasive Mean?” You may learn more about canaloplasty at http://new-glaucoma-treatments.com. What Does Minimally Invasive Mean? About Dr. David Richardson Dr. Richardson has performed thousands of advanced cataract and canaloplasty procedures with excellent results. Dr. Richardson is among an elite group of glaucoma...
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