[Note: Image is of a severe ptosis. Most ptosis seen after eye surgery is less severe. | Photo credit: “1852 ptosis patient” by William Bell – http://www.flickr.com/photos/22719239@N04/2260115819. Licensed under Public Domain via Commons.]...
What Is Trabeculectomy Surgery? “It was the best of times, it was the worst of times…” If this well known opening to Charles Dickens’ Tale of Two Cities were to be rewritten as “It was the best of glaucoma surgeries, it was the...
I have heard that Canaloplasty is not as effective as trabeculectomy is this true? There’s an impression that traditional glaucoma surgery trabeculectomy is more effective at lowering pressure than canaloplasty. This impression is based on the fact that...
I already had traditional glaucoma surgery trabeculectomy, can I have Canaloplasty? If you already had standard glaucoma surgery called trabeculectomy, then generally, you’re not a good candidate for canaloplasty. The reason for that is that trabeculectomy...
