Cataracts laser treatment introduced in UK

A new laser treatment for cataracts has been used in the UK for the first time.

The London Eye Hospital on Harley Street introduced the new technology, which can remove cataracts by dissolving them.

Currently, cataract surgery involves an incision with a blade by a surgeon into the lens, so that the cataract can be broken up with high frequency ultrasound, a process known as phacoemulsification.

While it is safe and effective, this treatment remains invasive, so new technologies are being developed including the laser treatment, called FemtoSecond, which is capable of creating a detailed three-dimensional model of the eye, then dissolve the cataract.

Consultant Ophthalmic Surgeon at the hospital Bobby Qureshi said: "The FemtoSecond laser has been specially designed to bring an extraordinary level of accuracy and reproducibility to refractive cataract surgery.

"No matter how accurate manual procedures may have seemed in the past, they simply cannot compete with the accuracy and precision that is now possible with laser cataract removal, which means that this surgery is now safer than ever before."

He added that cataracts affect 60 per cent of those over the age of 60, as well as a number of younger patients as well.

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