Presbyopia - it's the future

The City of Berlin hosted this year's European Society of Refractive Surgeons Conference (ESCRS) in September. These huge conferences accurately reflect clinical practice across the world's finest refractive surgeons. Every year the quality is second to none. Every year they seem to break the previous attendance record and every year themes emerge. Themes like presbyopia.

The surgical correction of presbyopia is not a new concept, but refractive surgery, like any other industry, services its customers. Customers, in this case patients, would like an alternative to reading glasses the most attractive being not needing them. That demand is tied to demographical shifts that will continually expand this already massive group for years to come. Lots of people, it is logically believed therefore, want a presbyopic solution, and lots more will for years to come.