An eye for an eye.

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My friend Austin joins to chat about the most commonly implanted medical device: artificial eye lenses, or intraocular lenses (IOLs), which replace the natural eye lens, necessary to treat cataracts in millions of elderly Americans. Look out for a nasty, ineffective yet extremely well-documented procedure for ancient eye surgery, an alarming disparity in blindness demographics between the developing and developed world, and constant reminders of how awesome our human eyes are. 

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Works Consulted:

Overview of Procedures surgeryencyclopedia.com/Ce-Fi/Extracapsular-Cataract-Extraction.html

Traditional Couching (Schemann 2009) doi.org/10.1076/opep.7.4.271.4174

Femtosecond Laser Outcomes (Alio 2014) doi.org/10.3928/1081597X-20140516-01 (access at tinyurl.com/alio-femtosecond)

Femtosecond Meta-Analysis (Popovic 2016) doi.org/10.1016/j.ophtha.2016.07.005

Demographics in Developing Countries (Book: Wilcon, 2005) books.google.com/books?id=gLJZDD2igCMC&pg=PA20#v=onepage&q&f=false (Cited on en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cataract#cite_note-12)

Monofocal vs Accommodating IOLs (Ong 2014) doi.org/10.1002/14651858.cd009667.pub2

Multifocal vs Accommodating IOLs (Hovanesian 2018) dx.doi.org/10.2147%2FOPTH.S182943

Toric IOLs (Kaur 2017) dx.doi.org/10.4103%2Fijo.IJO_810_17

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