Femtosecond Laser Assisted Cataract Surgery

The first laser assisted cataract surgery was performed in Los Angeles by Peter J. Cornell M.D. on Tuesday September 27th, 2011.

Femtosecond lasers are now approved by the FDA for use in laser assisted cataract surgery and have the potential to accomplish increased precision and accuracy. The Femtosecond laser can make flawless incisions without using a blade and can make perfectly centered and formed capsulotomies. In addition to this, the femtosecond laser has the ability to create corneal incisions and correct pre-existing astigmatism much more precisely than previously possible.

Dr. Peter Cornell has been performing refractive surgery for 16 years and is at the forefront of this very exciting field. On Tuesday September 27th, he performed the first laser assisted cataract surgery in Los Angeles at Speciality Surgical Center in Beverly Hills. The surgery was performed using a LenSx Femtosecond laser to create the capsulotomy, nucleus fragmentation, primary incision, and arcuate corneal incision. He also used a wavefront aberrometer called the ORange system that allows Dr. Cornell to get unprecedented real time information about the actual refractive error in a patients eye during surgery. The combination of femtosecond laser assisted surgery with the ORange system at Speciality Surgical Center will move Dr. Cornell's already excellent surgical results into a new era of enhanced accuracy and precision.