Watch Dr. David Richardson, Eye Surgeon in California, answers one of the most commonly asked questions about canaloplasty, "Why Should You Choose Canaloplasty?"
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Dr. David D. Richardson | Board-certified Ophthalmologist. Multi-awarded and Harvard-trained eye doctor/ eye surgeon. A recognized expert in Glaucoma and in the highly specialized Canaloplasty procedure.
Dr. Richardson has performed thousands of advanced cataract and canaloplasty procedures with excellent results. Dr. Richardson is among an elite group of glaucoma specialists in the country performing the highly specialized canaloplasty procedure. In fact, patients have traveled half way around the world to have canaloplasty by Dr. Richardson.
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Why Should You Choose Canaloplasty?
INTRODUCTION
If you've been told that you need glaucoma surgery, you have a number of different surgical options to choose from. So why would you choose canaloplasty? Well, if you're like one of my patients there are many good reasons to choose it. We'll go over a few now.
SAFETY
Safety. This is probably one of your biggest concerns. If you've read about traditional glaucoma surgeries such as trabeculectomy, then you're probably frightened of the many risks associated with those surgeries. It's good to know then, that in studies comparing canaloplasty to trabeculectomy, canaloplasty had been showing to be a safer surgery, with fewer risks and fewer long term side effects.
AGE
Age. If you're a younger patient, trabeculectomy may not be the best option for you, simply because younger patients tend to heal better than older patients. Since trabeculectomy require a non-healing bleb, that healing response works against you. Eventually the body does heal that bleb down. And if you're younger, that means that some point during your lifetime, the bleb will fail. And you would most likely need to go on for additional glaucoma surgery. Canaloplasty does not require a bleb to work. Because there's no bleb required, your youth does not work against you.
ACTIVE LIFESTYLE
Active lifestyle. If you have an active lifestyle and enjoy activities such as water sports, you need to know that trabeculectomies may limit your ability to stay active. Blebs, are very fragile and certain activities such as water sports that include diving or scuba diving even snorkeling, may not be safe after trabeculectomy. Since canaloplasty does not involve the formation of a bleb, these activities are perfectly fine to continue after the eye has healed from surgery.
MYOPIA (NEARSIGHTEDNESS)
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