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What Is the Gold Standard for Eye Care?

What Is the Gold Standard for Eye Care? (0:16)

The gold standard for eye care would be preventative medicine, allowing no need to ever again operate on the eye, says Mark Blumenkranz, MD. In this video, learn how experts hope this can someday be accomplished with lasers and biopharmaceuticals.

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Well, I think lasers and biopharmaceuticals, and what we'd like to do is eventually avoid the need to ever have to operate on anyone, and for anyone to even develop the disease. That's the goal standard, is to essentially to engage in preventive medicine and some drugs will get us there.