Phoenix-based Barnet Dulaney Perkins Eye Center's Scott Perkins, MD, successfully placed a Visian Toric Implantable Contact Lens in a Chandler, Ariz.-based patient, the White Mountain Independent reports.
Here's what you should know:
1. Dr. Perkins believes the procedure was the first in the southwestern U.S.
2. The Visian Toric Implantable Contact Lens is a solution for patients with varying levels of myopia and astigmatism.
3. The newly FDA-approved procedure is still breaking into the market, with only a handful of procedures performed to date.
4. Dr. Perkins said, "[The procedure] was great. It was very straightforward having the same techniques that I use for putting in ICL's over the past 20 years. I knew exactly what to do."