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The article provides insights from several experts in ophthalmology about subconjunctival minimally-invasive glaucoma surgery (MIGS) procedures and the appropriate use of antimetabolites to enhance surgical success. Topics covered include how the expansion of new treatment options changed their goals of glaucoma therapy, five features that characterize an MIGS procedure, and the advantages and disadvantages of supraciliary outflow MIGS.

The article focuses on a study which compared the standard and dropless regimens for safety and ocular efficacy in controlling postoperative pain, inflammation and infection following cataract surgery. One advantage of the dropless regimen is that it reduced the out-of-pocket expenses for patients as it contains preservative-free corticosteroids. Further, the regimen demonstrates no medication toxicity and less superficial punctate keratitis.

The article reports on the efforts of physicians to improve postoperative pain control and enhance prosthesis motility for patients. According to Dr. Shannath Merbs, speaker at the Current Concepts in Ophthalmology meeting, said that the catheter system is proven effective and attained the goal of enabling patients recover from surgery in familiar surroundings. She stated that they are also evaluating a magnetic system for improving motility by coupling the orbital implant to the prosthetic eye.