Editorial
Adjustable suture strabismus surgery: continuing progress
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The use of the adjustable suture strabismus technique has led
to a revolution in strabismus surgery. Previously, depending on the
surgeon's experience, the results of strabismus surgery may not have
been very predictable after a first eye muscle procedure, let alone
subsequent ones. The advent of adjustable sutures permitted ophthalmologists to adopt new attitudes towards their patients. Firstly, non-experienced ophthalmologists could attempt surgery, knowing that if their approach were not quite right, they would be
given a second chance during the postoperative adjustment process. Secondly, experienced strabismus surgeons could realistically foretell
a successful outcome rate often exceeding 90%
a prediction practically impossible without the use of adjustable sutures.
As with any innovative procedure, surgeons then attempted to
improve the technique. The paper in this issue of the
BJO (p 80) by Choi and colleagues is such a
potential improvement. Their premise is that the further in time from
the
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