Abstract
Cataract surgery has a history of about 2800 years. Harold Ridleyʼs invention of the intraocular lens in 1949 set a milestone in cataract surgery, supplying patients with a more or less satisfactory refractive implant for the first time. In the following 70 years, cataract surgery, IOL technology, and biometry have developed enormously. The invention of optical biometry in 1999 has again fundamentally changed cataract surgery. The introduction of the first optical biometer, the Zeiss IOLMaster, and Prof. Wolfgang Haigisʼ (University Wurzburg, Germany) ULIB database of formula constants (http://ocusoft.de/ulib/) paved the way for this most successful new technology. In parallel, the number of IOL manufacturers, as well as IOL models and their technical capabilities (e.g., aspheric, multifocal, EDOF, and toric IOLs) have multiplied, making it more difficult for ophthalmic surgeons to maintain a clear overview of all the available options.
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