This book aims at updating knowledge of the reader on modern diagnostic practices and the contemporary ‘state of the art’ in ophthalmic surgery. It is a comprehensive text combined with visual references (figures and videos), of important surgical procedures. Chapters on corneal and refractive surgery, advances in intraocular lens materials and designs, diagnostic tests for glaucoma and vitreoretinal diseases and bimanual microphacoemulsification are excellent. Well written topics on small incision cataract surgery, pediatric cataract surgery, laser photocoagulation, photodynamic therapy, transpupillary thermotherapy, vitreoretinal surgeries and macular and submacular surgeries including macular translocation add to the value of this book. Diagnostic tests aiding orbital surgeries, together with, surgical strategies in uveitis, are innovative additions.

Dr Sandeep Saxena has compiled an excellent collection of chapters, all written by experts in their respective fields. I am certain this book will make its space on the tables of all postgraduate students and ophthalmic surgeons.

New technology and surgical approaches must be adapted to the specific socioeconomic conditions and disease presentations in different parts of the world. One area or country may see different diseases or disease manifestations than another, and may have different systems for financing new technology.

No one ophthalmologist can be highly expert in all facets of ophthalmic surgery. In this challenging intellectual environment a text bringing together respected authors from multiple subspecialties is welcome. Dr Sandeep Saxena has gathered a distinguished group of experts to address the current status of eye surgery. The subjects include new diagnostic instruments and have multiple chapters on individual surgical problems. This text has an excellent compilation of lucid color figures and surgical videos. This book has contributors from around the globe. This is in fact the first complete ophthalmic surgery textbook from Southeast Asia for practicing ophthalmologists and residents.

Dr Saxena is an extraordinarily gifted and energetic surgeon and academician who, along with his fellow authors, has produced a book, which is an important contribution to contemporary ophthalmic education. Dr. Saxena and his colleagues are to be congratulated for an exemplary effort which will be of great value to the readers. I heartedly congratulate them all on their success.

The earliest attempts to record and describe techniques of ophthalmic surgery date back centuries before Hippocrates. They include the Sanskrit texts of Susruta and Baghbata on cataract and the Egyptian papyri on epilation. Old concepts change and new ideas are plentiful. Everything is difficult before it becomes easy.

Ophthalmic Surgery: The Cutting Edge provides a comprehensive text combined with integrated visual reference, in the form of black and white and colored figures and numerous surgical videos, of the important surgical subspecialties of ophthalmology. This book attempts to update the state of art in ophthalmic surgery in a lucid, authoritative and well-illustrated manner. Most of the techniques described have been accepted and form the background of modern ophthalmic surgery.

The value of this book lies in the quality and expertise of the text chapters and surgical video contributors from around the globe. State-of-the-art anterior segment surgeries such as corneal and refractive surgeries, glaucoma surgeries, phacoemulsification, bimanual microphacoemulsification, small incision cataract surgery and pediatric cataract surgery have been included. Posterior segment surgeries such as laser photocoagulation, photodynamic therapy, transpupillary thermotherapy, vitreoretinal surgeries and macular and submacular surgeries including macular translocation have also been included. Surgical strategies in uveitis, strabismus, lid, orbit and intraocular tumors have also been presented. Advances in phacoemulsification technology including cold phaco, intraocular lens material and designs, plasma blade, and vitreoretinal surgery add further to this text. Diagnostic tests aiding glaucoma surgery and vitreoretinal surgery are novel additions.

This book is intended for the experienced ophthalmologists, postgraduates as well as those in training. It is hoped that this book will be sufficiently comprehensive to aid the ophthalmic surgeon in performing competent surgery and in the management of complications. This pragmatic book provides an understanding of surgical techniques so important to the everyday practice of ophthalmology.