Refractive Lens Surgery

The first recorded time a human lens was removed for the purpose of addressing a refractive error was by an ophthalmologist named Fukala in 1890. We do not know what type of criticism he experienced, but we know that today he is a forgotten man in ophthalmology. The introduction of this as a concept in the late 1980s by both Drs.Paul Koch and Robert Osher’s manuscripts, resulted in considerable disdain and some condemnation by some of their colleagues and peers