It has set a whole new standard. Never before were we able to tell our patients that you could actually see better after therapy. In the past, we were always telling our patients that the treatment just slowed down the progression of vision loss, but now we have a new standard. We no longer will accept vision loss.

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We have a six-month window, maybe a window of one year, to use these treatments on patients before the blood vessels break and bleed, and a scar forms in the back of the eye. Once a scar forms, we are unable to restore the vision and prevent further vision loss.

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