Trabeculoplasty

Okay, so the two big things, which are both growing at the moment, roughly 10% a year.

There's a laser treatment called SLT, selective laser trabeculoplasty, which is something that's done very quickly.

It takes about two minutes in rooms.

It's not outrageously expensive.

controlling the pressure with reducing or eliminating the need for drops.

So both of those things have taken over significantly.

In Australia, if you look at MBS data, there's about 50,000 SLT procedures done a year.

And in terms of mixed procedures, minimally invasive glaucoma surgery, you're looking at about 15,000 a year of those procedures being done.

I wouldn't do cataract surgery just to reduce IOP.

I would, in fact, in this patient, consider potentially doing SLT before surgery.

and getting this pressure down into the normal range and then seeing how they do and then doing the surgery afterwards.

Yeah, that's always the case.

There's, you know, each patient, of course, is an individual.

So that being said, yeah, I mean, there's a lot of options for a patient.

Now you mentioned SLT, and I'm kind of curious, you know, if someone responds to the SLT and the eye pressures come down, you know, I think that might tell you that they do have some pretty good trabecular outflow after the SLT, which might make you feel maybe a little bit better that post just cataracts stay sustained at that lower level.

But as you were mentioning, if a patient where you do have that higher eye pressure even after an SLT, and do you wait two months, three months? When do you maybe make that next step, let's say, after you do that SLT?