SCENE + HEARD: Discover Review of Ophthalmology: A Mix-and-Match Comeback? By Staff Thursday, July 30, 2020 11:08 PM Though multifocal IOLs are designed to work bilaterally to take advantage of binocular summation, many surgeons have had success mixing and matching different multifocal IOLs to increase the patient’s range of functional vision. Proponents say that mixing and matching complementary multifocals enables surgeons to take advantage of both IOLs’ best features while potentially minimizing common visual side effects such as glare, halo, reduced contrast sensitivity and reduced visual acuity in the intermediate and near ranges. “Mix and match opens a range of different possibilities for treating patients with different visual expectations and different eye characteristics, such as subtle irregular corneas and large pupil sizes,” says César Vilar, MD, a cataract surgeon, medical researcher and medical director of the Hospital de Olhos Francisco Vilar in Teresina, Brazil. Read More