Refractive Vision Correction: A Market Analysis

Abstract

Since the LASIK nearly two decades ago, refractive vision correction remains a vibrant market impacted by technology. Kalorama' s market analysis takes a look at the entire market for non-disease eye treatment procedures. Complete coverage of the vision correction market, including the correction of conditions such as myopia (nearsightedness), presbyobia (an inibility to focus), astigmatism and hyperopia or far-sightedness.

Areas of the market covered in the report include:

• LASIK Equipment Sales
• Bladeless LASIK
• Spacers and RVC Alternatives
• Phakic Intraocular Lens Implants (IOLs)
• Services and Fees.

As part of Kalorama' s this market is broken down. Included as part of the report is:

• RVC Revenues by Service (LASIK, Fees, Spacers, Lens Implants) and Forecasts to 2009
• Breakdown of Services by Provider (Optometrists, Eye Clinics, Vision Care Center, Ophthalmologists and Others)
• Current Procedures and Forecasts by Condition (Myopia, Presbyopia, Hyperopia, Astigmatism)
• Market Share of Key Competitors in RVC, 2006 and 2009.
• Market Share of Key Competitors in IOL Lens Implants, 2006 and 2009

Companies discussed in this report include:

• Advanced Medical Optics
• STAAR Surgical
• Alcon
• Bausch and Lomb
• Nidek Technologies
• Lumenis
• Refractec
• Intra Lase

Market data for Refractive Vision Correction is based on information published in Kalorama' s 2006 Advances in Ophthalmology report. 2006 data are estimates and forecasts to 2009 are based on government health data and interviews with vision correction industry experts interviewed for that report.