Laser pointer maculopathy - on the rise?

Tobias Torp-PedersenLotte WelinderBirgitte JustesenUlrik Correll ChristensenSøren Solborg BjerrumMorten La CourJon Peiter Saunte

Published in: Acta ophthalmologica (2018)

High-powered laser pointers have become readily available on the internet, and they have the potential to induce lasting visual loss. More than half of the published laser pointer maculopathy cases since the first incidence in 1999 have been published in 2014-2017. We suspect that incidence of exposure and subsequent visual loss is rising, and we encourage national legislators to regulate this market.

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