At this time, there are no effective medical treatments for the dry form of macular degeneration.

The standard treatment for wet macular degeneration uses a laser to coagulate the CNV and stop it from spreading. Unfortunately, most people with the wet form of the disease are not good candidates for this type of treatment.

Because effective treatment is for this disease is limited to a small minority of people, a number of new treatments for macular degeneration are being researched and tested at this time.

The standard treatment for wet macular degeneration uses a laser to coagulate the CNV and stop it from spreading.

Photodynamic therapy (PDT)is a new technique for treating wet AMD which should be widely available in the year 2000.

Unfortunately, effective treatment for macular degeneration is limited to a small minority of people.

Here we show some new methods of treatment that are being developed and tested.