Dr. Thomas A Oetting MD
Ophthalmologist
200 Hawkins Dr Iowa City IA, 52242Rating
4/5
About
Dr. Thomas Oetting is an ophthalmologist practicing in Iowa City, IA. Dr. Oetting specializes in eye and vision care. As an ophthalmologist, Dr. Oetting can practice medicine as well as surgery. Opthalmologists can perform surgeries because they have their medical degrees along with at least eight years of additional training. Dr. Oetting can diagnose and treat diseases, perform eye operations and prescribe eye glasses and contacts. Ophthalmologists can also specialize even further in a specific area of eye care.
Education and Training
Duke University School of Medicine 1991
Board Certification
OphthalmologyAmerican Board of OphthalmologyABO
Provider Details
Expert Publications
Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Indocyanine green staining in traumatic cataract.
- A paradigm shift in cataract surgery: less for the surgeon to do--more for the nurses and technicians to do.
- Traumatic phacocele.
- Linear posterior capsule opacification with the AcrySof intraocular lens.
- Presumed iris hemangioma associated with multiple central nervous system cavernous hemangiomas.
- Preventing and managing cataract complications: it takes a village.
- Pop-and-chop nucleofractis.
- Diamond iris retractor configuration for small-pupil extracapsular or intracapsular cataract surgery.
- Retained posterior segment indocyanine green dye after phacoemulsification.
- Indocyanine green toxicity.
- Teaching and assessing professionalism in ophthalmology residency training programs.
- Cerulean posterior capsule opacity.
- Surgical competency in residents.
- Stepwise approach to establishing an ophthalmology wet laboratory.
- Parachute-like harness to position patients with severe kyphosis during cataract surgery.
Treatments
- Cataracts
- Diabetes
- Macular Degeneration
- Glaucoma
- Type 2 Diabetes
- Presbyopia
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