[Femtocataract surgery: a promising future?].

Introduced in 2008, femtolaser is playing a more and more significant role in cataract surgery. This laser allows to perform three steps of the cataract surgery: the corneal incisions, the capsulotomy, and the lens fragmentation. The prooved advantages of the technique are a better quality of the incisions with a reduced induced astigmatism, a better reliability and reproducibility of the capsulotomy with a better stability of the implanted lens and a reduction of the use of ultrasounds which can negatively affect the cornea. To date, there is no prospective randomized study that has proven the superiority of this technique in terms of refractive results or safety compared to the standard manual technique. The significant extracost generated by the laser, which has to be undertaken by the patient, is a limiting factor for both its use and study.