IOL power mislabelling.

Prompted by four cases of IOL power mislabelling, a method was developed which allowed the measurement of the IOL power using a keratometer. The principle of operation was to measure the curvature of the steepest surface of the IOL through a minus lens by which the size of the mires was brought into the measuring range of the keratometer. With this method the IOL power was checked in three random IOL samples from three companies. Although no large errors in IOL power labelling were encountered in these samples, the error of labelling was found to differ significantly between the companies. It was concluded, that poor manufacturing control of IOL power may add to the sources of error in IOL power prediction.