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The Great Debate: External Versus Endonasal Dacryocystorhinostomy

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Despite recent acceptance of equivalent success between external and endoscopic DCR, more surgeons still prefer and perform greater numbers of external procedures, while reporting higher success rates. Is the tide turning among ophthalmologists? Approaches to DCR surgery may no longer represent such a great debate but a division of experience and training between generations of surgeons! This chapter examines these aspects in the light of extensive literature.

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