CTAK for Keratoconus: Dr. Rahul Tonk’s Full Presentation at AAO 2025

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Learn about CTAK (Corneal Tissue Addition for Keratoconus) in this full presentation, Successfully Establishing CTAK in Your Practice and How to Educate Patients and Staff, from Rahul Tonk, M.D. at the AAO 2025 Annual Meeting. CTAK is a customized, tissue-based approach available from CorneaGen to help reshape and regularize the keratoconic cornea using sterile, gamma-irradiated donor tissue tailored by CorneaGen to each patient’s tomography.
In this session, Dr. Tonk walks through:
• What CTAK is and how it works
• How tomography guides customization
• Steps in surgical planning
• Day-of-surgery workflow, pearls, and technique
• Early outcomes and patient selection
• How CTAK fits into the broader treatment landscape for keratoconus Whether you’re a corneal specialist, eye surgeon, clinical educator, or simply curious about the newest innovations in keratoconus care, this session offers an in-depth look at the approach, rationale, and clinical experience behind CTAK.

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