There is no treatment that can cure or reverse the course of Dry Macular Degeneration. Even the available treatments for the Wet type at present are only meant to slow down the progress of the disease and avoid further loss of vision. The success of the treatment also depends upon the location and the extent of growth of the abnormal blood vessels and damage inflicted to the Macula.

For Wet AMD, a treatment known as Photocoagulation has been found to be effective for sealing leaking or bleeding vessels. In this process, the choroidal neovascularizations (CNVs) or abnormal blood vessels are sealed off and destroyed by a high-energy laser beam which may prevent continued damage to the macula and arrest further vision loss. However, it