10-20% of glaucoma patients experience significant functional vision loss, and 5-15% may go blind despite available treatments.

“meaningful functional vision and maybe 5 10 15% of patients especially depending where you are in the world will will go blind from glaucoma um including in you know quote unquote developed countries uh there's still a very significant cohort of patients that go blind legally blind and then you know absolute blindness I can't even tell if the lights are on in the room uh so it's it's it's devastating it's Insidious it's hard to detect early um and uh so glaucoma is still a tough one even with all of the treatments that we have”