No, but a large National Eye Institute study is currently underway. If antioxidant supplements help prevent AMD, it is most likely with people who rarely eat vegetables, fruits, or whole grain. I have drusen. One of the two major presentations of AMD, the better medical terms for it are atrophic AMD and geographic atrophy . They are the early stage of an evolving scar, and can be seen as the suppliers of raw material in the formation of a scar.
Many patients develop scars in one eye only.
If laser treatment is used on such a scar, there is an immediate, substantial loss of central vision. Currently, at Charles Retina Institute we do not consider the immediate loss of function worth the prospective gain, and do not perform laser treatment on the fovea itself. Reading and facial recognition, for example, would probably be preserved in this scenario. Reading and facial recognition would be adversely affected in this case. The dye concentrates in new vessels, and the laser interacts with the dye to produce singlet oxygen which selectively damages abnormal vessels.