**11. Concluding remarks**

An estimated 80 million (and increasing by millions every year) cases of glaucoma patients worldwide are a challenge to the ingenuity of the surgeons and the producers of glaucoma medications and devices.

We have understood the presence and importance of lymphatics under the conjunctiva and in the adjoining tissues. We have tried to preserve the lymphatics by minimally invasive techniques of TCTCF and especially MTF. Besides new surgical innovations, we have also made use of newer viscoelastic and spongy materials in the hope of preserving the filtration tracks as well as saving the conjunctival lymphatics. Much work/research remains to be done before we and other workers in the field can declare a victory over the worldwide blinding epidemic of glaucoma. Needless to say, Fugo blade is helpful in making TCF and MTF tracks. As yet there is no other tool that can do the same.
