With the introduction of clear cornea phacoemulsification, corneal suturing became unnecessary. In refractive surgical procedures and in intravitreal operative drug administrations (IVOM), suturing is only required in exceptional cases. Even with the new techniques of lamellar keratoplasty and trocar-guided pars plana vitrectomies, sutures are hardly necessary anymore. Fortunately, the number of eyeball injuries requiring corneal suturing has continuously decreased over the past decades. Consequently, with the simultaneous increase in surgical procedures in ophthalmology in recent decades, the proportion of operations requiring suturing under the microscope has decreased.