New - IOL Cataract Surgery

Cataracts

Cataracts can be fixed comfortably, quickly, and effectively with a surgery called phacoemulsification. In this surgery, the lens is broken into pieces, removed, and an artificial lens is put back in it's place. Typically, vision is restored in days. While all surgeries have risks, success rate is extremely high. Surgery is typically very comfortable, with no pain at all.

Almost everyone having cataract surgery will receive a lens implant to replace the cataract. There are different options for which artificial lens to implant with your cataract surgery, including the specialized implants: Restor, Rezoom, and Crystalens. Each of these lenses is designed to help maximize your independence from glasses after cataract surgery, going a step further from more typical 'monofocal' lenses implants. Three are pros and cons to each lens choice, and you should have a careful discussion with your doctor regarding you candidacy for cataract surgery, and which lens may be right for you.

Implantable Contact Lens

For those who cannot have Laser vision correction, or those with very high corrections (high myopia), the implantable collamer lens by Visian may be a wonderful option to reduce or eliminate your dependence on glasses/contacts. This thin lens can gently be slipped inside the eye though a small incision. Once positioned, it rests behind the iris and in front of the natural lens of the eye. As these lenses are tailored to your correction, even for extreme nearsightedness, uncorrected vision is typically improved in dramatic fashion. Further, implantable lenses have a fundamental advantage over laser correction: they can be removed from the eye if need be. The cornea is minimally affected, with no corneal tissue removed. Typically surgery is painless, and recovery is exceedingly fast.

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Until recently, life without reading glasses or bifocals was not an option for most cataract patients.

A cataract is a clouding of the lens in your eye. As light passes through the cataractous lens, it is diffused or scattered. The result is blurred or defocused vision.

How does the AcrySof® ReSTOR® IOL work?

As the eye performs daily activities such as reading, watching television or working at the computer, the eye constantly focuses on objects at varying distances, up close, far away and everything in-between. The ability to quickly change focus throughout this range of vision is called accommodation. This is the eye's ability to change shape to focus on objects at various distances.

Apodization: The gradual reduction or blending of the diffractive step heights. The application of apodization to intraocular lenses is a patented process by Alcon and can only be found in the AcrySof® ReSTOR® IOL.

Apodized Diffractive
Apodization is the gradual tapering of the diffractive steps from the center to the outside edge of a lens to create a smooth transition of light between the distance, intermediate and near focal points. Diffraction involves the bending or spreading of light to multiple focal points as it passes through the lens. On the AcrySof® ReSTOR® IOL, the center of the lens surface consists of an apodized diffractive optic. This means that the series of tiny steps in that center area work together to focus light for near vision.

Near vision: Refers to focal points that are typically 16 inches or closer to your eyes. This is also known as "reading vision." Items that typically fall within the near range of vision are books, newspapers, and medicine bottles.