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Visian Implantable Collamer® Lens - Visian
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It's an unavoidable fact of life that aging and reading glasses go
hand-in-hand. For most people, it's a fact they would just as soon
ignore. The good news is that today there are vision correction options
that may be able to reduce or eliminate your dependence on glasses. One
of those options is refractive lens exchange, a new approach to vision
correction that uses proven surgical techniques to achieve dramatically
improved vision for many patients.
With this procedure, we replace your eye's natural lens with a lens
implant. Using a sophisticated artificial lens, we may be able to reduce
your dependence on reading glasses or bifocals and improve your distance
vision. While it sounds like a cutting-edge surgery, in fact, surgeons
perform a similar procedure over two million times each year on cataract
patients
Refractive lens exchange bears many similarities to today's cataract
surgery. As a medical procedure, cataract surgery is one of safest and
most frequently performed procedures today. Cataract surgery, like
refractive lens exchange, involves the removal of the natural lens and
its replacement with an artificial lens.
To replace the lens, the surgeon makes a micro incision (about 3 mm)
under the cornea.
The surgeon breaks up the lens using ultrasonic vibrations and then
gently removes it from the eye. The natural lens is replaced by an
"implantable" lens, which is inserted through the micro incision.
Typically, the second eye will be corrected about two weeks after the
first procedure is performed.
The best candidates for refractive lens exchange are farsighted patients
who need reading glasses or bifocals. These patients typically receive
the best visual results after the procedure.
However, this procedure may also be the right solution if you are too
nearsighted, farsighted or have corneas that are too thin for laser
vision correction. It is also a viable alternative for those who want to
eliminate their dependence on traditional or progressive bifocals and
those who may be showing signs of developing cataracts.
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