Vision Correction with ReSTOR

Today, the excitement and advancement in cataract surgery focuses on the new lenses that are available. The advancement of technology in IOL's is a space-age plastic lens that is surgically implanted to permanently replace the old, hard natural lens of the eye. These technologies have been demonstrated to have the same safety as decades old traditional lens implants, but can also provide what many of our patients say they really want: greater freedom from glasses - not just distance glasses, but readers too. This surgery can allow many people in their late forties and older (with or without cataracts) to return to the vision they had when they were younger and did not need glasses.

The ReSTOR® lens uses a new strategy for collecting and distributing light and doesn't rely on the focusing muscles, which can lose effectiveness with age. Surgical techniques using the ReSTOR® lens can fix farsightedness and nearsightedness for our patients and improve vision for computer and reading distances, as well.

IS THIS NEW LENS TECHNOLOGY FOR EVERYONE?

BENEFITS OF CATARACT SURGERY

RISKS OF CATARACT SURGERY

SECONDARY CATARACTS

A small percentage of people develop a condition known as secondary cataracts in the months or years after cataract surgery. In these cases, new cloudy cells gradually cover the back of the lens capsule, just as frost covers a window. Light cannot be focused clearly through these cloudy cells, and vision is once again obscured. People may fear that their cataracts have returned. Actually, it is not possible for a cataract to grow back completely, so the term "secondary cataract" is misleading.

Fortunately, secondary cataracts can be treated very easily. A quick, painless laser treatment makes a small opening in the back of the lens capsule, without disturbing the lens implant or any other tissues within the eye. Light can once again be focused on the retina and clear vision is restored.