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?

This is a decision you will make with your doctor. Only an experienced eye physician can determine if a patient is a good candidate for these procedures. The best candidate is over 45, has pupils that are not too large, little astigmatism, and eyes that are healthy, other than having cataracts. Although the lens is FDA approved in patients with cataracts for the correction of presbyopia (loss of the eye's flexibility to change focus), some of our vision correction candidates without cataracts may be candidates for the advanced technology lens implant. These lenses can correct most degrees of near- and farsightedness (generally, myopia and hyperopia from -10.00 to +7.00). Astigmatism may be corrected at the time of implantation with "relaxing incisions," or after the implantation, by performing a LASIK or PRK procedure. Patients with inside-the-eye inflammation (iritis or uveitis), diabetic retinopathy, macular disease, or other active eye disease may not be candidates for the lens. Prior LASIK does not necessarily exclude a patient from being a candidate for an advanced technology lens implant procedure. In view of the fact that prior vision correction surgery makes the calculation of an implant's power much less exact, these patients require a case-by-case determination of individual concerns. Patients who already have a lens implant may not have an advanced technology lens in that eye, but some may be candidates for this treatment in the other eye.

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