Lens
Surgery
Lens Surgery is perhaps the best alternative for people suffering from more severe prescriptions and is also performed to remove cataracts. Lens replacement surgery corrects your refractive error through replacing your eye’s natural eye lens with an intraocular lens (IOL). By replacing the defective lens, you achieve clear vision and to a larger extent minimise dependency on reading glasses or bifocals.
Presbyopia and its Correction
As we reach our forties and beyond we develop presbyopia or worsening near focus. This usually means the constant need for reading glasses. To many healthy and active individuals this can be limiting. They often seek a solution for continued spectacle independence. This can be provided by safe and effective surgical procedures.
Refractive Lens Exchange (RLE)
Refractive surgery is performed in order to reduce/eliminate spectacle dependence. In can be combined with cataract surgery or be performed as a Refractive Lens Exchange procedure. Similarly Laser vision correction (LASIK/LASEK) and Implantable lenses (ICL) can be used to correct sight problems in younger patients. I am able to discuss and offer all these solutions.
Implantable Contact Lenses - ICL
ICL treatment is best suited to patients with very high prescriptions of short-sight, long-sight and astigmatism. The lenses used are similar to a very small contact lens that is placed inside the eye, instead of sitting on the surface of the eye as with contact lenses.
EVO ICL
The Implantable Collamer Lens or ICL is a high quality alternative to LASIK or LASEK. It produces high quality vision with no induced dry eye.
Age Related Macular Degeneration - AMD
AMD is an age related process which is increasingly common. It can cause otherwise healthy individuals to have a compromised quality of life due to reduced central vision.
The Macula Lens
This revolutionary Lens implant allows patients with AMD to improve their ability to see. The procedure is safe and effective. In addition it is less invasive and expensive than many other lens implant alternatives available. It is now available in London.
Cataract Surgery
A cataract occurs when the eye’s lens becomes cloudy. Cataract surgery restores clear natural vision and can eliminate the need for glasses at the same time. As we age or we develop certain diseases, the lens in our eye can becomes opaque. This reduces the amount of light entering the eye resulting in dull and reduced vision. Cataract surgery is the only method to restore vision in this instance. It is safe and effective. If combined with a premium lens implant it can also result in spectacle freedom. Simulated vision with cataract with the picture on the left and after cataract surgery below.
Lens Treatment for Reading Glasses
After the age of forty-five, the majority of patients will require reading glasses (Presbyopia). This condition is brought on by the natural ‘stiffening’ of the lens inside your eye.
Multifocals
Monofocals
The eye is purposefully treated with one eye for short sightedness and distance vision for the other using monofocals.
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Types of Lenses
After the age of forty-five, the majority of patients will require reading glasses (Presbyopia). This condition is brought on by the natural ‘stiffening’ of the lens inside your eye.
Multifocals
Multifocal lenses also eliminate or reduce the need for reading glasses (presbyopia). This treatment can ‘turn back the clock’ to restore youthful vision for close up, intermediate and distance vision.
Monofocals
Monofocal lenses correct your vision for good distance vision only. Following the insertion of these lenses, reading glasses will be required regardless of your age, unless you opt for a slightly short-sighted lens in one eye (Monovision).