A
wonderful new technology recently approved by the FDA is the Accommodating Lens
named Crystalens™. For patients who undergo Refractive Lens Exchange or Refractive
Cataract Surgery this exciting technology enables both eyes
to focus at all ranges of vision (distance and near) without the need for glasses.
Crystalens works like the eye’s natural lens to allow most patients to
see images that are near (inside 16 inches) intermediate (between 16 and 36
inches) and distance (36 inches and beyond) without glasses. Crystalens™
is engineered with a hinge designed to allow the implant that you see through
to move back and forth as you constantly change focus on images around you.
A new hope With Crystalens™ your vision will not only be brighter, but you may be free of those things that made you look or feel older. Crystalens™ will give you the ability to reconnect you to the people and things that matter most.
In clinical tests:
98.4% of patients implanted with crystalens™ in both eyes could pass a drivers’s test without glasses
100% could see intermediate (24” to 30”) without glasses, the distance for most of life’s daily activities
98.4% could see well enough to read the newspaper and the phone book without glasses
Some patients did require glasses for some tasks after implantation of the crystalens™
For more information to see if Crystalens™ is right for you contact Dr. Behler at 727-461-5552