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PanOptix Lenses

I tell patients that if you 18 to 88 years old and want independence from glasses and contacts we have the procedure for you.  For younger patients (under 50 especially), we have laser corrective surgery like Lasik/SMILE.  For the other 50 crowd, we have natural lens replacement with advanced intraocular lenses called refractive lens exchange RLE. 

These premium lenses can be selected to correct nearsightedness, farsightedness, astigmatism, computer and reading vision. When patients comes in for their evaluation we discuss their needs, expectations, and lifestyle to determine what is the best procedure and the best lens choice.  While there is no “perfect” intraocular lens, we are committed to matching the best technology with each individual patient’s preferences and needs.

In RLE surgery we remove dysfunctional lens and replace it with a premium lens. Once they have this surgery when they get older they will not need cataract surgery because they have already replaced their natural lens.  In cataract surgery we replace the natural lens that has become cloudy with age and offer the patient the same options that the RLE patients receive. 

While we never guarantee that a pair of glasses will never touch your face again, the Clareon PanOptix lens is the lens voted “most likely to get you out of glasses and contacts.” It is superb at custom distance, intermediate and up close reading vision. The tradeoff is that some patients will notice glare, haloes or even rings around lights especially at night. For most, even if they experience this, it does go away with a process known as neuroadaptation - which just means that the body and brain can adapt to the technology over time. Patients that are extremely motivated to minimize all glasses use are good candidates for PanOptix. Patients who do a significant amount of night work or night driving, engineers, photographers and artists would be less likely to be good candidates for this lens. There is some loss of contrast sensitivity with this lens that is not noticeable to most.

The data that the  In the United States trial 99% of PanOptix patients stated they would choose the lens again.  Now with the lens in the United States we have the opportunity to offer some of our patients this technology.  But I tell patients that there is not a one size fits all surgery or lens.  In our consultation we customize the treatment plan to your vision needs, eye anatomy, age, future needs, and expectations.  We have invested in the latest technology to help us look at your eye in many different ways so that we can customize a plan for your specific eye.  We have also have invested heavily in technology to provide the surgeons the ability to perform advanced surgery.   The Zeiss Callisto computer assisted Surgical System will optimize the success of the PanOptix.

Toyos Clinic has published their results utilizing premium lenses and surgical equipment – J Clin Exp Ophthalmology 2019.  When interviewed by Ocular Surgery News Dr. Rolando Toyos stated, “We look forward to applying these same techniques and technologies from our study to patients who will be good candidates for the PanOptix lens”.

VIVITY

For patients that are not good PanOptix candidates or those that are concerned about potential rings and haloes, the Clareon Vivity can be an excellent choice. Like the PanOptix, Vivity offers excellent customized distance vision, intermediate computer vision and good (but not great) reading vision. With Vivity, patients may wear low powered reading or distance glasses but will experience less halo, glare and starburst than with the PanOptix lens.

AcrySof® Toric

The Technology behind the AcrySof® Toric IOL offers precise astigmatic correction that reduces or eliminates corneal astigmatism and delivers significantlly improved distance-vision without glasses or contact lenses for cataract patients with pre-existing astigmatism.Quality Distance Vision in Just One Step With the AcrySof® Toric lens, your distance vision can be clear and vibrant.

Untin now, the most common lens implants offered only correnction for near-sightedness or far-sightedness. This means, after the natural lens is extracted and the new acrylic lens is implanted, a patient with astigmatism is still reliant upon spectacles to see clearly.

Using principles similar to Toric contact lenses, Alcon Laboratories has developed the AcrySof® Toric Intraocular lens to provide individuals with distance vision and astigmatic correnction after cataract surgery or lens replacement surgery. This type of IOL enables many patients with corneal astigmatism to function adequately without glasses or contact lenses for distance vision.