The latest eye implants could help restore vision or provide “supervision” to people who have to wear glasses at middle or old age, according to leading British surgeon Bobby Qureshi.
Thousands of people, who have developed cataracts or become short sighted with age, have been offered the prospect of 20/20 vision thanks to light-adjustable lenses (LAL).
The lenses, similar to the current lens implants (intraocular lenses- IOL), cost £600 each -with the total cost of the operation and adjustment being anything up to £3000- and are currently used in Germany and the USA.
However, with these lenses, doctors can adjust them after they have been implanted, tailoring the amount of correction to an individual’s needs and potentially eliminating the need for glasses.
They are being offered for the first time in Britain to private patients having operations for cataract or presbyopia (age-related deterioration of sight) at the London Eye Hospital.
The downsides to the implant is that patients have to stay out of bright sunlight or wear UV-protective glasses for two weeks, until they’ve had the adjustments done. Also the cost of the treatment may increase if the patient requires repeat visits to hospital.
![Reblog this post [with Zemanta]](http://img.zemanta.com/reblog_e.png?x-id=6ad65beb-9246-49aa-95a7-5ec4f1cf00ed)
No comments:
Post a Comment