Intraocular Lens Implants

Intraocular Lens Implants are presently being utilized as another way of delivering your best possible vision. Intraocular Lens Implants are powerful eye surgery tools with almost unlimited potential to correct refractive errors (nearsightedness and farsightedness). By implanting a lens inside the eye, the need for glasses or contact lenses is virtually eliminated.

The Intraocular Lens Implants is unique in that the thin intraocular lens implant is placed in the eye without removing the natural lens of the eye, as is required in cataract surgery. Given that the natural lens of the eye is not removed, the Intraocular Lens Implants simply enhances rather than replaces the natural lens, allowing the retention of your natural focusing capability (accommodation) for near, midrange and far focusing tasks.

Implantable Lenses (Phakic IOL)

No contact lenses to wash, no glasses to remember, no risks of LASIK or other laser eye surgeries.

Surgically implanted lenses, also called phakic IOL's (intraocular lenses), are a breakthrough new option for people seeking a permanent correction of common vision errors, such as myopia (nearsightedness).

These Intraocular Lens Implants work like a contact lens inside the eye, and are placed between the clear front covering of the eye (cornea) and the iris (colored portion of the eye), or sometimes just behind the iris.

Intraocular Lens Implants are similar in size and design to those intraocular lenses used in cataract surgery. However, Intraocular Lens Implants are placed inside of eyes that still have their natural lenses, unlike in cataract surgery where an Intraocular Lens Implants replaces the natural lens that has turned cloudy (a cataract).

The eye's refraction needs to be stable for at least six months before performing Intraocular Lens Implantation surgery. Once implanted, Intraocular Lens Implants cannot be felt in the eye, and there is no maintenance required at all. These lenses will last your entire lifetime. If vision changes after implantation, this can be corrected with glasses, removal of the lens entirely, or replacement of the lens with a different prescription.