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Refractive Surgery For Presbyopia. Presbyopia and refractive surgery Presbyopia is the progressive loss of accommodation. This surgery will replace your eyes natural lens with an artificial intraocular lens IOL to correct your presbyopia. Today we use the laser blended vision approach an option that was made commercially. Refractive lens exchange.
Another refractive surgery option is presbyLASIK. This technique is not perfectly safe. This situation in some cases may be a problem because the first symptoms of presbyopia appear around their forties. However always be sure to under-promise and over-deliver. Just like multifocal IOLs it reduces the quality of vision. Using a laser an ophthalmologist reshapes the cornea for clear far vision in one eye and close-up vision in the other.
Geffen is the director of Optometric and Refractive Services at the Gordon Schanzlin New Vision Institute of TLC Laser Eye Centers in San Diego California.
This surgery will replace your eyes natural lens with an artificial intraocular lens IOL to correct your presbyopia. Accommodation is a quick precise and involuntary action which enables the eye to change the power of the young crystalline lens to see clearly at all distances. The current range of treatments include KAMRA Corneal Inlay Refractive Lens Exchange Implantable Contact Lenses and laser eye surgery with blended vision. Presbyopia affects everybody around age 40 and thereafter. Today we use the laser blended vision approach an option that was made commercially. Current refractive surgery including PRK and LASIK do not cure it.