The eye's natural crystalline lens can be replaced with an artificial lens—known as an intraocular lens—to restore clarity and lead to a vast improvement in quality of life for patients with cataracts ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Multifocal intraocular lenses and accommodating intraocular lenses can be paired with a normal crystalline lens ...

Corneal refractive surgery has been performed on millions of patients to decrease their spectacle dependence. Most of these patients have high expectations of visual function—but as these patients age ...

Patients now have several exciting—although not yet perfect—multifocal intraocular lenses (IOLs) for presbyopia correction from which to choose. Currently in the United States, the recently approved ...

Multifocal lenses use multiple refractive zones built in rings to give patients distance and near vision. These lenses are designed to address the problem of presbyopia, in which people over the age ...

Santa Ana-based Abbott Medical Optics continues to forge ahead with new products. The maker of eye devices, a unit of Chicago-based Abbott Laboratories, recently introduced two versions of its Tecnis ...

The evidence on the implantation of multifocal (non-accommodative) intraocular lenses (IOLs) during cataract surgery raises no major safety concerns. Current evidence on the procedure's efficacy shows ...

A research collaboration between Moran's Intermountain Ocular Research Center and Texas surgeon Morgan Micheletti, MD, aims to answer key questions that could make cataract surgery in outer space ...

Here are 17 facts and business and legal issues about premium intraocular lenses, a recent technology that can free many cataract surgery patients from having to wear eyeglasses. 1. In one of the few ...