Crystalens™
Your vision connects you to the world. Over time, however,
it becomes more difficult to see clearly. That is because your natural
crystalline lens is becoming larger and harder. This prevents your lens
from focusing as it once did and is why you may need glasses or bifocals
to read this right now. This inability to focus, or accommodate, is called
presbyopia and its earliest symptom is a difficulty seeing things that
are close-up.
Over time, your lens will continue to harden, eventually
turning cloudy as it becomes a cataract. It is a natural process that
occurs in most everyone over 50 years of age. While glasses may help initially,
eventually your cataracts will need to be removed.
For the past 30 years, opthalmologists have treated cataracts by replacing
them with artificial lenses, or IOLs. While millions of Americans successfully
undergo this proven surgery each year, in most cases, patients still require
glasses for reading after cataract surgery. That is because all previously
available IOLs were stationary and did not adjust to focus, or accommodate,
until now.
Introducing crystalens™, the first and only accommodating IOL. It
works like the eye's natural lens to allow most patients to see images
that are near (inside 16 inches), intermediate (between 16 and 36 inches)
and distant (36 inches and beyond), without glasses. Crystalens™
is engineered with a hinge designed to allow the optic, or part of the
IOL that you see through, to move back and forth as you constantly change
focus on images around you.
With crystalens™ your vision will not only be brighter, but you
may be free of those things that made you look or feel older. In clinical
tests:
- 98.4% of patients implanted with crystalens™ in
both eyes could pass a driver's test without glasses.
- 100% could see intermediate (24" to 30") without
glasses, the distance for most of life's daily activities.
- 98.4% could see well enough to read the newspaper and
the phone book without glasses.
- Some patients did require glasses for some tasks after
implantation of the crystalens™.
Video
Introducing
crystalens™ - Video (7.29MB)
crystalens™
Medicare Approved-May 2005
Medical
House Call - crystalens™- June 2004
To Learn More About Our crystalens™ Specialists:
Lynn B. McMahan, M.D.
C. Byron Smith, M.D.
Kiper C. Nelson, M.D.
If you are considering Crystalens™ in Hattiesburg or the surrounding Mississippi area, please call
601-264-EYES or email us today to schedule your consultation.
(601)264-3937
1420 S. 28th Ave
Learn how an amazing breakthrough in cataract treatment
could give you more youthful vision
 
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