September 15, 2010 @ 04:55 PM — by Jon Dishler
We have just completed the first phase of an FDA trial on the Revision lens for treating farsightedness. The lens has been called the Presbylens but now has just been renamed to the Vue+ lens for future marketing purposes. As was mentioned before, this is a small plastic lens which is placed just under the surface of the eye in one eye only to help with reading and intermediate vision tasks. I have just reviewed the results of our first 18 patients or 36 eyes and was very impressed. All of the patients had a marked improvement in near and intermediate vision with only a small decrease in their distance vision. Some maintained 20/20 at distance while improving markedly at near and the satisfaction rate was very high at 3 months post procedure.
January 18, 2010 @ 09:45 PM — by Jon Dishler
Death, taxes, and needing bifocals when you get older are the three things that that you just cannot avoid. Well, maybe we can help with the last one soon. A company in California called Revision Optics has developed a special small lens that is implanted into the front surface of the eye which builds a bifocal into the vision and for many patients could be a future without the dreaded bifocals. This little plastic lens is about twice the size of the period at the end of this sentence and being so small, it does not make much of an impact on the distance vision. Yet for vision up close, it can make all the difference in the world. We are about to begin an FDA clinical trial on this implant along with four other centers throughout the United States. In Europe it already has the CE mark and will soon be implanted in several locations. It is exciting to be a part of such an elegant solution to an age old problem.
As to death and taxes, well we can't help you with those.
September 07, 2009 @ 07:34 PM — by Jon Dishler
It is an interesting statistic that there are more farsighted people than nearsighted, and many of these people do not even know that there eyes are not perfect until they are in their 30's or 40's. This is a group which rarely goes to the eye doctor until one day, everything up close begins to get blurry. As the years go by, the blur gets worse and even distant objects are not as clear but many still chalk it up to old eyes. In fact, after ruling out rare but serious eye problems, this is most likely what we call hyperopia, and the good news is that LASIK can help. Many people ask if LASIK can cure presbyopia, which is the need for reading glasses that accompanies older age, and the answer is not exactly, but in those cases with farsightedness or hyperopia, there is an opportunity to retain or even improve distance vision while at the same time dramatically improve near vision and without the need for reading glasses. This can benefit many people who did not know that LASIK might be able to help them. Here is the reason why.
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