Advanced Cataract Options
Today's cataract surgery has the potential to not only eliminate your cataracts, but also allow you to regain your youthful lifestyle.
Advanced Lifestyle Lenses
Patients now have the option to enjoy more freedom from glasses and contacts after their cataract procedure. Many patients are excited to learn that they can reduce, and even eliminate, the need for glasses and contacts, allowing them to enjoy life to its fullest. When you have a cataract evaluation at Texas Regional Eye Center, your doctor will discuss these options and help you determine which is best for your vision and your lifestyle.
- Superior outcomes to see clearly from near, intermediate and distance, depending on how you direct your doctor on your adjustments.
- Precise lens adjustments post-surgery.
- Reduce or eliminate glasses.
- Best opportunity to see clearly most of the day near, intermediate and distance.
- Near vision is best in well-lit settings.
- Patients with moderate to significant astigmatism will be able to see distance clearly without glasses. For some it will be for the first time in decades!
- Will need reading glasses for near vision.
- Sharp vision with glasses.
- May need glasses for all activities.
Light Adjustable LensTM
With traditional intraocular lenses (IOLs), your physician performs measurements before your surgery in order to select the best IOL to try to achieve your vision goals. Once your surgery is complete and the IOL has been implanted, your physician has limited options to adjust the lens power. With the Light Adjustable Lens,™ you and your doctor can now customize your vision after your eye has healed from cataract surgery. This is because the Light Adjustable Lens is made of a special photosensitive material that changes the shape and power of your implanted lens in response to ultraviolet (UV) light. You and your physician will have the unique ability to adjust and preview your vision until it meets your personal desires and lifestyle requirements.
What to Expect
The cataract removal and IOL implantation procedure is the same as if you selected a non-adjustable IOL. While your vision is in the adjustment phase, you will be required to wear glasses that prevent UV light from altering your lens to protect it before the final adjustment. With a Light Adjustable Lens™ in the weeks that follow, your physician will customize your vision through a series of non-invasive, painless light treatments that take only a few minutes each. You may need 3 to 5 total light treatments over a period of several weeks to reach your vision goals.
The Light Adjustable Lens delivers superior vision outcomes that non-adjustable lOLs cannot match. In a clinical study, the majority of patients who received the Light Adjustable Lens achieved 20/20 or better vision at 6 months without glasses.'
1. US Food and Drug Administration. Summary of Safety and Effectiveness (SSED) of Light Adjustable Lens and Light Delivery Device system
Cost & Insurance
Most insurances including Medicare cover the cost of the cataract surgery, the surgical facility fee for cataract surgery, and anesthesia fees, and a standard monofocal lens.
However, they do not cover the cost of Advanced Lifestyle lens or Toric Implant Lens. These fees will be discussed with you during your cataract exam based on your coverage and the specific lens recommended to you by your surgeon.