Adéu, limits.Implantable Lens
A soft lens placed inside your eye, in front of your own. Nothing is removed, and it can be taken out again.
A lens, in front of your own.
Some prescriptions go beyond what reshaping a cornea can do, and some corneas are too thin for laser work at all. For those eyes the answer is not a stronger laser. It is a lens.
A soft lens goes inside the eye through a small opening and sits in front of your natural lens. Nothing is removed and nothing is reshaped. Your own lens stays exactly where it is.
That is also what makes it reversible. The lens can be taken out again.
Nothing is removed. That is the whole difference between this and a lens exchange.
Three steps, Implantable Lens.
The opening is made
A small opening at the edge of the cornea, wide enough for a folded lens to pass through.
The lens goes in
It is folded, passed through the opening and unfolded in the space in front of your natural lens.
It settles into place
The lens sits where it was placed, and your own lens stays where it always was.
Is it for you?
- Your prescription goes beyond what a laser can reshape.
- Your cornea is too thin for laser work.
- You would rather nothing was removed from your eye.
- You want a correction that can be undone. This one can: the lens comes out again.
Your eyes decide this, not a web page. The free check measures your cornea and tells you the same day whether an implantable lens suits you, whether another of our six methods suits you better, or whether this is not for you at all.
When you get your life back.
- Screens and driving
- 15 days
- Back to work
- 15 days
- Sport
- 15 days
- Eye makeup
- 3 weeks
- Swimming
- 3 weeks
Both eyes are treated in two sessions, usually about a week apart, and every timing above counts from the day of the first eye. Your surgeon gives you your own schedule. The check-ups are included: the day after, one week and one month. You buy the prescribed drops at a pharmacy.
Both sides of it.
What it is good at
- It corrects prescriptions that go beyond what a laser can reshape.
- It suits corneas that are too thin for laser work.
- Nothing is removed. Your natural lens stays where it is.
- It is reversible: the lens can be taken out again.
- Most people are seeing well the next day.
What it asks of you
- This is work inside the eye rather than on the surface of it, and that is a longer conversation to have with a doctor.
- Your natural lens stays, so what the years do to it still happens. From around forty-five it stiffens in every eye, and reading glasses tend to follow.
- We publish no price for it. Lens work is quoted individually at your free check, because the lens your eyes need is what sets it.
The ones people actually ask.
No. It can be taken out again, so it is reversible. That is the difference from a lens exchange, which replaces the eye's natural lens and is permanent.
It is not something you feel or look after. The lens sits inside the eye, in front of your own, and there is nothing on the surface of the eye to notice.
Because a laser reshapes the cornea, and some prescriptions are beyond what reshaping can do. Some corneas are also too thin for laser work. In those eyes a lens does what a laser cannot, and your scan is what tells us which case you are.
Lens work is quoted individually at your free check. What it costs depends on the lens your eyes need, and we would rather give you a real number for your eyes than a range that turns out not to apply to them.
No. Drops numb the eye before anything starts. You feel pressure, not pain.
Leave them out for at least 24 hours before, ideally 2 to 3 days. If that was not possible, come anyway and tell us what you wear.
If this one is not the answer.
We run six. That is the whole point: the one we recommend is the one your eyes need, not the one machine we happen to own.
Adéu, maybe.
Thirty minutes, no cost, and a straight answer the same day. We measure your eyes, learn how you use them, and tell you which of our methods fits, if any of them does.