Light Adjustable Lens (LAL)
Light Adjustable Lens (LAL) is the most technologically advanced lens implant available in the US. The LAL is a lens whose power can be adjusted after cataract surgery simply by shining a beam of ultraviolet light on the lens. The lens has photosensitive molecules that allow the doctors at Tekwani Vision Center to adjust the lens shape in a precise, customized pattern without additional surgery. By controlling the pattern of light, the lens implant shape can be adjusted to correct residual near-sightedness, far-sightedness and astigmatism resulting in the sharpest vision available. This allows us to design, trial and customize each patient's vision beyond what standard technology can. In FDA studies, patients with LAL had a higher percentage of 20/20 vision without glasses compared with other available technologies. LAL is also designed to have additional depth of focus allowing for a broad range of vision.
Multifocal Lenses
Seeing distance, intermediate and near—with a single lens.
Seeing clearly for both distance and reading; life without glasses is something most have dreamed about for most of their lives or were able to do at a younger age. During cataract surgery at Tekwani Vision Center, your natural, cloudy lens is removed and replaced with a new, implantable intraocular lens (IOL). The latest advances in premium IOL technology can restore clear vision for distance and near following cataract surgery.
Where your grandparents had the choices of bifocal or trifocal glasses, today’s multifocal IOLs provide the same vision correction without the maintenance necessary when relying on corrective glasses or contact lenses. We utilizes all of the technologies available to create a custom lifestyle treatment depending upon your visual needs.
Some of the lenses he chooses from to help reduce your dependence on glasses include:
- • Tecnis Multifocal and Toric
- • Tecnis Odyssey
- • Tecnis Eyhance
- • PanOptix Trifocal and Toric
- • Vivity
- • Vivity Toric
At Tekwani Vision Center there is an option to help turn back the clock and greatly decrease or eliminate your dependence on glasses compared to standard or monofocal IOLs.
Astigmatism Correcting Lenses
Astigmatism correction in an implantable lens.
During cataract surgery at Tekwani Vision Center, your natural, cloudy lens is removed and replaced with a new, implantable intraocular lens (IOL). A standard IOL implant will improve your vision, but it doesn’t correct astigmatism, a form of visual distortion that is caused by the shape of your eyeball. If you have astigmatism and you get a standard IOL implant, you will still need glasses for all of your activities. At Tekwani Vision Center, our cataract patients with astigmatism are offered a Toric lens to correct this condition.
The Toric IOL is designed to correct larger amounts of astigmatism and is aligned to negate astigmatism at the time of cataract surgery. With a Toric IOL, we are able to provide sharper vision and less reliance on glasses at a distance.