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To: alloysteel
the cut is made with a laser beam. The old natural lens is burned loose, and the artificial lens (which can be crafted to give near-perfect vision)

My doctor used a tiny needle or scalpel. But it was painless, with a quick recovery.

Then a device (the same device which made the cut? I'm not sure) uses ultrasound to liquify the lens and vacuum it out.

Then another device unrolls the new lens, like a carpet.

This new lens only comes in 1/2 diopters, it's not custom crafted (unless things have changed) which mean you might not get perfect correction. But close to.

44 posted on 10/09/2021 11:41:08 AM PDT by Angelino97
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To: Angelino97
the inside of the new artificial lens may develop a cloudiness, but this is quickly and easily treated by the eye doctor with a quick blast of - laser light.

Not the inside of the new artificial lens, but the eye sack that held the old lens.

48 posted on 10/09/2021 11:42:32 AM PDT by Angelino97
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