Posted on 12/05/2009 4:19:11 AM PST by GonzoII
Patients are having their eyes fitted with an artificial lens that allows them to see in high definition.
Surgeons begin the process by implanting the lens into the eye using the standard procedure for cataracts.
Then, for the first time in Britain, they can fine-tune the focus of the lens several days later.
The technique gives patients vision so sharp that it is even better than 20/20 - the best an adult can usually hope for.
Bobby Qureshi, the first ophthalmic surgeon in the UK to use the lens, described it as "a hugely significant development".
It can correct both cataracts and the long-sightedness that usually comes with age.
The lens is made from a special light-sensitive silicone.
By shining ultraviolet light on specific parts of the lens, surgeons can change its shape and curvature, sharpening the image seen by the patient.
Mr Qureshi told Sky News: "We have the potential here to change patients' vision to how it was when they were young.
"The change is so accurate that we can even make the lens bifocal or varifocal, so as well as giving them good vision at distance we can give them good vision for reading.
"They won't need their glasses at all."
(Excerpt) Read more at news.sky.com ...
That would be nice. Unfortunately at 45 my chances of getting much medical help grow slimmer by the day.
You’ve got to be kidding! Old at 45?
Oh, okay, I think I gotcha now!
Just old in the sense that the little nazis we’re pumping out of colleges see me as a potential source of simple labor till I die. (if my carbon footprint is small and I don’t eat much.
Sheesh. I had 20/15 up until about 50 yo and now at 69 it's 20/20 but slightly farsighted.
Sheesh. I had 20/15 up until about 50 yo and now at 69 it's 20/20 but slightly farsighted.
Sorry about the double. Need more coffee.
I bet you need glasses, heh, heh!
Many years ago the eye doc told me I had “20/20+”. I wasn’t quite sure what that was, but I did have very good vision especially could see well at a distance. I do have astigmatism though and I think years of close work and wearing glasses to correct the astigmatism has worsened my vision and now age as well is starting to make it worse.
Off-the-shelf weak, like 1.5, reading glasses.
The wife had lasik about 10 years ago and that got her to 20/20. However, it has been downhill since and is about 20/70 now.
“By shining ultraviolet light on specific parts of the lens, surgeons can change its shape and curvature...”
So, my question is - what happens when you spend a day at the beach in all that UV light? (Do the lenses melt at the sight of a bikini?)
I’d get eye implants if it would make every woman look like a supermodel.
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