With the increase in opportunities to use computers and smartphones, many people may have spent their lives without the use of glasses, but may now find it difficult to see. Aging brings changes in vision, or presbyopia, to everyone. If you originally had nearsightedness and corrected it with contact lenses or spectacles, you may have to wear reading glasses or remove your nearsighted spectacles. Furthermore, as people age, the risk of cataracts and other eye diseases also increases.
More than 1.4 million cataract surgeries are performed annually, and the intraocular lens is used in these surgeries. These are artificial lenses that are placed inside the eye to remove the cloudy lens and replace it with a monofocal, bifocal, or trifocal (multifocal) lens.
In 2019, Alcon, the leading manufacturer of intraocular lenses, introduced PanOptics, and intraocular lens surgery has dramatically evolved,” says Dr. Takayoshi Suzuki, Director of Totsuka Ekimae Suzuki Ophthalmology Clinic. He has been engaged in multifocal IOL surgery for 20 years, including clinical research, and is a specialist in multifocal IOL surgery, having performed more than 2,500 surgeries since the clinic opened.
The key to this surgery is PanOptics, a multifocal intraocular lens. It allows you to see in the distance, in the middle distance, and even at close range, and with just one surgery, presbyopia, nearsightedness, and even astigmatism can be corrected. There is no longer any concern about cataracts or other diseases that can occur in the lens, and in fact, the risk of glaucoma has been shown to be reduced as well.”
