My dad (67 years old) has very bad eyes and he is legally bind without extreme correction. He's had quite a few surgeries including cataracts surgery and a cornea transplant. His vision is still bad and his doctors are giving him 2 options to help with the problem. The first is to replace the lens in his eye with a prescription lens (like in cataracts surgery) or place in a implantable contact lens on top of the lens he currently has in his eye. He's seen 2 very reputable doctors about this and each doctor recommended opposite treatments.
Our first doctor recommended the implantable contact because the procedure is low risk and removable so if it doesn't work they can pop it out and replace the lens in eye. However the implantable lens surgery has not been done for very long so there isn't long term data on the surgery. Our second opinion doctor wants to just replace the lens in the eye since that has the highest probability of working the first time and will minimize the need for future surgeries which is a concern because risks his transplant cornea.
I was wondering if anyone here has the implantable lens surgery done? Were there any complications and what was the recovery like? any complications?
http://www.wired.com/medtech/health/news/2004/09/64803
phakic IOL
Cliffs
Dad = Bad eyes needs eye surgery to see better
not a candidate for laser eye surgery
option 1 replace the lens in his eye with a new one
option 2 have an implantable contact lens placed in his eye
seen 2 doctors, doc 1 suggest option 1, doc 2 suggests option 2
Our first doctor recommended the implantable contact because the procedure is low risk and removable so if it doesn't work they can pop it out and replace the lens in eye. However the implantable lens surgery has not been done for very long so there isn't long term data on the surgery. Our second opinion doctor wants to just replace the lens in the eye since that has the highest probability of working the first time and will minimize the need for future surgeries which is a concern because risks his transplant cornea.
I was wondering if anyone here has the implantable lens surgery done? Were there any complications and what was the recovery like? any complications?
http://www.wired.com/medtech/health/news/2004/09/64803
phakic IOL
Cliffs
Dad = Bad eyes needs eye surgery to see better
not a candidate for laser eye surgery
option 1 replace the lens in his eye with a new one
option 2 have an implantable contact lens placed in his eye
seen 2 doctors, doc 1 suggest option 1, doc 2 suggests option 2