Summary
SInce years ophthalmologist await the approval of the LAL Light adjustable lens (calhoun VIsion) as it will represent a watershed in intraocular lens technology.
Analysis
While current premium iols allow the treatment of astimatism and glare/haloes and even presbyopia, there is still a subset of patients that are unhappy or have unwanted visual outcome and refractive surprises. With a Light Adjustable lens a surgeon will have the ability to fine tune the outcome after lens implantation and even later if a patient wants to change the visual outcome or target refraction. In the past if a patient was unsatisfied with a lens outcome it meant removing the lens (not alwasy so easy or safe) or another procedure such as LASIK. WIth the LAL a patient will be able to have a simple, short, painless and reversible treatment that can achieve the desired goal. This is revolutionary technology that will foreever change the playing field as far as intraocular lenses are concerned.
