PRELEX and ReSTOR® – Presbyopia and Cataracts Solution from Our Cary Practice
PRELEX and ReSTOR®
The AcrySof® ReSTOR®, intraocular lens (IOL) is a bifocal lens that can be used in cataract surgery or in a refractive surgery procedure, PRELEX, to reduce or eliminate our Raleigh / Durham / Cary patients’ need for reading glasses or bifocals. Dr. Dean Dornic is one of the few surgeons in the country trained and experienced in the use of this new, high tech intraocular lens.
PRELEX
Presbyopic Lens Exchange, or PRELEX, is a new alternative to laser surgery in the treatment of nearsightedness, farsightedness, and presbyopia. Using a technique originally developed for the treatment of cataracts, PRELEX at our Cary vision correction center uses the AcrySof® ReSTOR®, intraocular lens (IOL) to reduce or eliminate the need for glasses or contact lenses.
As people age, their natural lenses thicken and lose their flexibility, making it more difficult to focus on near objects. This condition, normal for most people over 40, is known as presbyopia. The PRELEX procedure involves replacement of the defective, “stiff” lens of the eye with an artificial, bifocal lens. The ReSTOR®, bifocal implant allows the recipient to enjoy clear distance and near vision without the need for reading glasses or bifocals. Because the PRELEX procedure involves a lens placed inside the eye, it is not affected by smoke, rain, fog or other environmental conditions. Recipients cannot feel the lens in their eye. The focusing problems of presbyopia are corrected permanently for the overwhelming majority of patients and the ReSTOR®, bifocal implant will never need to be replaced. Also because the eye’s natural lens has been replaced with an artificial clear lens that never clouds or yellows, our Raleigh / Durham patients who receive ReSTOR® bifocal implants will never develop cataracts and will never require cataract surgery.
Cataracts and ReSTOR®
The ReSTOR® intraocular lens can also be used during cataract surgery. Cataracts are a clouding or opacification of the eye’s natural lens. The only effective remedy for cataracts is replacement of the cloudy lens with a clear artificial lens or implant. Until recently, all artificial lens were “monofocal”, that is, they focused only at one distance. Therefore, if a cataract patient received an implant that focused their eyes at distance, they would need reading glasses or bifocals to read or see things up close. With the introduction of the ReSTOR® implant, our Raleigh / Durham / Cary cataract patients can choose to have their cataractous lens replaced with a bifocal intraocular lens thus not only clearing up their vision, but achieving independence from eyeglasses.
To find out more about the ReSTOR® IOL for PRELEX or the replacement of cataracts in the Raleigh / Durham area, contact our Cary laser vision correction center today.
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Laser Eye Center of Carolina
Eye Specialists of Carolina, PA
3701 NW Cary Parkway, Suite 101
Cary, NC 27513
(919) 439-1174
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Eye Specialists of Carolina, PA
1609 Booker Dairy Road
Smithfield, NC 27577
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