The First And Only IOL Adjustable After Cataract Surgery—The Light Adjustable Lens™
Despite numerous advances in modern cataract surgery technologies, many patients continue to be disappointed with their vision outcomes. This intraocular lens allows our doctors to optimize your vision after your cataract surgery rather than trying to predict how the IOL will perform in your eye before your surgery.
With the Light Adjustable Lens™ (LAL®), you will have the unique opportunity to adjust and preview your vision based on your personal desires and lifestyle requirements. This optimization is done by your eye doctor after lens implantation through a series of light treatment procedures that take only a few minutes each.
The Light Adjustable Lens delivers superior vision outcomes that nonadjustable IOLs cannot match.
In a study of 600 subjects, those who received the LAL followed by adjustments were twice as likely to achieve 20/20 vision at 6 months without glasses as those who received a standard (fixed) monofocal IOL.
Achieving Customized Vision With The Light Adjustable Lens
The Light Adjustable Lens is made of a special photosensitive material that changes the shape and power of your implanted lens in response to ultraviolet (UV) light. Light treatments are delivered in your doctor’s office with the Light Delivery Device™ (LDD™) after your eye has healed.
You will preview possible vision outcomes with your doctor and choose a prescription for your adjustable lens based on your preferences and lifestyle requirements. After surgery, you can test drive your vision and customize it further through a series of light treatments that precisely reshape your implanted lens to the correction that is needed.
Light Treatments With your doctor’s input, the LDD noninvasively delivers UV light to your Light Adjustable Lens to adjust your vision to the desired target. The system gives your doctor the flexibility to make adjustments and refinements to meet your specific criteria. Between one and three light treatments, each lasting approximately 90 seconds, are required. The total number of light treatments is based on achievement of the desired visual outcome that you and your doctor selected. Once you have achieved your final optimal vision, the lens power is permanently locked with two final light treatments to prevent any further changes. When you experience the results of your adjustments, you will better understand the value of adjusting and customizing your vision after your surgery.
What To Expect After Surgery
In the weeks following your surgery, you and your doctor will work together to optimize your vision using UV light treatments. During this period, you will need to wear UV-protective glasses provided to you by your doctor. These glasses will protect your eyes from exposure to all other sources of indoor and outdoor UV light, which can cause uncontrolled changes to the Light Adjustable Lens. The UV-protective glasses should be worn from the time of lens implantation until 24 hours after your last light treatment is completed. At that point, no further changes can be made to the implanted Light Adjustable Lens, and you can remove the UV-protective glasses and enjoy your custom vision!