Toric IOL and Cataract Surgery
June 28, 2011
What is the outcome for patients who have Toric IOL replacement for cataract and would like to have one eye corrected for distance vision and the other eye corrected for near vision. Does this create a problem? Headaches, compromised depth perception, or any other problems? What is the success rate?
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your question is relevant regardless of toric or not. toric lenses give you better uncorrected vision, for they address the astigmatism.
you are asking about monovision, and the success rate is very high. there may be slight loss of depth perception, or maybe headache if you cannot tolerate the imbalance, but again, vast majority of patients are happy. most of the time we aim for about -1.5 in the non-dominant eye–this gives good computer distance vision.
I’ve had this done over a year ago…very successful. Only require glasses for driving to accommodate the eye with the near vision (monovision) lens.
FYI I’m 80 yo.