Each KeraSoft IC lens is custom-made for a patient’s exact needs, and KeraSoft IC lenses can offer increased wear time and improved comfort for patients. KeraSoft IC lenses are a patented combination of the latest technologies in silicone hydrogel materials using geometries from complex mathematics to offer comfortable wear and excellent vision and have been recognized with the UK’s Queen’s Award for Enterprise and Innovation.

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The special lenses were originally developed by British optician and researcher David Harris to help people with color blindness. However, he found that by altering the wavelength of light that reaches the eye, the tinted lenses reduced the visual distortions that make reading difficult for people with dyslexia.

Despite skeptics, parents who bought the ChromaGen Vision lenses for children who were diagnosed with dyslexia are reporting startling improvements in their children’s reading capabilities.

Available as either prescription eyeglasses that look like sunglasses or contact lenses, the ChromaGen Vision glasses typically cost between run $700 to $1,000, while the tinted contact lenses cost about 50% less.

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Unlike LASIK, in which tissue is ablated with an excimer laser after opening a flap, Carl Zeiss’ ReLEx® smile correction technique does not require a flap. Instead, it creates a lens-shaped lenticle in the cornea, which is then removed in one piece through a four-millimeter incision. As a result, the ReLEx smile technique requires an 80 percent smaller surface incision in the upper cornea (flap-side cut) and an about 30 percent smaller lamellar incision (cap cut surface). The biomechanical stability of the vital upper layers of the cornea remains largely intact. For the patient, this means a gentle, minimally invasive operation.

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For example, while current cataract surgery techniques can achieve positive outcomes, the procedure relies on multiple manual steps, which can create variability. Early published data suggest that Laser Refractive Cataract Surgery (LRCS), as offered by the VICTUS platform, may allow physicians to create a more precise, controllable and centered capsulotomy.  LRCS may also allow for less phaco energy to be generated during lens fragmentation, improve intraocular lens placement and potentially enhance patient outcomes and experience.

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As explained by the app developer, Internet security specialist Dan Kaminsky, “DanKam takes the stream of data coming in through the phone’s camera and changes the colors slightly so they fall within the range that people who are color-blind can see.” Kaminsky added that the app can be configured to fit the condition of individual users since not everyone who is color-blind sees things the same.

Click here to read more about the app on CNET, here to read Kaminsky’s blog for the story behind the app (and rave reviews from early users), and here to purchase the DanKam app on iTunes for $2.99.

LASIK typically will only correct long distance vision, thus requiring the use of glasses for reading and near vision.

However, the Technolas 217z Excimer Laser (already approved in Europe) enables correction of both near vision and the distance vision in a single procedure the company has branded SUPRACOR.

Technolas is currently seeking patients to participate in a study to determine (i) how accurately the combined technique corrects distance and near vision, and (ii) whether the correction is adequate to completely remove the need for glasses for near vision.

Referred to as visual chromatic cover therapy, Dr. Sadeghian’s approach stresses accurate diagnosis of the areas of the deficits followed by modification of the patient’s glasses based on information obtained through visual field exams. Specifically, once the areas of damage are established, the patient’s own prescription glasses – or simple non-prescription glasses of the patient’s choosing – are coated with a specific translucent paint by highly sensitive machines, spraying specific amounts of paint on specific areas of the lens based on the results of a visual field examination.  The patient is instructed to wear the glasses at all times for two weeks.

In the event improvement is detected within two weeks based on a new visual field examination, the patient is regularly monitored to ensure there is no relapse.

The concept is to force the brain to use a different pathway to get visual information to the visual centers of the brain (occipital lobe).

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Now I  am having cataract surgery and assume that new implant lens will replace that-9.00 contact plus my glasses prescription.

Would I see better after my cataract surgery? How much improvement in eye sight is reasonably to be expected?