What are advanced technology intraocular lenses?
There are now two advanced technology intraocular lenses (IOLs) available from our Washington DC-area eye center in Chevy Chase – crystalens®, ReSTOR® and ReZOOM®. All are exciting new FDA-approved vision correction technologies that permit boomers and seniors to experience natural, seamless distance, intermediate, and near vision. The advanced Technology IOL is a space-age plastic lens that is surgically implanted to permanently replace the old, hard natural lens of the eye. These technologies have been demonstrated to have the same safety as decades old traditional lens implants, but can also provide what many of our patients say they really want: greater freedom from glasses – not just distance glasses, but readers too. This surgery can allow many people in their late forties and older (with or without cataracts) to return to the vision they had when they were younger and did not need glasses. The world renowned surgeons of Washington Eye Physicians and Surgeons have corrected the v
