Cataract Surgery
Many options are available today for the prosthetic lens that replaces the crystalline lens with its cataract. Some lenses, called multifocal lenses or accommodating lenses, allow for correction of both near and distance vision.
New Inraocular Lens Technology
Do you have cataracts? Cataract patients now have better options to see at both near and far distances after cataract surgery! Individuals suffering from cataracts previously had only a mono-focal lens implant option after surgery. NEW multi-focal IOL technology can now decrease dependence on glasses after surgery.
Save on LASIK
Many employers allow employees to earmark several thousands of dollars to help pay for a variety of elective procedures, including LASIK. If you are seeking LASIK in Colorado call us today to discuss how Flex Spending can help you save money. This makes vision correction affordable! LASIK Self-Evaluation
Would you like to find out if you are a LASIK candidate? If so please take our self-evaluation test and one of our staff will be in touch with you to discuss your LASIK candidacy. The Colorado LASIK specialists at Eye Center of the Rockies, invite you to also come into our office for a complete LASIK eye exam.
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Patient Education
Nearsighted individuals typically have problems seeing well at a distance
and are forced to wear glasses or contact lenses. The nearsighted
eye is usually longer than a normal eye, and its cornea may also be steeper.
Therefore, when light passes through the cornea and lens, it is focused
in front of the retina. This will make distant images appear blurred.
There are several refractive surgery solutions available to correct nearly
all levels of nearsightedness.
Farsighted individuals typically develop problems reading up close before
the age of 40. The farsighted eye is usually slightly shorter than
a normal eye and may have a flatter cornea. Thus, the light of distant
objects focuses behind the retina unless the natural lens can compensate
fully. Near objects require even greater focusing power to be seen
clearly and therefore, blur more easily.
LASIK, Refractive Lens Exchange and Contact lenses are a few of the options
available to correct farsightedness.
Asymmetric steepening of the cornea or natural lens causes light to be
focused unevenly, which is the main optical problem in astigmatism.
To individuals with uncorrected astigmatism, images may look blurry or shadowed.
Astigmatism can accompany any form of refractive error and is very common.
Astigmatism can be corrected with glasses, contact lenses, corneal relaxing
incisions, laser vision correction, and special implant lenses.
Presbyopia is a condition that typically becomes noticeable for most
people around age 45. In children and young adults, the lens inside
the eye can easily focus on distant and near objects. With age, the
lens loses its ability to focus adequately.
Although presbyopia is not completely understood, it is thought that the
lens and its supporting structures lose the ability to make the lens longer
during close vision effort. To compensate, affected individuals usually
find that holding reading material further away makes the image clearer.
Ultimately, aids such as reading glasses are typically needed by the mid-forties.
Besides glasses, presbyopia can be dealt with in a number of ways.
Options include: monovision and multifocal contact lenses, monovision laser
vision correction, and new presbyopia correcting implant lenses.