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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Procedures
Refractive Cataract Procedures
Refractive cataract surgery means performing cataract surgery with emphasis on achieving the best possible vision without glasses as possible, just as we do with our LASIK patients.
To achieve this we begin with the doctor making the key measurements and using the best and latest technology to achieve this. Of course, we need excellence in performing thousands of cataract surgeries. We offer a multitude of intraocular lens options. For patients with astigmatism, Dr. Ehrlich performs limbal relaxing incisions or LRI’s, or uses a special astigmatic or TORIC implant, or both.
For patients wishing to have the most freedom from glasses, he offers the Crystalens HD and ReStor multifocal lenses. Dr. Ehrlich was selected to perform the FDA trial that led to the approval of the Crystalens, an honor given to 18 surgeons in the United States who were felt to have the skills and track record to turn out the excellent results that would and did lead to the approval of the lens.
Refractive Lensectomy
A refractive lensectomy refers to performing refractive cataract surgery on a younger patient who does not yet have a clinically significant cataract but who desires the visual benefits from this technology. This includes patients who are too nearsighted or too farsighted to safely have LASIK, as well as patients who could have LASIK but desire both the far and reading vision available with a multifocal implant that is not available with LASIK. (The exception in LASIK is treating one eye for distance vision and one for reading, a process known as monovision.)
LASIK and PRK
LASIK involves the use of an excimer laser to reshape the outer cornea of the eye. The laser treatment is performed beneath a superficial flap made in the outermost layer of the cornea using a special surgical instrument or a femtosecond laser. (Intralase)
Some patients have a cornea that is too thin or has mild abnormalities that are best treated by PRK. In PRK we do not make a LASIK flap, but use the same excimer laser to perform the same laser treatment on the outermost surface of the eye. The healing process is longer, but results are as good or better than LASIK.Dr. Ehrlich was a LASIK patient in 2001, wrote a book reviewed in the Los Angeles Times in 2000, and ran a LASIK center in Sarasota, FL. In Colorado he performs his LASIK surgery at TLC Denver and Insight LASIK in Lafayette, Colorado.