Which is the best Intraocular Lens suited for eyes? Dr. Samina F Zamindar

Cataract surgery is one of the most common surgeries done in the world and when you remove the cataract, you need to now think about what is the intraocular lens that you will get implanted after you get your cataract removed. Who is the best person to answer this question? Ofcourse, the ophthalmologist, the surgeon who is going to operate upon you. Well, in this time and age, there is a huge variety of intraocular lens and you might get yourself confused. These are small tips to help you out. You need to first decide what are your priorities. Are you really keen on getting freedom after cataract surgery form glasses completely. Are you okay with wearing reading glasses like all of us wear after 40 years, or you are in such kind of a profession where wearing glasses is a taboo. Well, if all these things are there, you need to bring out all these things in front of your ophthalmologist. Now he or she will tell you which is the best intraocular lens. It also depends upon whether you are a diabetic or whether you had any eye disease like glaucoma or uveitis in the past. There are two kinds of intraocular lens mainly. Multifocal lenses and monofocal lenses. Multifocal lenses after being implanted in both the eyes, will in 95% of the times give you freedom form glasses, both for your distance vision and for your near work. Monofocal lenses will give you good vision wither for distance or for reading. There is something like monovision. What is monovision? In this technique what we call as monovision, we implant the dominant eye for distant vision clarity and we implant them on dominate eye for near work clarity. So one eye being good for distance and the other eye being good for reading. So at the end of both the eye surgeries, you now have good vision for both distance and reading for 90% of the times. For very small font, you might still have to wear reading glasses. If you are okay with this kind of provision, you should bring this out to your ophthalmogist. Moreover there are lenses which are available which are imported lenses and there are lenses which are mad e in India. Both are equally good, but there might be difference in the cots of the intraocular lens. Your ophthalmologist or your counsellor at your eye centre will tell you what is the cost difference. It will also depends upon your costly lens of less costly lens. Depending on your budget for the cataract surgery. So yes the question was, which is the intraocular lens that is good for your eyes. The lens which is time tested, the lens which your trusted ophthalmologist confidently guides toy or your eyes would be the best for you.