What to Know about the Light Adjustable Lens for Cataract Surgery with Dr. Berdahl
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- Опубликовано: 6 ноя 2019
- Vance Thompson Vision now offers the Light Adjustable Lens (LAL) for cataract patients. This advanced lens allows the surgeon to make precise adjustments to the lens after surgery to give the patient the vision they are looking for. Dr. John Berdahl answers questions from Brittany Kaye in this Keloland Living segment.
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The doc is sooooo busy that he had to wear his surgery yamaka to the interview. What dedication!
This video is super slick, too slick, too polished, so polished it skims the essential information.
This is devoid of real information, this is the crap I got from my prospective surgeon who failed to tell me the basics.
What at the specifications and performance?
What stigmatism can be corrected? by how much?
After its "locked in" can it be further adjusted in the future? Obviously not but thats not stated.
What is its performance compared to a ZCB000 which apparently is the best you are going to get for distance without any stigmatizm correction.
Having one eye for distance and one eye for close up can get your pilot's medical cancelled.
That eye for up close is going to have, guaranteed to have glare problems.
The there are the complications risk, that surgeons don't tell you. My best friend just had a double retina detatchment
and lost 50% vision in one eye, apparently near sighted people are at far higher risk.
So then when will the new class of IOL's come out?
The Juvene and similar are yet to be approved, Juvene was tested very successfully in 2015 and now 8 years later
where the hell is the approval?
Could it be that the approval has not been granted due to the results of the trial?
The key fact missing here is just how little or much can the LAL handle a stigmatism and does it compromize
distance vision for greater depth of field.
Technis claim that you can do the impossible, gain intermediate and closer vision without compromising distance,
an impossibility unless its an accomadating lens like the Juvene and one of its competitors just had to drop their product under test and go back to the drawing boards.
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i had my first adjustment on thursday 6/15. it took over 52 hours for my pupils to contract. i am having left eye for close and right eye for distance. yesterday i could finally read print and it is really good. i can read my phone and my computer monitor without 1.75 reading glasses at all. the distance has gotten much worse though. i can't make out the golf scores on a 75 inch television from twenty feet. i hope they can improve on this as my distance vision before was was better than almost anyone i would be around. keeping fingers crossed.
How are you doing now with distance vision?
@@damonmelendez856 i had these RX Sight lenses put in on 5/24 and 5/25 to try to achieve mono vision. on the first week appt it was "we need to wait a week and let the lotemax drops work". i live a one hour drive from the sarasota office i had to go to. 6/15 was the first adj and thats when my eyes took 52 hours for my pupils to go back to normal. as i said in first posting they made my near and intermediate vision better but my distance vision was ruined from the fresh lense that was inserted and has never been brought back. whatever that doctor lenhart did to my distance eye never came back. after another two wasted trips to sarasota they determined that they couldn't do a second adjustment until they repaired the dry eye syndrome that had developed as the eye test couldn't be accurately performed until they got the eyes moistened. so by hat time we were up to four weeks of driving back and forth to sarasota an hour with me only having one botched adjustment .they started me on xidra twice per day, refresh drops several times per day and the lotemax steroid twice per day continues to today. i never had dry eyes prior to this. around 7/15 they did the first lock in on left eye for near and second adjustment on right for distance. vision in near eye is acceptable. right eye they insist it is 20/20 but can't read street signs until i get to about 2-3 blocks away, they claim it will improve as the dry eye gets more under control. so to them everything is fine but i still am having confidence issues with driving. my doctors answer to that was "you may want to get a pair of glasses for driving particular at night". they wore me out so I finally gave in and settled for what it is. they claim it will take time. this whole process has taken around 12 weeks and the outcome is rather underwhelming.
I have the same monovision as yours. It's pretty nice to have the ability to see without glasses.
The only drawback is renewing your drivers license and taking the vision test. That machine blocks one eye and you can't focus on anything because of the monovision. You have to see an optometrist and have special testing & documentation.
How is your right eye doing now? Did your right eye stabilize?
Facts about the UV protective sunglasses. You’ll be wearing them 4-7 weeks not 3 weeks like the doctor said. For that reason you will need a lot of patience because you’ll have to wear them while away all day except when you’re sleeping. I had to wear them 7 weeks and it was not fun.
Really good information...learned a lot
What about the COSTS of this--and the adjustments and "setting" procedure??
Thanks for this informative video.
Is this strictly a monofocal lens? If not, what is the accommodation range when used as a presbyopic IOL?
From what I learned, all IOLs have downsides such as glare or loss of light. What are the downsides of this lens?
Thanks.
Are there halo issues?
Where is the nearest location to Chattanooga Tennessee where I can get LAL for cataracts?
HOW DO YOU KNOW that it will STAY that way- and not "re-adjust" over time later on???
Fingers crossed!
@@damonmelendez856 Well, I have a panoptix in one eye- and they had to REMOVE the other eye-- lost it because of CONTAMINATED EYE DROPS...
Can LAL's provide extended depth of focus, like the Vivity?
So very expensive and most medicare insurance will NOT cover it
True, looking at it and I'm sure there is some form of a payment plan if needed. The fact they can tweak the prescription without having to go through another surgery is a game changer.
I was told $4,500 out of pocket each eye.
Why is he wearing a mask on his head
He's gonna operate on the blonde next...just kidding