eyes
Clearly the best
Mr Pillai of Advance Vision Care, one of the UK’s most
experienced refractive surgeons, focuses on Clear Lens
Extraction, where your natural lens is removed and replaced
with an artificial implant that guarantees perfect eyesight
C
lear Lens Extraction (CLE)
is a procedure designed to “I t is a procedure designed to
eliminate the need for distance
glasses or contact lenses and
eliminate the need for distance
it can be used to treat a wide
range of prescriptions. With
specialist treatment it can also
glasses or contact lenses”
correct reading vision as well as the natural crystalline lens and The surgery takes 30 minutes
distance. replacing it with a new artificial for each eye and is done under
It is most suitable for those implant (IOL) of a different local anaesthetic with the use of
over 50 years of age. This is focusing power, much like what drops only. No injections and no
because when the natural lens happens in cataract surgery. stitches are required. The small
of the eye is removed all ability However, in cataract surgery the incision that is made (2.8mm
to adjust the focus of the eye is lens that is removed is cloudy or less) heals rapidly with
lost. This natural focus changing whereas in this procedure vision settling within two days.
ability is called ‘accommodation’ it is clear, hence the name Following the surgery, drops
which is slowly lost with age. It is Clear Lens Extraction or Lens are used for four weeks but the
this loss of accommodation that Exchange with IOL. patient is able to return to normal
accounts for near vision/reading Like the lens of a camera, activity within two days.
glasses after mid 40s. When which focuses images sharply on
CLE is performed on those over the film, the eye’s lens focuses The next big thing
50 the loss of accommodation is light and images on the retina The traditional implant used is
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irrelevant as it has already been (back of the eye). Precise, monofocal which means focused
lost through the natural process state-of-the-art ultrasound for one distance only so a patient
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described above. instruments are used to measure would require reading glasses
Unlike laser techniques that the eyes and these individual post surgery. The latest implant
correct vision by changing measurements are entered is multifocal which, as the
the shape of the cornea, CLE into sophisticated formulae to name suggests, is focused at a
corrects vision by removing calculate exact implant power. number of distances so allows
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