Cataract Surgery with Multifocal Lens

Cataract Surgery abroad - Prague, the Czech Republic

Description of cataract surgery

Cataract surgery abroad with toric (cylindrical) Acrysof yellow lens, protective gell and microincision system. The cloudy lens is painlessly crushed with ultrasound and drained. The eye surgeon implants new artificial AcrySof multifocal yellow lens instead of it. The surgery is performed with up to 2.2 mm microincision.

Symptoms of cataract

Cataract means reduced transparency (opacity) and hardening of the eye lens that is normally clear. Most often we experience cataract after 60 years of age. Among the risk factors for cataract occurrence are mainly age, general diseases, diabetes, using some medicines on a long-term basis, smoking and eye injury.

Duration of cataract surgery

The surgery takes place in an ambulatory setting. It takes about 10 minutes. The patient can leave the clinic immediately after the surgery. Next day is post-operative check up and then one more before you leave. If only one eye is to be operated you need to stay in Prague 1 week, for both eyes you need to stay 10 days.

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Best lens on the market

The quality of your vision depends on the quality of the lens. Lenses can be made of many different materials. Major worlds experts agree together, which is quite rare - they consider hydrophobic acrylate with blue light filter to be the best material - it is used by Alcon Laboratories Inc from the USA to produce AcrySof Restore lenses.

Your surgery in Prague can be performed with the following lens:

• Monofocal Acrysof lens
• Multifocal AcrySof IQ Restor IOL

Toric lens for patients with stronger astigmatism

• Monofocal AcrySof IQ Toric IOL
• AcrySof IQ Restor Multifocal Toric IOL

For whom multifocal intraocular lenses are suitable?

Multifocal intraocular lenses are suitable for anyone who doesn't want to put up with having to use reading glasses The PRELEX method ..

What is presbyopia?

Presbyopia is the loss of ability to read without glasses within the normal reading distance. It occurs in about 40 years of age and becomes ..

Can presbyopia be treated?

We cannot cure the cause of presbyopia yet. We can relieve you of reading glasses, though. The PRELEX method allows seeing in the distance as ..

I am over 40 and want to get rid of reading glasses. Will laser do?

If you are over 40 and would like to get rid of reading glasses in particular, non-laser PRELEX or RLE-type surgery will be more for you. If ..

What does PRELEX stand for?

PRELEX is the abbreviation of Presbyopic Lens Exchange. It is a non-laser method used in patients who refuse to put up with having to use ..

What is cataract?

Cataract means reduced transparency (opacity) and hardening of the eye lens that is normally clear. The cloudy lens prevents rays of light from ..

Is my cataract mature enough to receive surgery?

Compared to today, cataract surgery was performed in a quite different way twenty years ago. By freezing it to a liquid nitrogen-cooled probe, ..

How is cataract treated?

There are no medicines, drops, diets, exercises or special glasses that might remove the occurrence of cataract one day. Surgery is the only ..

What is an intraocular lens?

An intraocular lens is made of plastic. It compensates the dioptric power of the removed cloudy human lens. It is put in the original human ..

Do you include soft lenses in the base price?

Yes, we do. And not just that. You will receive Alcon AcrySof Natural yellow lens and quality Alcon protective gel at the base price of the ..

What is protective intraocular gel?

The fine structures of the eye need to be protected against damage during the surgery. Special gel (viscoelastic material) is used for this ..