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Astigmatism

doctors Are Now Performing Eye Surgery with Newly FDA Approved Lens

A Las Vegas doctor is changing the way patients view their world — he’s doing it through a new surgery with lenses just approved by the FDA.

“As long as I can remember, I could never read the blackboard until I got glasses,” Judy Reiber said. “I had bad vision my whole life.”

Reiber is now in her 70s. She had glasses since she was 12.

“I went through contacts when they first came out,” she said.

Reiber’s vision was around 20/80, and she said it was getting worse every year.

“It’s horrible,” she said. “My husband has said that the worst thing in the world is me saying, ‘I can’t find my glasses,’ and I bet I say that seven times a day.” read more

U.S. Truck Driver First to Get ‘Permanent’ Contacts for Astigmatism

As a truck driver, David Cheshire has struggled with finding a way to see better while driving. Driving down the interstate day in and day out started to cause strain on Cheshire’s eyes, exit signs started to get blurry and he knew that he had to take action to fix his eyesight. Cheshire didn’t like wearing contacts, though, and he couldn’t afford prescription sunglasses, according to a press release from Brinton Vision.

Cheshire also tried to get LASIK to correct his vision, but he was not a candidate because his vision had deteriorated. Now, Cheshire who has worn eyeglasses since third grade does not have a need for them. Earlier, Cheshire became the very first person in the U.S. to get the Visian Toric ICL procedure done. That means he got a new type of “permanent,” implantable contact lenses put in his eyes. This came just one month after the FDA approved the artificial lenses that are permanently implanted inside the eye behind the iris and in front of the natural lens. read more

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