Cataract with Monofocal Lens (one or both eyes)- Cataract with Multifocal Lens (one or both eyes)
- LASIK (both eyes)
- Phakic intraocular lens.
- Cataract Surgery Multifocal IOL
- Intracorneal rings (Intacs)
- Strabismus Surgery
- Trabeculectomy
- Phacoemulsification
- Refractive eye Surgery
- Cross-linking. both eyes
- Pterygium and conjunctival grafts
- Chalazia
- Biometrics
- Topographic Tachometry
- Fundus Exam
- Optic nerve exam
- Pupil dilation exam
- Retinal exam
- Tonometry
- Contact Lens Assessment
Cataract with Monofocal Lens
The vision you attain after cataract surgery largely depends on your personal preference and lens choice. The standard choice is a monofocal lens which gives you either good distance (driving, outdoors) or near (reading) vision—but not both. You will still need to wear glasses for some tasks and to achieve clearest possible vision you may need glasses for both distance and near. With a monofocal lens, the choice of vision should reflect your daily activities. If you are a person who reads a lot, you may want a lens that gives you good reading vision and then wear glasses for distance. On the other hand, if you are a person who likes spending time outdoors you probably will prefer to have good distance vision and wear glasses for reading. A monofocal lens with clear distance vision is the most popular choice. However, you should consider your personal circumstances.
Cataract with Multifocal Lens
If you have a strong desire to not wear glasses, these lenses may be right for you. Presbyopia is the eye's inability to change focus from distance to near—the age-related condition that usually requires reading glasses or bifocals between age 40 and 50. Several types of multifocal lens implants offer the possibility of seeing well at more than one distance without reading glasses or bifocals. Our surgeons generally prefer the ReZoom lens by Advanced Medical Optics.
Multifocal lens implants cost significantly more than standard lens implants and require additional exams, tests and follow-up care. Insurance companies do not usually pay the extra costs of these services but financing options are available.
Multifocal lens implants are not well suited for everyone and require adaptive personalities to adjust to the vision they provide. They allow most people to function most of the time without glasses. But if you expect multifocal lens implants to provide perfect vision without glasses, you will likely be disappointed.
LASIK (both eyes)
LASIK is a laser vision correction procedure that is used to surgically correct your vision. It works by changing the shape of your cornea, so that light rays focus on or near the retina. When light rays are focused in this manner, your vision is the best that it can be without glasses or contact lenses. Changing the shape of your cornea is accomplished by using an Excimer laser. The Excimer laser emits a cool beam of light that alters the shape of your cornea. LASIK is different from other laser procedures because the laser light is directed to the inner portion of your cornea. Earlier vision correction procedures, such as PRK (Photorefractive Keratectomy) apply laser light to the surface cells of the cornea. With the LASIK procedure, patients frequently have functional vision the first day after surgery. After the procedure your eyes will water and it may feel as if an eyelash is in your eye for 2 to 3 hours. Following that period, there is no pain. Vision will most likely be blurry the first day of LASIK surgery, but should improve greatly after a good night’s sleep. Most patients return to work the day after surgery. Eye drops are only needed for 1 week after surgery.
Our Opthalmology Surgeons
Amerimed Hospital / Cancun, Mexico
Dr. Jorge Ricardo Becerril Monroy
Hospital la Catolica / San Jose, Costa Rica
Dr. Jimenes Quiros
Clinica Unibe / San Jose, Costa Rica
Dr. Rolando Mora
Galenia Hospital / Cancun, Mexico
Dr. Carlos A. Cardona Velasquez
