About Light Adjustable Lens (LAL) Implants
How do they work?
With the RxSight™ Light Adjustable Lens, you and your doctor can now customize your vision after your eye has healed from cataract surgery. This is because the Light Adjustable Lens is made of a special photosensitive material that changes the shape and power of your implanted lens in response to ultraviolet (UV) light. You and your physician will have the unique ability to adjust and preview your vision until it meets your personal desires and lifestyle requirements.
What is the procedure like?
The cataract removal and IOL implantation procedure is the same as if you selected a non-adjustable IOL. After a few weeks of healing, you will return for a series of non-invasive light treatments where your outcome is refined and tailored as needed to your eyes. Once you have achieved your final optimal vision the lens power is locked into place with the same painless, non-invasive light treatment technology used for adjustments.
Fast Facts
- The first and only adjustable intraocular lens (IOL) that allows your physician to customize your vision after your cataract surgery
- Patients who received the Light Adjustable Lens followed by adjustments were twice as likely to achieve 20/20 vision at 6 months without glasses as those who received a standard monofocal IOL
- The cataract removal and IOL implantation procedure is the same as it is for standard cataract surgery.
- The lens is made of a special photosensitive material that changes the shape and power of your implanted lens in response to ultraviolet (UV) light
- You will have the unique ability to preview and compare possible vision outcomes based on your preferences and lifestyle requirements
- Light treatments that precisely reshape your implanted lens are delivered in your doctor’s office to adjust your vision to the desired target
- Light treatments are painless, non-invasive, and take approximately 90 seconds. You will be fully dilated for these treatment visits.
- You will need 3-5 of these treatment visits, typically spaced weekly. We start the treatments after you’ve healed, which is usually 3-4 weeks after surgery.
- It is required to wear special UV protective glasses (provided to you at no extra cost) until the final lock in treatment. The Light Adjustable Lens now has an ActivShield protection layer that is built into the lens to make accidental lock-ins far less likely.
