Refractive Surgery ICL

Are you young and no longer want to wear glasses?

At I CARE, if you meet certain essential conditions, Dr. Yeh inserts an artificial ICL implant beneath your iris (= the round diaphragm that gives your eye its color), which corrects your vision without altering the shape of the cornea (the dome-shaped transparent layer that covers the front part of the eye).

As a result, when you reach the age of presbyopia (loss of accommodation, difficulty reading) years later, it will simply be necessary to remove the ICL implant and replace your lens with an artificial one that corrects your vision at all distances. Moreover, since most activities nowadays are done on screens, intermediate and near vision are very important. The surgeon must consider these factors when operating on a patient.

And what if I prefer a LASIK (laser) treatment?

After a LASIK treatment for PRK (Photorefractive Keratectomy), the curvature of your cornea is modified. This makes lens implantation less advisable, as the calculation of the implant’s diopters remains uncertain. For this reason, the implantation of ICLs is becoming increasingly popular among surgeons over refractive lasers when the patient’s eye anatomy allows for it. https://www.staar.com/products