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This week on Healthwatch, we've been talking about healthy vision. People who weren't born with perfect vision now have more options for correcting their vision. Previously, we talked about laser surgery to correct vision. Doctors at UT Southwestern Medical Center say there are also new kinds of artificial lenses that can be surgically implanted to improve vision.
One kind of lens, the Restore lens, replaces the natural lens and allows more than 80 percent of patients to never need glasses again. It's often used to treat patients who have cataracts and corrects both far and close vision. Another new lens, the ICL lens, is inserted in front of the natural lens. It can correct higher degrees of nearsightedness or farsightedness than LASIK in cases where the eye would have to be reshaped too drastically for LASIK to work.
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May 2005
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