Posts Tagged ‘cataracts’

Correcting Cataracts – The RLE Solution, Pt. 3

Wednesday, February 17th, 2010

For the last part of our Vision Correction Frequently Asked Questions series, we want to address cataract vision correction. We have received a few questions pertaining to cataracts and related cataract surgeries. One question, “What is RLE and how will it help my cataracts?” comes across Dr. Arrowsmith’s desk more frequently now.

According to The University of Washington Department of Ophthalmology (2004), 5,500,000 individuals suffer from cataracts with 400,000 new cases each year. Phacoemulsification for Cataract Surgery or Refractive Lens Exchange (RLE) with Advanced Lens Implants offers options for correcting cataracts. Phacoemulsification (Phaco=lens, emulsify=to liquefy) is used in removal of a cataract, which is a clouded natural lens. With RLE it can also be used to remove a clear natural lens – not yet developed into a cataract – simply to correct vision as an alternative to Bladeless LASIK or Phakic IOL’s.

With Phacoemulsification, an instrument uses ultrasound (like a laser, but using concentrated sound waves instead of light waves) to delicately liquefy and remove the center of the eye’s natural lens, leaving a clear, cellophane-like outer layer of the lens intact. Then, an Aphakic IOL (an IOL used after removal of the eye’s natural lens) is placed inside the cellophane-like layer replacing the central, vision-correcting part of the natural lens. Aphakic IOL’s are very advanced and will correct Nearsightedness, Farsightedness, Astigmatism (Toric IOL’s) and Presbyopia (difficulty with reading vision) just like LASIK. New types of Aphakic IOL’s can correct both distance and near vision at the same time. Often referred to as Presbyopia Correcting IOL’s or Premium IOL’s (PIOL’s), these include the Crystalens, ReSTOR Lens and the ReZoom Lens and others.

Patients are offered lenses that best meet their needs and their lifestyle, and together we will talk about and choose the right lens for you.

LASIK, Implant and Cataract Surgery

Sunday, February 17th, 2008

LASIK is an acronym for ‘Laser In-Situ Keratomileusis‘, its a mouthful so just stick with calling it LASIK! This unique process allows Dr. Arrowsmith to correct your sight using the advanced technology of the excimer laser. Most patients are able to have the procedure done and go on with life within twenty-four hours! This is due to the subsurface nature of LASIK. Simply put, by correcting the shape of an eye’s cornea, sight is improved and heals all naturally. For more, visit our LASIK page.

Cataract is a condition of the eye in which the vision is clouded. This is due to a development of clouding within the lens of an eye. Do you have a glare or halo around bright objects or find the head lights of other cars blurred? You may have a cataract in an eye or both! Now is the time to find out because early detection is always better than waiting for the condition to worsen. Do not put yourself or those you love in danger if your vision isn’t at its best. We offer procedures for this as well, visit our Cataract Surgery page for more.

Introduction to LASIK and Cataract Surgery

Thursday, January 24th, 2008

By browsing our web site and downloading our New AEI Brochure, you can get a pretty good idea what we’re all about.  We want to help people to achieve visual freedom, from glasses and contacts.  To be able to live life with wonderful, clear, natural vision is something you have probably thought about – most likely more than once.  In fact, most of our surgery patients have thought about LASIK, or one of our related surgeries, for many years.  In addition to the voluminous information on our web site, we have a couple of pages of testimonials that we hope you enjoy reading.  This Blog is designed to provide you with more feedback from our patients in a dynamic blog format.  Please make use of it and enjoy it!

With the world in a temporary tail spin, we all know that setting ourselves in line with quality is important, and spending our hard-earned money on things that are truly important is on most of our minds.  There’s not much that’s more important, and that will bring you greater enjoyment of your life than family, friends, education, following our dreams, a rewarding job, joyful hobbies and recreational activities, and… excellent vision.  You may be debating about getting LASIK, or other corrective eye surgery, to set you free the limitations of glasses and contacts.  Take the next step, you will be glad you did, and you will likely say what so many have told us, “I just wish I had done it sooner!”

Arrowsmith Eye's Team Correcting your vision with us gives you the opportunity to see more clearly and consistently than ever before, and this provides you with value in so many ways.

You know how your vision changes with the comfort, condition and position of your contacts, and even with time of day; have you ever developed an infection from your contacts?  And your glasses can block your very important side vision, slide down your nose – annoying – get dirty and scratched, often get in the way when you are active, and potentially block your view of that car coming toward you from the side or a neighborhood child trying to run across the street!  LASIK, and our other sight-restoring surgeries, give you the sight you need to function safely, comfortably and truly sharply… like high-definition, or HD vision.

If you can see like this, would your quality of life be noticeably improved?  And if you can see with our “HD Vision”, and do it without the ongoing cost and risks of contact lenses or the cost and problematic use of glasses, you will be a double winner!…  Did anyone mention that LASIK-Vision, vision after Lens Implants, and vision after Cataract removal with Lens Implants, is not like vision you have ever experienced before; that why we call it HD, or high-definition vision.  Why waste money on inferior vision when bladeless LASIK can give you so much more, while actually providing you with a lifetime of savings!

Don’t wait to find out how affordable LASIK is Contact Us for more details specific to you.

It is our goal to help you live free from the burdens and extra unnecessary cost of glasses and contacts.   The Arrowsmith Eye Institute staff is dedicated to helping you to affordably transform the quality of your vision, and we know this will transform your quality of life.

We are a team dedicated to helping the world see clearly… for life.

LASIK, Implant and Cataract Surgery

LASIK is an acronym for ‘Laser In-Situ Keratomileusis‘, its a mouthful so just stick with calling it LASIK! This unique process allows Dr. Arrowsmith to correct your sight using the advanced technology of the excimer laser. Most patients are able to have the procedure done and go on with life within twenty-four hours! This is due to the subsurface nature of LASIK. Simply put, by correcting the shape of an eye’s cornea, sight is improved and heals all naturally. For more, visit our LASIK page.

Cataract is a condition of the eye in which the vision is clouded. This is due to a development of clouding within the lens of an eye. Do you have a glare or halo around bright objects or find the head lights of other cars blurred? You may have a cataract in an eye or both! Now is the time to find out because early detection is always better than waiting for the condition to worsen. Do not put yourself or those you love in danger if your vision isn’t at its best. We offer procedures for this as well, visit our Cataract Surgery page for more.