In August 2018, the first implant in the world of an additional trifocal cataract lens, Sulcoflex, was performed. What is that?
When cataract is operated, the crystalline is removed and an artificial crystalline is implanted that remains in the eye in one’s whole lifetime; if there is a refractive calculation error, that is, we wanted the patient to be able to see well from afar without glasses but in reality the patient has a vision defect of 1,2,3,4 diopters of myopia, astigmatism or hypermetropia, these visual defects can be corrected with an almost risk-free and very minimally invasive surgery: How?
By inserting a special non-cataract lens inside the eye but which is added to the lens that was implanted during the cataract surgery; clear lens, well-positioned, well-housed inside the eye but not correct from the refractive point of view.
The new lens that is added can correct the defect of sight to our liking, therefore there are lenses that are called piggy-back that are to be added in the eye, in the case of the Sulcoflex series, which are well suited to the position in which they must be implanted, i.e. in the sulcus: the area of the eye that is exactly behind the iris and immediately in front of the implanted artificial lens; these lenses adapt well, are very stable and allow a near-perfect residual vision correction.
Surgery can also be performed under topical anesthesia (i.e. only with drops), it lasts 2-3 minutes and the patient returns to see how he wanted and should have seen after the first cataract surgery.
These lenses are a great chance for all those patients who have underwent cataract operation but have a residual vision defect.
This is what happened from August 2018, because these Sulcoflex lenses started being available to us and we used them to correct sight defects.
The company has thought of combining trifocal technology, that is intraocular lens technology that allows seeing at all distances (far, half-distance and close), to Sulcoflex technology, that is to make a piggy-back lens...
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Graduated in Medicine and Surgery from the University of Turin in 1996 and specialised at the same University in Ophthalmology in 2000. Is one of the best and most successful Italian refractive surgeons and, in particular, deals with:
► Cataract surgery with high-tech IOL implants:
– Performed the first Panoptix trifocal lens implant procedure– Has also acquired a wealth of experience in the management of multifocal and toric IOLs– Has implanted hundreds of multifocal IOL lenses
► Preventative keratoconus surgery by corneal cross-linking and insertion of intrastromal corneal rings
► Excimer laser surgery
► Phakic IOL implants: certified surgeon by the American company Staar
► In June 2016, he implanted the first ICL Evo+ V5 lens implants in Italy
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