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WHY DOES THE NATURAL LENS IN MY EYE NEED TO BE REPLACED?Your natural lens can be compared to a water balloon at birth. Tiny muscles inside the eye push and pull the lens to change its shape. The flaw of the natural lens is that as you age the lens becomes hard, and the muscles inside your eye lose the ability to change the shape of the lens. Without this change of shape, the eye is unable to allow distance, intermediate, and near images to be focused clearly. This hardening of the lens is called ‘presbyopia’ and naturally occurs in your mid-forties.Patients with hardening of the lens will often hold things further away from their eyes to compensate for the reduced focusing ability of the hardening lens. Eventually, your arms are not long enough to hold reading material far enough away from your eyes. Bifocals or reading glasses are used to offset the limited focusing ability of your lens.  As you continue to age the lens in your eye becomes harder and harder. Gradually, the hardening of the lens begins to change the color of the previously clear lens. This usually occurs in your sixties. The color change from clear to a tea or brown colored lens causes a decreased quality in your overall vision. This is called a cataract.Because the gradual decrease happens over decades, patients may not easily recognize the loss of vision. Symptoms frequently noted in patients with cataracts are a painless blurring of vision, glare or light sensitivity, poor night vision, needing brighter light to read, fading or yellowing of colors, and frequent changes in glasses prescription with little improvement. HOW CAN DR. NEWSOM FIX THE LENS IN MY EYE?Unfortunately, there is not a pill or vitamin which can reverse the aging, hardening, or discoloration in your lens. The only treatment is surgery to remove the natural lens and replace it with a new, clear replacement lens called an intraocular lens (IOL). In the past, surgeons would remove the lens and prescribe glasses to focus the eye. Today, Dr. Newsom is able to insert an IOL inside the eye where the old lens or cataract was located. This IOL has the ability to replace your glasses for focusing at distance, intermediate, and near vision.
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Dr. Newsom is known worldwide for his surgical skills and experience with various types of IOLs. One particular patient branded Dr Newsom’s surgical results when she said, “I don’t tell people I have NEW EYES, I tell them I have ‘ |
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