Earlier this week, I featured Lens Replacement Surgery (LRS) - a surgical treatment used to treat lens disorders. So, when a NBC 4 article came out on presbyopia, and how LASIK cannot do anything about it (since LASIK treats corneal problems, and not lens problems), I figured that we could use it to remind everybody about not only presbyopia, but also two effective means of handling it – the Lens Replacement Surgery procedure we discussed earlier and the Presview Sceral Implant procedure highlighted in the NBC 4 article.

According to the article, presbyopia is an inevitable outcome of age, where your eye muscles degrade to the extent that it can no longer “pull on the tiny lens”. At this stage, you could go with the PresView Scleral Spacing procedure featured in the article. This procedure involves putting four tiny plastic implants - each the size of a grain of rice – into the eye. These implants will provide “…the muscles a lever so they can squeeze again.”

But given that this is an invasive surgical procedure, you could as easily go with Lens Replacement Surgery (LRS), which is also invasive. LRS also involves implants, such as those from brands like ReSTOR®, ReZoom™ & Crystalens™. These implants are known as Multifocal Lens Implants.

Overall though, I have no preference for either procedure as there is little evidence to suggest that one procedure is better than the other. Perhaps the main difference I can see at the moment is that the PresView Sceral Spacing procedure makes four incisions while LRS makes only one. However, since both procedures claim almost equal recovery time, the larger number of incisions from the PresView procedure might not mean anything at all.

[News via NBC 4]