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INFORMATION FOR PATIENTS ABOUT THE LENSAR LASER SYSTEM

Over time, cataracts can affect your vision, and may end up limiting your activities and ability to enjoy life. Continue reading below to learn more about the benefits of an advanced laser cataract procedure with the LENSAR® Laser System.

Over time, cataracts can affect your vision, and may end up limiting your activities and ability to enjoy life. Continue reading below to learn more about the benefits of an advanced laser cataract procedure with the LENSAR® Laser System.

How Do Cataracts Affect My Eyes?

Your eye works a lot like a camera, using a lens to focus on an image. If your camera lens became cloudy, you’d have a hard time viewing the world around you.

Just like a camera, the lenses in your eyes can become cloudy as you age, making it harder for you to see. This clouding is a natural condition, known as cataracts.

With today’s technology, your surgeon can safely remove your cataract, and implant a replacement lens to restore your vision. Learn why adding the LENSAR® Laser System to your advanced cataract procedure is the superior decision for your vision.

How Does the LENSAR Laser Improve My Advanced Cataract Procedure?

Although it’s common belief that lasers have been used in cataract surgery for years, this is not true. With the introduction of the LENSAR® Laser System, laser cataract surgery has become a reality, and your surgeon can now remove your cataract in a more advanced way. Laser cataract surgery is made even more precise by LENSAR's Cataract Laser with Augmented Reality™ technology, a unique imaging system that provides your surgeon with a sophisticated, 3-D view of your eye to help plan and treat your cataract.

With this advanced technology, your surgeon can offer you a better, more precise cataract removal procedure that is customized to your eye’s own unique size and shape. If you have astigmatism, the LENSAR Laser can guide your surgeon to correct it for you.

WHAT ARE THE BENEFITS OF LENSAR?

Your surgeon offers the LENSAR® Laser System as part of your advanced cataract procedure because it is safe, effective, and uses the same proven laser technology that’s been used in LASIK procedures for over a decade. Other benefits include:

  • A unique, high-resolution, 3-D view of your eye that allows your surgeon to tailor your treatment, which can improve visual outcomes.1
  • The most advanced technology available, which may reduce the time it takes to remove your cataracts.1, 2
  • A system designed with comfort in mind, so you can relax, knowing the latest technology available is being used to treat one of your most valuable senses – your sight.
  • If you have astigmatism, this precise laser will help guide your surgeon to correct it.

Why Should I Elect To Have An Advanced Cataract Procedure?

Advanced cataract surgery is designed to improve your vision and reduce your dependency on glasses or contact lenses. During your procedure, your surgeon will use the most advanced technology available, including premium intraocular lenses and the LENSAR® Cataract Laser with Augmented Reality™, an advanced imaging system.

LENSAR’s superior Augmented Reality imaging system represents a more intelligent approach to cataract surgery. With Augmented Reality, your surgeon can see everything inside your eye in greater detail. This allows the surgeon to plan the surgery better, to precisely soften the cataract in preparation for removal, and to ensure the appropriate condition for the most accurate placement of your intraocular lens.

It is LENSAR’s precision, imaging, and laser incisions that allow your surgeon to ensure that the cataract is safely removed and that the new intraocular lens is perfectly placed, and if you have astigmatism that it is corrected, resulting in better visual outcomes.

1. Data on file. LENSAR, Inc.
2. Edwards, Keith; Klyce, Stephen; Krueger, Ronald and Daniel Palanker. “Imaging Systems and Image-Guided Surgery.” Textbook of Laser Refractive Cataract Surgery 2013: 49-58. Print.