Designed Specifically to Minimize Night Time Halo and Glare In Patients with Multifocal Lens Implants after Cataract Surgery.
If you have had cataract surgery with a multifocal lens implant, such as the Rezoom™ (Advanced Medical Optics) or the Restor® (Alcon), then spare-specs Refocus may be the ideal solution to conveniently and inexpensively minimize night time halo and glare that you may experience.
State of the art multifocal lens implants are an excellent choice for patients desiring minimum dependence on glasses after cataract surgery. A very high percentage of patients with bilateral multifocal lens implants will not require any glasses at all.
Some patients, however, will still want minimum strength reading glasses for certain very fine or prolonged visual tasks at near.
In addition, some patients may notice halo and glare at night. It is important to note that not all patients with multifocal lens implants see halo and glare at night, and those that do usually report that it diminishes greatly over 3 to 6 months. Nonetheless, halo and glare are occasionally noticeable by some patients on a long term basis.
Starting at only $39.95, spare-specs Refocus are designed to minimize halo and glare at night in patients with multifocal lens implants.
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spare-specs Refocus are clear, single vision (not bifocal) glasses.
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In order to understand how spare-specs Refocus glasses minimize halo and glare, it is important to understand the difference between bifocal glasses and multifocal lens implants.
Bifocal glasses have a distance prescription lens in the top, and a reading prescription lens in the bottom. When the eye looks through the top of the glasses at distance, the eye looks only through the distance lens. When the eye looks through the bottom of the glasses at near, the eye looks only through the reading lens.
Multifocal lens implants have rings of alternating distance and near vision powers on the lens implant, much like a target.
When the eye looks at a distance with a multifocal lens implant, it is looking through both the distance and the near lens at the same time. Looking partially through the reading power of the multifocal lens implant at distance actually makes the eye a small amount nearsighted. This small amount of nearsightedness can contribute to halo and glare. This is especially true in the dark when the pupil is larger, because the near vision segments of the lens implant are more in the periphery of the lens implant.
spare-specs Refocus have a small nearsighted prescription which is designed and calculated specifically to compensate for the average nearsighted power of the lens implant at distance, hence, reducing and minimizing night time halo and glare. The prescription in spare-specs Refocus lenses is -1.37 D OU.
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Compensating for the small amount of nearsighted power of a multifocal lens implant at distance will help, which is how spare-specs Refocus work.
The multifocal lens implant is designed with alternating rings of far and near power which may induce halo and glare as well. spare-specs Refocus will not alter the basic design of the lens implant nor overcome 100% of the potential side effects.
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Most patients with bilateral multifocal lens implants who notice halo and glare say that spare-specs Refocus significantly reduce, but do not totally eliminate, halo and glare at night. You should not expect spare-specs Refocus to totally eliminate halo, glare, blur or starburst, but rather, to reduce these symptoms to an acceptable level.
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You must consult your Eye Care Professional prior to ordering spare-specs Refocus. If your Doctor is unfamiliar with spare-specs Refocus, please refer them to our website. spare-specs Refocus are to be recommended only under the direct advice and supervision of a licensed Eye Care Professional.
spare-specs Refocus are not intended to, and will not, minimize halo, glare, starburst or blurred vision arising from from astigmatism, post-surgical refractive errors, or any complications arising from cataract surgery and multifocal lens implant surgery.
spare-specs Refocus are intended only for patients with multifocal lens implants who have undergone uncomplicated surgery, who are happy with their results, who would like to reduce night time halo and glare and who have an understanding that halo and glare will not be totally eliminated.
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