Visionary Partnership To Reverse Ageing Sight
Two of the region's cutting edge medical organisations have joined forces to provide Yorkshire Patients with true state-of-the eye treatment.
Wakefield-based Lenstec, a provider of technologically-advanced lens implants has teamed up with Yorkshire Eye Hospital, the region's only specialist eye hospital, to offer patients life changing treatments to reverse the process of ageing sight. Further afield, the two organisations are also working closely together on charitable projects in Madagascar including the creation of outreach centres to treat many people suffering from needless blindness on the Indian Ocean Island.
Yorkshire's top eye consultants have started working with the cutting edge ‘Tetraflex' intraocular lens which is permanently implanted inside the eye to restore excellent distance and intermediate vision along with reading vision to patients suffering from presbyopia (ageing sight).
Commenting on the pioneering treatment, Oliver Backhouse, Consultant Ophthalmologist at Yorkshire Eye Hospital and Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust said: "When you are young, the various parts of the eye work together in harmony and your natural lens makes subtle changes in shape allowing you to switch focus from far to near effortlessly. This is called accommodation."
"In our mid 40s, the eye's lens is no longer able to make delicate adjustments so one loses the ability to move between near and far vision. This is why many middle aged men and women have to start wearing reading glasses for close work, computer work and even reading menus etc. This loss of accommodation is called presbyopia" "These ‘accommodating' lenses are definitely the way forward for the future.
TheYorkshire Eye Hospital's Refractive Suite has started to use these with great success and demand is growing rapidly from patients with presbyopia. They no longer want to rely heavily on specs as they grow older. Patients report that the benefits really are life changing, enabling them to resume previous activities and pastimes without worrying about glasses. These lenses can also be used in cataract surgery as well as treating short and longsightedness with great success" The Tetraflex lens treatment is carried out using advanced micro incision surgery which has well documented benefits including great stability and safety, and faster post-operation visual recovery.
Jim Woodward, Lenstec Director said: "This intraocular lens is a clear plastic man-made lens that replaces the natural lens which is removed from inside the eye. The IOL is then put in its place where it remains permanently. I am delighted to be working with the consultants at the Yorkshire Eye Hospital as it is vital that potential patients are aware of these great new advanced options in refractive surgery as they are extremely effective and achieve outstanding results."
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