MULTIFOCAL IOLS AND PRESBYOPIA
Arthur Cummings
Published: Friday, June 12, 2015
Despite improvements in recent years, multifocal IOLs will never provide a silver bullet solution to presbyopia, Jorge Alio MD told delegates attending the European Society of Ophthalmology (SOE) meeting in Vienna.
"The latest generation of multifocal IOLs offers a real improvement on earlier iterations of the technology with better range of foci, less loss of contrast sensitivity function, less issues with halos and glare and better patient satisfaction," he said.
Despite these advances, Prof. Alio believes that multifocal lenses will ultimately come to be supplanted by accommodative IOLs.
"We need to bear in mind that multifocal IOLs are not physiological and they will always require some degree of neuroadaptation. Once accommodative IOLs are developed adequately, multifocal IOLs will be unable to compete as happened in the past with pseudophakic glasses and IOLs," he said.
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