Customize Your Vision AFTER Cataract Surgery With A Light-Adjustable Lens (LAL)!

Did you know that there is a lens that you can put in during cataract surgery that you can adjust AFTER the surgery to get a near-perfect outcome? In this video, Dr. Lee, a board-certified ophthalmologist and cataract surgeon, discusses how you can customize your vision after cataract surgery with a light-adjustable lens (LAL) by RxSight! Find out who is a good candidate for this lens and everything you need to know about this customized treatment.

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TIMESTAMPS
00:00 Intro
00:25 Lens Choices
00:56 Problem With Traditional Lenses
01:24 Light-Adjustable Lens (LAL)
01:52 How Does It Work?
02:10 Who Should Get This Lens?
03:08 Contraindications
04:06 Considerations
05:08 Advantages
05:38 What You Need To Know
06:39 Wrap-up

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[MicheleLeeMD]

I hope that this is a helpful video about light-adjustable lenses, my new favorite lens to offer patients in order to customize and fine-tune their vision AFTER surgery!

My apologies for the sound quality for this video - my mic broke during filming and I was unable to edit out some of the rustling and background noises. I'll make sure to fix this before the next video.

[otiebrown]

This is how I went from 20/60, to 20/20.
Thank you Dr. LEE.
20/20 IS WONDERFUL.

[briane]

I am almost 75 years old, and have had the LAL lens installed in my right eye over a week ago, and will have the LAL lens installed in my left eye this Thursday (18 days apart, which is common). So far I am impressed with the results. I will probably have new glasses just for reading and looking at the computer screen. The UV treatment after the surgery will be done once a week for 4 weeks. I was awake during the surgery. It did not hurt, since I received a lot of numbing drops for the eye and a sedative through an IV. Thank you Dr. Lee for all of your clear informational videos.

[lisaoxley]

I guess I am the only one who is not happy with my visual acuity after LAL implants. I was encouraged to get LAL due to my previous Lasik. Post final LAL lock in, I have 20/35 in one one eye and 20/40 in the other. Doc said that's the best he could achieve for me. Close up vision is pretty good, but distance is very soft focus. However, I was seeing better after the adjustment and before the final lock in. The lock in procedure definitely had a negative impact on my vision. I haven't been able to find any reviews out there similar to my experience. But for the huge extra cost incurred for these lenses, I was hoping for better results.

[moonlightsonata]

I just have cataract surgery on my left eye 5 days ago and I didn't know anything about LAL lense until today and wonder why my surgeon didn't mention it to me. My cataract surgeon suggested Vivity lense (with Toric for my astigmatism) to suit my eye condition as I also had lasik surgery 15 years ago and I'm a competitive swimmer and not taking ANY medication. After 5 days I start to see everything (driving, TV, computer) so crystal clear and I'm surprised I can read without glasses except very tiny fonts. I'm going to have another surgery for my right eye next week and I'll definitely ask him about LAL. Thanks for the video Dr. Lee.

[_Bad_Z]

We have to be thankful for Doctors like Michelle Lee.
I got Catarac Surgery with Clareon IOL yesterday. This was due to a Retina detachment I had back in March of 2023. My right eye had been foged up for a while. I now see clear. It's kinda of strange since I had got use to the eye with the cataract. Now im in recovery mode.

[drizneyland]

Thank you, Dr. Lee, this is so helpful. I am scheduled for cataract surgey this month and originally chose the Vivity lens, but I have been hearing about the LAL and it sounds amazing. I’ll consult with the surgeon next week to see if I am a candidate. I’m not seeing a lot of downside with this lens. Thanks as always for the information you share!

[rhwcjxe]

Dr. Lee, I have watched a number of your cataract videos and have found them very informative. The one thing I would ask you to consider making is a video indicating what you deem to be the price ranges of the various IOLs. I fully understand this will vary depending upon a given practice, its geographic location within the U. S., and, perhaps even in the same city. Out of pocket costs for most Medicare patients is an important factor. The standard IOL is covered by Medicare but not other newer lenses to my knowledge or related ancillary treatments. Thus, I believe many of your viewers would find this information to be useful. Thank you for your consideration and keep up your informative videos.

[rxdude]

Thank you for this video Dr Lee. I have had LASIK surgery twice the second time I was given monovision and have enjoyed it. I will be getting the LAL in my right eye on 7/11 for far vision and in my left eye on 7/18 for near vision. I am excited and looking forward to both surgeries. I hope my vision great with the initial measurements but happy it will be able to be adjusted after the surgery as necessary

[otiebrown]

Hi Dr. Lee,
I customized my Snellen, by going from 20/50, to 20/20.
Took me two years.
Refractive change, from -0.75 Diopters to +0.5 diopters.
Thanks for your advice!

[SteveKSub]

Not sure I understood correctly. With a LAL installed you can not take any of the medications listed? Not sure what all those medications are used for just concerned if in the future I'll face the choice of medication to cure whatever OR loosing/effecting my eyesight.. Also how much UV does it take to effect these lenses. Being on a boat on a sunny day without sun glasses enough to tweak the adjustment of the lens?

[charlescripe]

59 yr old male, in great health. I had this surgery July 2023 and my vision has been ruined. My eys will not adjust or work together (one near, one far} and the blur or cloudiness has never gone away. Any suggestions going forward? Vitrectomy? Remove and replace seems very risky. Scottsdale, AZ BDP eyecenter.

[anitas]

Thank you for all your information about cataract surgery. I have watched a lot of your videos. This was very informative. Could you please do a video discussing lens implants and significant astigmatism?

[Lilbit]

Within in a few hours i have surgery in my left eye. I'm so ready.

[johnreese]

Thanks! Just had my surgery and you have been a big help on the matter!

[kamilcopur]

I am 36 and I have been already had keratoconus on my left eye since 2013. I got used live with my kc with the help of toric lenses and my right eye has already been seeing well but at december 2022 one day in the morning I relized that my right eye has very very cloudy. I made a small research about the sympthoms and I concluded that this is PSC(Posterior Subcapsular Cataract). I also went to a doctor and the doctor also confirm that it was PSC. As time passes it progressed some more and now I almost couldn't read the black writing on a white paper and I almost couldn't read the computer screen in light mode. Since my left eye has already kc up to having PSC I have been using my left eye and right eye was only helpful. But now if I don't put my special hybrid lens on my left eye, the vision is terrible especially sunny days... I don't know what to do and what to choose!! I have doubts if catarct surgery really satisfactorily correct my vision and provide me my previous vision or will I be disappointed again after suregry? I even don't know if the surgeons can completely clear the blurry parts without defracring the posterior capsul?? Many questions???!!!

[tomychalunkal]

Do we need a paid follow up
Check ups after the cataract
Surgery and if it is how often
It will be and after the surgery
What are the precautions we
Should take???

[srk]

Hi . Am a general Ophthalmologist and I would like to know if SMILE can be done for a eye 6 months after manual small incision cataract surgery+IOL. Please let me know.

[temtationeyes]

My vision has naturally been 1 close/1 far & I didn't need glasses til both got worse with age. My dr won't do monovision surgery with basic lenses but suggests LAL.

But LALs are SO expensive. Is it possible to do a basic lens in one eye & LAL to match it in the other.

I canceled surgery until I figure this out.

[tedc]

Is this a good lens for high minus eyes? I also have had vitrectomies on both eyes. Would I be a good candidate? Thanks for the info...