NOTHING says you’ve reached a “certain age” more than having a pair of reading glasses perched on the end of your nose. Yet baby boomers are discarding their spectacles in favour of surgically implanted intraocular lenses (IOLs). These replacement lenses work with the eye muscles to help you focus.
Sheraz Daya, consultant ophthalmologist at the Queen Victoria Hospital in East Grinstead, West Sussex, says the reason people need reading glasses as they age is because of the gradual stiffening and enlarging of the eye’s crystalline lens which helps us focus on objects at varying distances.
Denis Fusell has become one of the first patients to benefit from the test type of surgically implanted intraocular lenses. |