Index
- What are ICL lenses?
- What kind of conditions can ICL lenses correct?
- ICL Lenses: Collamer and Interventional Technology
- Cases where ICLs are recommended
What are ICL lenses?
ICL Lenses are phakic lenses, also known as Implantable Collamer Lenses, which are used to achieve the patient’s emmetropia through a removable lens implantation operation.
ICL Lenses are also known as Collamer Lenses and their function is related to a refractive procedure that helps the patient to correct myopia, one of the most common vision problems.
What kind of conditions can ICL lenses correct?
In the past, all patients who came to an ophthalmology office underwent laser surgery, but nowadays this new type of lens has long been used in cases of thin cornea, irregular corneas, dry eyes or when the patient in question has a very high prescription.
Now, with the new form of vision correction, the group of people who can undergo an ocular intervention is expanded and can also benefit those patients with astigmatism, myopia and hyperopia. This is because the ICL type of lens involves a wider range of eye prescription levels.
ICL lenses can help
eye pathologies
ICL Lenses: Collamer and Intervention Technology
Implantable Collamer Lenses are made with Collameroel material, which has been created to achieve a greater adaptation than any previous treatment, in order to apply the appropriate corrections to the patient’s vision.
This is composed of a collagen base, so that the lens adapts to the physiognomy of the eye without any incidence; These are flexible and soft, so they have ease of implantation in the eye. In addition to improving their ergonomics for adaptation to each eye, as well as for the correction of those vision problems (which previously could not be treated), ICL lenses are manufactured with an optimal and innovative material that also offers UV protection, but allowing light to pass through without generating any alteration of this.
The Colámero material is distinguished by having in its construction “DNA” a mixture of “polymer” and collagen, so it is biocompatible and its introduction into the human eye is not adverse. Before the patient undergoes the surgical procedure, a pre-surgical vision test is required, in which the doctor will perform a series of standard tests in order to know the characteristics of the eye and thus be able to adapt the procedure to the maximum.
ICL lenses are designed with the most advanced
technology in the sector.
Cases in which ICL lenses are advisable
In order to proceed with an optimal ICL implantation procedure, patients should be between 21 and 60 years of age and seek a type of procedure that will not result in a case of dry eye.
People who undergo an ICL procedure must have myopia from -0.5D to -18D, hyperopia from +0.5D to +10.0D, or astigmatism between 0.5D and 0.6D, and must not have experienced changes in their prescription of more than 0.5D within the last year.
The procedure by which this type of product is attached to the eyeball is by addition, so the surgical operation does not require removal of corneal tissue and the ICL lens is placed behind the iris.