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Stephen Buell seemed to have been born with poor vision. He stared wearing thick
eye glasses when he was just a little boy. “I was incredibly blind basically
I’ve worn coke bottles. I’ve worn glasses since I was about seven years old.”
Because his eye glass prescription was so strong, Stehpen was not a candidate
for laser vision correction. But one area physician offered him another option,
an implantable contact lens. Dr. Barrett R. Ginsberg is a corneal and refractive
surgeon who helped Stephen improves his eyesight. “It’s a small piece of colemer
very similar to a soft contact lens that I insert through a very small incision
into the eye and it sits just in front of the natural lens. And what it does it
just does the focusing for the eye just as glasses would do,” says Dr. Ginsberg.
Stephen says the I.C.L surgery was an easy procedure that provided him with
life-changing results. “I got here at seven o’clock in the morning had my
surgery went home took a nap for a couple of hours to let the anesthesia wear
off woke up and life has been wonderful ever since. It’s just such a thrill
every morning I get up and I don’t have to hunt for my glasses. Just little
things like that have been really great.” he says. Dr. Ginsberg says that most
patients feel the same way as Stephen and the results can last for years. “It’s
a very low maintenance procedure once the lenses are in they don’t move around
there’s not a plan to take them out.” Ideal patients for the implantable contact
lens are between 20 to 40 years old without a stigmatism or cataracts. The
procedure was approved by the federal drug administration. |
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