Deformed Lens Syndrome
Our eyes, like our body, are subject to aging over time. Even people who have not needed to wear glasses for many years may begin to experience problems with near and far vision over time.
After seeing for years, have you started to experience problems such as blurred vision, glare, and difficulty driving, especially at night?
If your answer to these questions is yes, the reason for the decrease in your vision may be due to Deformed Lens Syndrome, that is, the normal aging of the natural intraocular lens in your eye.
Eyes function just like a camera. Thanks to its flexibility, your healthy natural intraocular lens in your eye changes and adjusts its shape and thus its focus according to the distance of what you want to see and focus on; In this way, you can see things that are far away, in the middle distance and near you, just like the zoom function of a camera.
What is Distorted Lens Syndrome (DLS)?
The healthy natural intraocular lens, which has not yet been deformed or lost its properties, allows light to enter the eye without being dispersed, creating glare or blurry images. In DLS, the natural intraocular lens in the eye loses its camera function over time. You experience focus problems when looking at things in the near, middle and far distances. With Deformed Lens Syndrome, your natural intraocular lens loses its flexibility and hardens, meanwhile losing its clarity and becoming dull.
How Does Deformed Lens Syndrome (DLS) Occur?
The first stage, It starts in your 40s, when your natural intraocular lens loses its flexibility, at least partially. Many people at this stage try to overcome this problem by using near reading glasses or bifocal glasses.
When you reach your 50s and 60s, you enter the second stage, where the light transmitting and vision abilities of your natural intraocular lens deteriorate. This leads to a decrease in image quality due to increasing yellowing and deterioration of light distribution; It causes night vision to weaken, causing you to need more light, especially at night.
In your 70s, Deformed Lens Syndrome enters the third stage, also called cataracts.
Previous Eye Does it affect someone who has had laser surgery?
DLS naturally occurs over time and also affects patients who have previously had LASIK surgery, because LASIK is a treatment applied only to the corneal layer above the eye, not the intraocular lens itself. .
What is the Treatment of Deformed Lens Syndrome?
In the second and third stages of Deformed Lens Syndrome, your natural intraocular lens that has lost its function becomes a Smart Eye. It can be fixed by replacing the inside with a Lens. This replacement improves and balances the light transmission and vision abilities of your lens.
With Smart Intraocular Lenses, it allows you to see at far, medium and close distances.
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