| 11. | Put simply, this is the removal of the cataract and insertion of a plastic intraocular lens.
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| 12. | The company is developing the first auto-focusing intraocular lens replacements for people with cataracts and presbyopia.
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| 13. | Another type of intraocular lenses is the light-adjustable one which is still undergoing FDA clinical trials.
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| 14. | Aspherical intraocular lenses ( IOLs ) have been used clinically to compensate for positive corneal spherical aberrations.
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| 15. | The intraocular lenses used in correcting astigmatism are called toric and have been FDA approved since 1998.
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| 16. | On Nov . 29, 1949, he successfully performed the first intraocular lens transplant on a 45-year-old woman.
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| 17. | The intraocular lens is made from polymethyl methacrylate, and is said to be more biocompatible with the eye.
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| 18. | In the 1980s, he had the cataract removed by English surgeon Eric Arnott and received an intraocular lens.
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| 19. | It pioneered the production of low cost intraocular lenses ( IOLs ), which are used in cataract surgery.
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| 20. | Following cataract removal ( via ECCE or phacoemulsification, as described above ), an intraocular lens is usually inserted.
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