Mercy Eye Center

Refractive Lenses

Refractive lenses are a surgical solution for patients with cataracts and presbyopia which is the loss of near and immediate vision. Your Mercy Eye surgeon is able to replace your natural, but diseased, eye lens with Crystalens, a new artificial lens that provides a fuller, more natural range of vision. Crystalens was modeled after the human eye and like your natural lens, it uses your eye muscle to flex and accommodate to focus on objects at all distances. Crystalens provides patients with a restored broad range of vision, and renewed visual clarity, sharpness, and depth. Mercy Eye Center surgeons use Crystalens because it is the:

• first and only FDA-approved accommodating intraocular lens
• only FDA-approved intraocular lens (IOL) that uses the eye’s natural focusing ability
• only FDA-approved presbyopia-correcting IOL for cataract patients that provides a single focal point through a continuous range of vision