Tips for Success with Trifocal Lenses | 合法醫療器材資訊網

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As many surgeons know, making patients happy with their premium intraocular lenses can be a challenge. It only gets harder when the premium lens is relatively new to the market and has a unique design. Though the PanOptix trifocal IOL (Alcon) offers the potential benefit of providing sharp vision at distance, intermediate and near, surgeons may still have questions regarding patient selection and what kind of results to expect with the lens. Here, experts share their insights on the new IOL.

The Lens’s Design

The PanOptix is composed of foldable acrylic, and has a 6-mm optic. The optic diffractive structure is in the central 4.5-mm portion of the optic and divides the incoming light to create a +2.17 D intermediate and a +3.25 D near add power at the IOL plane (approximately +1.65 D and +2.35 D at the corneal plane).1 The anterior surface is designed with negativ...