Foldable Lenses

We have established ourselves as a dependable firm, committed toward manufacturing, exporting and supplying of foldable lenses in Ahmedabad, Gujarat, India. Foldable IOLs have helped alter the face of cataract surgery by improving healing time, limiting complications and making phacoemulsification the standard procedure over extracapsular surgery, all in the span of 2 decades.

At first, the new lenses and procedures were not widely accepted at their advent in the mid-1980s, physicians said. PMMA IOLs were the standard IOLs used at that time, and they were typically inserted through 5-mm to 7-mm incisions after extracapsular surgery. More than 20 years later, most surgeons now implant foldable acrylic or silicone IOLs after phaco, and PMMA lenses are used only in special cases.

Richard L. Lindstrom, MD, Chief Medical Editor of Ocular Surgery News, estimated that about 90% of the lenses implanted in the United States are foldable acrylic or silicone lenses and that the dominant lenses are one-piece or three-piece modified C-loop lens implants. Phacoemulsification is performed in about 95% of cataract removals, he said.