NHS consultant ophthalmic surgeon, Mr Bobby Qureshi, one of the UK’s leading eye surgeons and medical director of the London Eye Hospital, recently carried out the first ever Light Adjustable Lens (LAL) implant surgery in the UK.
“This is probably the biggest breakthrough in cataract surgery for decades,” said Mr Bobby Qureshi. “We have the potential here to change patients’ vision to how it was when they were young. The change is so accurate that we can even make the lens bifocal or varifocal, so as well as giving them good vision at distance, we can give them good vision for reading.” The LAL, developed in the US by a team of Nobel Prize winning scientists, is a groundbreaking new type of lens that can give a patient “HD vision” after it has been inserted into the eye. The implant is adjusted after surgery by the safe and non-invasive application of ultraviolet light controlled by a sophisticated computer system. The lens adjustment is so precise that it is now possible to give patients 20/20 vision without glasses.
