Deploy Optical offers new hope for elderly patients with eye diseases

Deploy Optical offers new hope for elderly patients with eye diseases

A new and re volucionário treatment for illness s degenerative eye among the elderly is being used in the United States. A mini telescope is installed on glo bo patient's eye to restore his vision .

Jane Waterman, 79, says macular degeneration began to affect his visionthere a few years ago. She barely could see the faces of people . When someone spoke to me, I had to ask: "Are you Falanof me? "says the elderly.

Macular degeneration is an aging process which begins harming central vision.  Until now, there was no actual treatment.

Waterman is one of primeir the s person to experience the call CentraSight  , a mini telescope the size of a pea, implanted inside the eyeball.  It works as if it were the lens of a camera photo printing.

"Until and nas , patients with macular degeneration had to use telescope s mounted on the lenses ofhis glasses, "di z ophthalmologist Dr. Gina Cottle.  " CentraSight d capacity increases patientsusually coexist with the ther people, because they can observing an image with a simple movimentar of head instead of limiting your peripheral vision through  telescope mounted n the glasses. "

The s doctors say that the adaptation of the patient who had implanted the CentraSight takesbetween six months to a year . During this period, users perform specific rehabilitation exercises, which will provide an ad aptação efficient implantation.

"It's just a matter of teaching the brain to use the implant because it is unlike anything I've ever experienced," said Waterman.

For her, the change was dramatic , because in just three months she was able to adapt .

"It's wonderful, and it gets even better c om the weeks went by , "said Waterman.

This surgery is not for everyone, you must 75 years or more to get the implant, and you may not have been subjected to any surgery before cataract .