11. Put simply, this is the removal of the cataract and insertion of a plastic intraocular lens . 12. The company is developing the first auto-focusing intraocular lens replacements for people with cataracts and presbyopia. 13. Another type of intraocular lenses is the light-adjustable one which is still undergoing FDA clinical trials. 14. Aspherical intraocular lenses ( IOLs ) have been used clinically to compensate for positive corneal spherical aberrations. 15. The intraocular lenses used in correcting astigmatism are called toric and have been FDA approved since 1998. 16. On Nov . 29, 1949, he successfully performed the first intraocular lens transplant on a 45-year-old woman. 17. The intraocular lens is made from polymethyl methacrylate, and is said to be more biocompatible with the eye. 18. In the 1980s, he had the cataract removed by English surgeon Eric Arnott and received an intraocular lens . 19. It pioneered the production of low cost intraocular lenses ( IOLs ), which are used in cataract surgery. 20. Following cataract removal ( via ECCE or phacoemulsification, as described above ), an intraocular lens is usually inserted.
