Refractive Lens Exchange Provides Baby Boomers with Clear Vision

OVERLAND PARK, Kan. (March 5, 2008) - Refractive Lens Exchange (RLE) can provide a "four-in-one procedure" to patients of the baby boomer generation. RLE is an outpatient procedure that removes the natural lens and replaces it with a premium accomodating lens. "The benefits are excellent near vision, excellent distance vision, and it eliminates the need for future cataract surgery. RLE provides visual stability since the Intraocular Lens (IOL) will not age like the natural crystalline lens," said Jason E. Stahl, MD.

Stahl, a refractive surgeon with Durrie Vision in Overland Park, has seen his RLE practice double in the last year. "There is a small percentage of these patients who are true Medicare cataract insurance (patients), but our real constituents are baby boomers," Stahl said.

His patients have active lifestyles, are invested in improving their quality of life and do not want to follow their parents' footsteps by waiting until they experience a decline in vision to have cataract surgery.