Get access to toric lenses (IOLs) in Hertfordshire, Essex and London

Discover how this toric lenses for astigmatism can eliminate your dependence on glasses or contact lenses

Get access to toric lenses (IOLs) in Hertfordshire, Essex and London

Discover how this toric lenses for astigmatism can eliminate your dependence on glasses or contact lenses

Overcome blurry astigmatism with no additional medical risk

Toric lenses are a single-focus lens that do not introduce haloes or other additional optical side effects

Toric Lenses suitability criteria

Toric lens implants help patients with astigmatism to see better after lens replacement and cataract surgery.

It’s important to consider the use of toric lenses in preoperative planning before an operation is undertaken. Your suitability for toric lenses can then be determined.

The preoperative planning enables your eye surgeon to assess how much astigmatism is present in the cornea, and it’s orientation i.e. which direction it takes in the cornea.

Toric lens implants are lenses that are implanted internally inside the eye to replace the natural lens when it has been removed as part of a cataract operation or as part of a refractive lens exchange operation.

Toric lenses have a special shape, which means they are suited to patients who suffer from astigmatism issues that arise from a different curvature of the cornea or lens in your eye.

Unlike a standard contact lens with a spherical surface, a toric lens is a geometric shape that resembles the surface of a doughnut i.e. has a dip in the middle.

This special shape helps to create different refractive, or focusing, powers on the vertical and horizontal orientations, making it suitable to correct astigmatism.

Advantages:

  • Toric intraocular lenses (Toric IOL) can precisely correct blurry astigmatism.
  • They correct the corneal shape, which causes refractive errors.
  • Toric IOLs improve your vision significantly, usually offering patients clearer vision than they have ever experienced before.
  • They offer no additional medical risk.
  • You get to correct more than one eye condition with Toric IOLs.
  • They are designed based on specific meridians measured from the pupil like a radius is to a circle. The meridians determine the power of the lenses, which should be specific to your astigmatism.
  • Different meridians in the toric lenses also mean that the lenses cannot rotate around the eye.
  • Toric lenses offer protection from blue light known to damage the eyes progressively.

Disadvantages:

  • Given the limited range of toric lens powers, imperfect keratometry measurements, and variability of the posterior cornea, even with the best surgical technique it is impossible to completely eliminate every patient’s astigmatism.
  • Occasionally, a patient will require a second procedure to optimise the correction of astigmatism; this advance discussion can be extremely helpful when addressing an error during the postoperative period.

When a patient has a large degree of astigmatism, a toric lens would be beneficial, however, lens implant surgery (cataract surgery or refractive lens exchange), will change the shape of the cornea, and will induce or create astigmatism in the cornea, so the preoperative planning has to account for the change in the eye that the surgery will produce.

It’s very important, particularly in patients who have a very low degree of astigmatism before the surgery, that the change induced by the operation is accounted for. If it isn’t, astigmatism could be made worse.

When a patient has a significant degree of astigmatism, a toric lens IOL is an ideal option. Toric lenses come in both monofocal and multifocal varieties.

Step one: Preoperative consultation.
It’s very important in the preoperative planning to assess how much astigmatism is present in the cornea and its orientation (which direction it takes in the cornea).
Step two: Lens selection.
Your eye specialist will discuss with you the benefits of toric lenses, both monofocal and multifocal varieties.
Step three: Axis marking.
Once the patient is positioned for surgery, the eye surgeon can use a corneal meridian marker to mark the desired target axis.
Step four: Lens implantation and orientation.
Step five: Postoperative consultation.
Occasionally, a patient will require a second procedure to optimise the correction of astigmatism; this advance discussion can be discussed during the postoperative consultation.

Regular toric lenses are known to increase focus and clarity significantly for either distance or close up vision without dependence on contact lenses or glasses.

There are also multifocal toric lenses, which correct astigmatism and improve vision both for short and longsightedness.
With this vision correction surgery, everyday tasks can be more easily accomplished.

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Do you have hazy and cloudy vision (even with glasses)? Do colours appear less vibrant? Are you finding it harder to drive or see at night? If you answered yes to any of these questions, it’s possible that you have a cataract.

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Wish for a life free from glasses or contact lenses? Are they making life inconvenient for you or getting in your way? We appreciate how it feels to have to deal with the constant hassle of visual aids.

Vision correction surgery can help you ditch your specs and discover the freedom you’ve been missing.

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Besides decreasing quality of life, eye conditions can cause anxiety. Whatever your particular eye condition, we can help you get an accurate diagnosis and a proven treatment plan.

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Academic resources on toric lenses

Learn more about toric lenses from authoritative sources

The purpose of this study is to contrast the clinical and vision-related quality of life outcomes between Synergeyes, a hybrid contact lens, and toric lenses.

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Toric lenses can be used as an alternative or adjunct to corneal astigmatic incisions for correcting preexisting astigmatism in patients with cataracts.

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A.N.,
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“Ms Madi was excellent with explaining the procedure and being reassuring at all times. Great carer. Her staff explained everything to me clearly and the following morning I had a wonderful clear vision and the colours of everything I saw was amazing.”

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Essex

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Essex

“Silvana Madi was very professional. She explained everything about the condition of my eyes and how the procedure would go ahead, as well as everything that would happen in the weeks following my procedure. She was very confident in her professional role.”

A. N.,
Loughton

“Ms Madi was excellent with explaining the procedure and being reassuring at all times. Great carer. Her staff explained everything to me clearly and the following morning I had a wonderful clear vision and the colours of everything I saw was amazing.”

W.G.,
London

“Ms Madi was excellent with explaining the procedure and being reassuring at all times. Great carer. Her staff explained everything to me clearly and the following morning I had a wonderful clear vision and the colours of everything I saw was amazing.”

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Essex

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Silvana Madi is a consultant ophthalmic surgeon specializing in laser eye surgery, corneal disease treatment, and traditional and lifestyle cataract surgery. She has over 10 years of experience in ophthalmology that includes:

  • performing combined cataract surgery and glaucoma treatment (MIGS) to reduce glaucoma eye drop dependency.
  • an abundance of experience in glaucoma management, including high-risk and complex cases.
  • the most up-to-date practices in corneal transplants to improve quality of vision
  • all corneal surgeries including intracorneal rings (INTACs) or PTK to help patients with keratoconus reduce dependence on their glasses
  • over 15000 procedures to restore vision, remove dependency on glasses and optimise visual health.