The goal of SUPRACOR refractive treatment is to be free of glasses in most everyday situations, achieving near vision good enough to read or work on a computer without glasses while maintaining good distance focus, making life much easier and more comfortable.
With the PresbyLasik-SUPRACOR technique both eyes are treated, making it easier for patients to adapt to their new vision, unlike other techniques such as monovision, which requires the patient to adapt because only one eye is corrected for near vision.
SUPRACOR acts only on the cornea (it is based on the LASIK technique), reshaping it to compensate for the vision problems caused by the aging of the lens. It is much safer than other, more invasive types of refractive surgery.
Dr. Jorge Castanera, refractive surgeon and medical director of Instituto de Oftalmología Castanera in Barcelona, highlights the promising possibilities SUPRACOR is opening up in the treatment of presbyopia, noting that “Patient satisfaction is extremely high; they are truly impressed by the quality of their near vision and by what they can read just a few hours after surgery”.