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A new medical invention claims to keep your vision 100% perfect for the rest of your life. An optometrist from British Columbia, Canada, believes to have invented corrective eye lenses that will revolutionize healthcare around the world. Dr. Garth Webb created the Ocumetics Bionic Lens that can make you see three times better than 20/20 vision. So not only would these new lenses correct sight problems like nearsightedness and farsightedness but would go way beyond, giving humans “bionic” vision. With this invention, the use of glasses or contact lenses would no longer be necessary for the rest of our lives.
“This is vision enhancement that the world has never seen before,” Webb told CBC. “If you can just barely see the clock at 10 feet, when you get the Bionic Lens you can see the clock at 30 feet away.”
Created at the Ocumetics Technology Corp., the Ocumetics Bionic Lens looks like a small button that replaces your original lens. It is inserted during an eight-minute eye surgery, very similar to a cataract surgery, that the doctor claims to be painless. The patient’s sight would be corrected immediately without the need of any further procedures.
The artificial lens replaces the eye’s natural lens. Therefore, this surgery would also prevent the person from developing cataracts. The only downside to it is that only people over 25 could do the surgery, since the eye is still under development before that age.
According to the CBC News, eight years of research and three million dollars were invested to create these new lenses. The invention was presented by Webb to other 14 ophthalmologists in April during an annual conference of the American Society of Cataract and Refractive Surgery and they were clearly impressed.
According to the doctor, the lens will be first tested in animals and then in blind human eyes. Then the company will seek Canadian approval for marketing the product which could be available in 2017.
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