A novel technology that implants mini telescopes into the eyes as a means of improving vision has generated immense interest globally and proffered sanguinity to scores of macular degeneration patients.
Macular degeneration is among the key reasons for sightlessness among elderly folk, assaulting core vision. The condition could make it difficult to read, watch television and make recognizing faces trickier.
Vision restoration was possible among the several macular degeneration patients who enrolled in a trial for the new-fangled technology. What, in fact, appears magical, is science at its finest – an embeddable mini telescope, tiny proportion of a shape of a coinage inserted within the eye.
Elucidating its finer nuances, Dr. Kathryn Colby from Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary, states that it has duo wide-angled high strength miniscule lenses. The telescope is operatively inserted inside the eye for providing improved core vision. The procedure is done solely on a single eye for providing peripheral vision to the other one. The human brain would merge together the duo varying views into one image.
The United States health officials have lately given their approval to this innovatory technology. The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has cautioned that the operation would not be helpful to the entire two million U.S. citizens with macular degeneration but solely to senior citizens, seventy-five years or more with a certain extent of eyesight failure and additionally requiring cataract removal.
The surgical procedure would not be able to reinstate a 20-20 vision, though it would help a person in independently doing basic everyday tasks.
Although telescope has been employed way back in the Galileo era for bringing the heaven closer, however for those macular degeneration patients, vision restoration is like their prayers have finally been answered.
