Phakic intraocular lens surgery is a new option for patients that desire permanent vision correction and have significant refractive errors such as nearsightedness and farsightedness. Instead of using lasers to reshape a person’s natural...

lens, a phakic intraocular lens in placed in front of the patient’s eye, usually in front of the person’s native lens. With this intraocular lens in place, the light entering the eye will be precisely focused on the back of the eye, on the retina. Phakic IOLs work in much the same way as a contact lens, except that, since it in placed within the eye itself, it does not need to be changed.