Clareon PanOptix and Vivity will be available this year
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alcon just released this today. US launch first and followed by world wide release.
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Notes on Clareon PanOptix and Vivity will be available this year
soks
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US launch is in March!!!!
soks
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Global rollout of Clareon portfolio has started; U.S. to launch Clareon Monofocal, Clareon PanOptix and Clareon Vivity IOLs in March with additional countries planned throughout 2022
RonAKA soks
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The Clareon monofocal is here now in Canada, and I have one in my left eye! Still no Vivity, Toric, or PanOptix. My understanding of how they release new lenses is that they are made available to "preferred" surgeons first for kind of a trial market release and then make them fully available to all surgeons later. If you want to be an early adopter of the lens you may have to call around to find who has them, or call Alcon to see if they will tell you.
soks RonAKA
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alcon has a press release from yesterday that kind of says available in US in march. i have vance thompson in my city who do the fda trials and were the first to do panoptix. hopefully it is very good. i am targeting May for surgery.
Guest soks
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I'm very very curious to know if the bench data for the Clarion Vivity is the same as the Acrysof Vivity… i.e. will there be any measurable image quality difference or is it mostly just about lack of glistenings and the new injector system.
soks Guest
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thats a good question in case material is contributing to the vivity quality.
Guest soks
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If you do a google search and read the various articles and press releases it sounds like it's 100% about coming out with a new material that can compete with J&J in terms of clarity and long life (non-glistening / haze-free). The new material is just as good or marginally better than the J&J material… which wasn't the case with the Acrysof family.
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Of course my curiosity is about the infamous Vivity MTF50 data (contrast) but I suspect that is 99% optics (the shape of the optics) not material. Although this new material can't hurt!
soks Guest
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it is very likely that alcon has hit the jackpot for now with the physics of the optics. vivity is an edof with no rings. thats fantastic. if they have solved glistening then it is really good bonus.
RonAKA Guest
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You could get some idea from the monofocal comparison in this paper.
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Comparison of Visual Outcomes and Patient Satisfaction Following Cataract Surgery with Two Monofocal Intraocular Lenses: Clareon® vs AcrySof® IQ Monofocal Smita Agarwal Erin Thornell
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The significant factors that I can see is the reduction in PCO probability due to the sharper edges and thanks to another contributor here the light transmission is significantly higher on the Clareon than the AcrySof. There appears to be less light loss in the newer material.
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FWIW I have a Clareon in one eye and a AcrySof IQ in the other eye. I don't see any difference in optical quality or brightness. They are both amazingly bright and high contrast.
Guest
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Did some searching to see if there is any new data / charts on the Clareon version of Vivity. I didn't find anything, but I did find an article on CRS Today from a year ago talking about the then new Clareon monofocals (regular and toric) which had this to say:
So perhaps we can assume that the modulation transfer function (MTF50 aka contrast sensitivity) for the Clareon Vivity is the same as the Acrysof Vivity (I imagine if there were any significant vision quality improvements they would be touting them) but over the course of your lifetime the Clareon version will maintain the same image quality as day 1 decades later whereas the Acrysof version may degrade slightly (although the glistening issue w/ Acrysof has been dramatically improved in the past few years so it you just for the Acrysof version I certainly wouldn't worry about it). Basically a very minor / incremental material improvement.
Ainhoa14814 RonAKA
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Hi RonAKA, I would like to ask you about the blue light filter. I guess both Acrysof and Clareon have it. How do you see the colours? do yo see the white color a bit yellowish? with my blue filter glasses I see everything as yellowish tinted, specially the white color, I dont like it al all. How is it with the Acrysoft and Clareon. I am considering the vivity lenses, probably acrysof because Clareon is not still availabe where I live, Spain
RonAKA Ainhoa14814
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What you have to keep in mind is that a natural lens in a young person is not clear. It is yellow tinted. Alcon's blue light filtering attempt to match the natural lens of a young person. Alcon does seem to provide some clear lenses, but at least in Canada I don't believe they are very popular. The standard seems to be blue light filtering.
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When my first eye was done I got a blue light filtering AcrySof IQ (SN60WF). This is the blue light filtering aspheric lens, and very common here. It went in the eye that had the most advanced cataract. Before surgery I was seeing whites as kind of yellowish, as well as some double vision. When I got this lens, the vision was just amazing in comparison to what I was seeing before. Everything was bright and vivid, and to my brain the whites were very white. When I switched eyes from the one done to the other which had a mild cataract, the difference was amazing. The cataract eye was obviously yellow brown now in comparison to the operated eye.
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Recently when I had my second eye done with a Clareon monofocal (CNA0T0) which is also blue light filtering and aspheric, again there was an amazing increase in colour brightness and the whites became white. I now cannot tell any difference between the eyes, although Alcon claims the Clareon lens transmits about 10% more light than the AcrySof.
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I am quite sure these lenses will not give you any kind of yellowish tint. After my first eye was done I had to switch my 4K TV from VIVID mode to Standard, as I found the colours to be so bright they did not look natural to me.
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Alcon do make some lenses without blue light filtering, but I am not so sure how available they are. If you google this you should find a list of the various lenses and links to the technical details of each. It is not totally up to date and I don't think includes the new Clareon lenses yet though.
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Alcon Technical Product Information
robert75252 soks
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I had the vivity lens installed in one eye two months ago. I still need reading glasses and in fact the reading glasses I was using before surgery or not as good in allowing me to read as they were before surgery. My doctor was concerned about the results and in fact has not performed the surgery on the second eye until he figures out what’s going on with my results. He says I have a curvature on my cornea that may cause the ineffectiveness of the vivity the lens. I can see but they are not the results that I thought I was gonna get by spending more money on the vivity lens
RonAKA robert75252
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Robert, have you had a refraction test on your eye to see where the distance vision ended up? Perhaps the surgeon missed on the target and you are in the plus territory for needed correction. That will reduce close vision.
john20510 robert75252
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l thought with vivity its normal to need glasses for reading , that it only promises good intermediate and distance vision without glasses. Is your intermeidate and distance good with vivity