Update Trifocal and edof mix

Tempted, well yes - I would say, if there were no risk at all, I would replace the Lara with a Lisa immediately, even if it should cost me 3700$ like I payed for each lens.

But with the risk involved, I have no doubts, I will leave the Lara where it is, it is not worth the risk.

I see that there is a limit to your risk taking 😃

Yes money is no limit when it comes to eyes. People waste $$$ on latest gadgets and all kinds of trash but become miserly when it comes to their own eyes!

Colors are slightly more colorful with the trifocal, but difference is very small.

I can't provide feedback on multifocal IOLs but I presently have one Alcon monofocal (yellow tint) and one B&L Sofport A0 monofocal (clear). I can tell a very slight difference but it is so small. It does appear that white is whiter with the B&L, but some of it could be psychological.

I have an ALCON blue-light filtering IOL and I definitely notice a difference. My other lens is a Symfony EDOF and will be switched out soon because I see huge starbursts: it has the white vision. That white vision is the only thing I like about the Symfony. I think it makes colors more vivid. The surgeon only told me I was receiving an ALCON monofocal lens set for distance. Shouldn't I been told the lens was UV and blue-light blocking? Blue-light blocking lenses do not provide the best "photoreception". I didn't even think I had to ask WHICH monofocal ALCON lens I was getting. How does a patient know to ask such questions? Had I been asked and had the time to do research, I would not have chosen a blue light filtering lens .Blue-light blocking lenses do not provide the best "photoreception". There have been studies on this difference: my first response to this post included a link to it but must have been deleted by the moderator because of it.

Thanks for your replay (and Danish_Viking), too. I can't tell any difference in colors between my RESTOR 2.5D IOL and the other eye which has no IOL. I am pretty sensitve and work a lot with colors so I'm pretty sure I would notice a difference and I've been doing eye vs eye tests for 18 months now.

With time and younger and younger patients with cataracts I hope docs will spend more time discussing the options and pros and cons. Unbelievable if you didn't ask a question doc makes their own choice. They have the knowledge but it is nice to research things and have some opinion of your own.

I am still baffled why Symfony lenses for some have day time disturbances. Does your surgeon provide any explanation for that?

i agree sue. however trained the doctor is, in today's digital world -- buyer beware.

I have read statements from surgeons, that claim the visual side effects are severe with edof, if the iol don´t hit target very well.

I think this statement could be true, my Lara have hit 0.5 over the target, and it makes more visual side effects than the trifocal that have hit 0.25 short of target.

So maybe the problem is worse when they hit over the target instead of under...

On most things. I am moving houses and have to leave my appliances in house I sold. I am quite surprised that the appliances today aren't likely to run more than 5 to 10 years! My old ones are 25 and work fine. Think it's all the computers in them. Hard to believe technology helps much if all I can expect is 5 to 10 years. Makes me wonder about IOLs!!!

You could be right. Seehearnow's Symfony was specifically targeted in non dominant eye and I think targeted for less than plano. He has far less halos with that set up. EDOF lenses do give larger rings the further you ate from light source so likely worse if far sighted. Given my results I think targets pretty much achieved - more so in RE

I appreciate this is an old post, and perhaps has been discussed further later in this thread. But, it caught my eye as I am researching these issues ahead of my scheduled cataract surgery. In any case, I think Alcon's answer to your concern would be that not filtering some of the blue light would make the colours unnatural, compared to what we would see with a natural crystalline lens. See the graph below. The dark blue line is a lens without blue light filtering, while the other shaded bars are the crystalline lens and the AcrySof blue light filtered lens.