If you are over the age of 40, chances are you’ve experienced a decline in near vision, forcing you to wear reading glasses several times a day. Many people are fine with wearing reading glasses, while most find them annoying and aging. If you are getting cataract surgery and you have struggled with near vision in the past, the Tecnis Symfony® IOL may be right for you.

The Symfony® IOL is approved to correct presbyopia, the age-related refractive error responsible for your blurry near vision. After cataract surgery with the Symfony IOL, you can enjoy freedom from reading glasses and experience crystal clear vision.

There are multiple choices available for cataract surgery and each has its own advantages and disadvantages. All lenses used by Dr. Yuen and Dr. Tokunaga are FDA approved and come highly recommended by both Doctors and patients.

Standard Lens

Standard Lens help correct distance vision and most common among patients who undergo cataract surgery. This lens will require the patient to wear glasses for reading after cataract surgery and does not correct for astigmatism. This lens is covered by your insurance with you just being responsible for your co-pay.

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Toric Lens

Astigmatism means the cornea is abnormally shaped making it difficult to focus light causing vision to be blurred.

Toric Lenses help correct distance vision as well as astigmatism in the cornea.
The toric lens helps correct the abnormality giving you the best vision possible.

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Tecnis Symfony Extended Depth of Focus (EDOF) Intraocular Lens

The Tecnis Symfony lenses were approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration on July 15, 2016. The approval was based on results of a U.S. pivotal study involving 298 patients. In clinical studies the Symfony lens:

Provided seamless, day-to-night vision. Patients could see objects sharply and clearly at near, intermediate and far away distances, and points in between.
Provided high-quality vision. Some IOLs may leave patients with an inability to focus clearly due to competing wavelengths of light passing through the lens at different angles (known as chromatic aberration), or with vision that is not completely focused because of the shape of the lens (known as spherical aberration). The Symfony lens has been engineered to correct these issues.
Demonstrated a low incidence of halo and glare, which may be perceived as rings or blurring around bright lights. Glare and halo can sometimes affect an individual’s ability to drive at night or to perform other visual tasks.

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TECNIS Odyssey, our NEW, optimized Full Visual Range IOL

Odyssey is the first of it’s kind. An optimized Full Visual Range IOL to help patients see continuously from distant to near. Dr. Yuen first implanted Odyssey lenses in August of 2023 shortly after FDA approval in June of 2023.  It’s revolutionary design provides extremely high quality of vision over a wide range of distance while reducing dysphotopsias. Dr. Yuen and Dr. Tokunaga were selected as two of the first doctors in the world to implant Odyssey lenses. Additionally, Dr. Yuen and Dr. Tokunaga are the only surgeons approved in the state of Hawaii to implant Odyssey IOL.

At the time of writing, Dr. Yuen has successfully implanted more Odyssey lenses than any other surgeon in the world.  He was also one of the first doctors to implant Toric Odyssey intraocular lenses, allowing him to correct both astigmatism and provide patients a full range of vision.  If you have a cataract and desire a full range of vision from distance to near contact us for a consultation.

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Light Adjustable Intraocular Lens

The Light Adjustable Lens™ (LAL®) is the first and only lens that can be adjusted in the eye, after cataract surgery. Precise UV light treatments adjust the shape of the Light Adjustable Lens, giving your patients truly custom vision that is literally transformative.

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