Dr. Randolph Kinkade, Connecticut optometrist and founding member of the International Academy of Low Vision Specialists, has been treating macular degeneration for over 30 years with high power and telescopic eyeglasses. These special glasses provide the necessary magnification to help some ability to read by moving the image of what is being viewed to healthier parts of the macula and retina.
The Implantable Miniature Telescope (IMT) is another alternative to improve vision suffering from macular degeneration. This is a new surgical option for patients with advanced macular degeneration, who up to now have had limited options for improving vision. It offers new hope.
The implant is smaller than the tip of a pencil erasor and uses micro-technology to magnify images that would have normally fallen on the blind spot in vision created by macular degeneration.
Macular degeneration is a disease that affects the macula in the center of the the back of the eye. A healthy macula helps deliver detail vision to the brain. The loss of the macula's ability to "see" makes it hard or very difficult to read, write, drive, or recognize faces clearly. Macular degeneration affects both eyes, although one eye may be more impaired than the other.
Patients tell me "my center vision is obstructed...if I could only see through that veil".
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