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Originally Posted by naturallygood
You said it. For a surgeon to actually want to remove a patient's lens it would have to mean that their own natural lens was pretty much destroyed, so even if the artificial lens doesn't give very good vision, it would have to be an improvement, wouldn't it? I can't imagine a gel that I could see through well enough that it could be in my eyes and I could still read the paper, presumably.
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Since this is such a radical procedure, I doubt if it works as well as having a natural lens. You might be able to recognize loved ones and maybe even drive a car, but I'd be very surprised it someone who has had this artificial lens procedure done could read the small print in the newspaper.