"How much is it worth to restore your vision to what it was years ago"

Your vision connects you to the world. Over time, however, it becomes more difficult to see clearly. That is because your natural crystalline lens is becoming larger and harder. This prevents your lens from focusing as it once did and is why you may need glasses or bifocals to read this right now. This inability to focus, or accommodate, is called presbyopia and its earliest symptom is a difficulty seeing things that are close-up. The Crystalens works like the eye's natural lens to allow most patients to see images that are near, intermediate and distant without glasses.

In order to place the Crystalens into the eye, the natural lens has to be removed. If the lens has become cloudy with age, then this is, in effect, a cataract operation. In the presence of a cataract, most insurance companies (including medicare) will pay for a portion of the Crystalens implantation.