The ARTISAN^®/ ARTIFLEX^® lens is a small "contact lens" that’s not placed on, but in the eye. The lens is positioned in the anterior chamber in front of the iris. It will stay here for the rest of your life.

Only a specially trained surgeon can do the treatment. First you are given a local anaesthetic to numb the eye after which a small incision is made in your cornea. The lens is inserted through this opening in the anterior chamber. When the lens is positioned exactly in front of the pupil it is fixed to the iris with two clips on each side of the lens. This technique is unique.  

After the treatment you will be able to see immediately but your vision is at its best after about one - three weeks in most of the cases. The treatment takes 30 minutes and with the standard care before and after the surgery the total stay at the hospital is about two hours.

The second eye is often treated when the wound in the first eye has healed; this would usually be two to three weeks after the first eye.