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The ARTISAN® / ARTIFLEX® lens is a unique product The lens is developed by Prof Dr Jan G.F Worst, eye surgeon from The Netherlands. He’s the founder of this unique method to attach a lens in the eye with two clips on the Iris. The clips are meant to fixate the lens and they’re attached when the lens is centralized in front of the pupil where it remains permanently. The Iris will not be damaged in any way what so ever. If it’s necessary the lens can easily be detached to be replaced or removed. The lens material The
ARTISAN®
lens is made of Perspex (PMMA), an artificial material that’s completely
accepted by the human body. This became clear when pilots of the 2 WW
walked around for several years with pieces of this material in their eyes
due to shot cockpits. The development of the ARTISAN®/ ARTIFLEX® Lens The unique fixation concept was introduced in 1978 by Prof. Dr Worst under the name “Worst Iris Claw Lens” and used in cataract patients to replace the opaque natural lens. The ARTISAN® lens was implanted worldwide in hundreds of thousands of eyes. The indications were extended; from cataract to near- en farsightedness. In 1986 an ARTISAN® lens was implanted in an eye to correct nearsightedness, without the presence of cataract. The natural lens that normally is removed in cataract patients remained of course in the eye. It was a great success and the name was changed from WORST IRIS CLAW into ARTISAN®. In 1992 an ARTISAN® lens was developed for farsightedness and in 1999 a toric lens was developed that could correct astigmatism as well. The safety and efficacy of the ARTISAN® lenses was and will always be controlled in the most accurate way. A significant number of clinical trials are finalized in Europe and the US of which the results are so positive that they were published in several ophthalmic magazines. By now the ARTISAN® lens is being implanted everywhere in the world for the correction of nearsightedness, farsightedness and astigmatism. The inventor of the ARTISAN® lens, Prof. Dr Worst was decorated in several countries over the world for his unique idea.
The ARTIFLEX® lens is the
latest model based on the ARTISAN® Iris Claw principle.
Because of its foldable optic the ARTIFLEX® lens is suitable
for small incision surgery, resulting in quick visual recovery. The lens
is available for the treatment of Myopia.
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