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Dr. Andy Watkins is the first physician in our region to be given the green light to implant a new lens in cataract patients that has been shown to dramatically reduce their dependency on glasses following surgery.

The Tecnis Multifocal IOL - which was approved by the FDA last month - will soon be another option available to ophthalmologists throughout the country for the millions of patients who undergo cataract surgery each year.

“This new lens provides the very best near (reading) vision, great computer vision and wonderful distance vision,” said Dr. Andy Watkins, medical director and surgeon at the Watkins Eye Center in Houston.

“The Tecnis lens provides the best near vision in all light conditions when compared to other mulifocal IOLs (Intraocular Lenses) on the market today. In addition, the complaints of glare and halos common to all multifocal IOLs are much less with Tecnis than with all of the other lens implants available today.”

Watkins, who was an FDA investigator for the Tecnis lens, will be among the first doctors in the nation to implant the lens when it becomes available later this month. In fact, Watkins will be the only physician in Texas who will have access to the lens upon its initial release.

“This is a great opportunity for my patients to experience what I consider to be the best option for anyone who has cataracts or who is suffering from presbyopia, a natural condition whereby the eye has a diminished ability to focus on near objects as we get older,” Watkins said.

In the U.S. clinical study on the Tecnis lens, 94 percent of patients who had the lens implanted reported that their vision functioned well without glasses for all distances, including intermediate - which is vision we use when focused on a computer screen.

Some of the other benefits of the new Tecnis Multifocal IOL include the ability to correct higher-order aberrations (spherical and chromatic abberation) for sharper vision and a design that performs well despite the size of the patient’s pupil.

The Tecnis lens has been used by ophthalmologists in Europe for several years and has a patient satisfaction rating of 95 percent, the highest of any Multifocal IOL.