Is Bionic Lens available?
Is Bionic Lens available?
The first Ocumetics Bionic Lens could be available as soon as 2017, but it will only be an option for people over the age of 25 since eye structures aren’t fully formed until that age.
What does a Bionic Lens do?
The Bionic Lens is a dynamic lens that replaces the natural lens inside the eye via one of the most common and successful procedures in medicine – cataract surgery. Once there, the lens restores clear vision at all distances without any visual quality problems.
Who invented Bionic Lens?
Babak Parviz
Bionic contact lens/Inventors
Is the Bionic Lens available in Canada?
There is currently only one model of bionic eye approved by Health Canada, and available for use. The Argus II Retinal Prosthesis System by Second Sight Medical Products is designed to restore some sight to specific victims of blindness.
Is the ocumetics Bionic lens in clinical testing?
The Ocumetics’ Bionic Lens is currently undergoing clinical testing with the ultimate goal of clinical approval. As of April 2019, they have successfully adapted the design of the Bionic Lens for mass production. Seeing clearly at all distances without glasses or contact lenses is a desire for many of us, and that is fast becoming a reality.
Is there a bionic lens for contact lenses?
Well, it turns out, it’s two years away. А Canadian company called Ocumetics Technology Corporation is currently doing clinical testing for their Bionic Lens – a medical device that could make glasses and contact lenses obsolete. If everything goes smoothly, the lens could be in your eye-surgeon’s hands and in your eyes in two years.
When do bionic eyes become available to the public?
There must still be multiple clinical trials using both animal and human subjects. If all goes well, the lens should be approved and readily available to Canadians and Europeans within a couple of years of the outset of the final trials. It should be available to Americans a year or two later.
When do Bionic eyeglasses come out in Canada?
In 2016, this innovation was in the late research and development phase. There must still be multiple clinical trials using both animal and human subjects. If all goes well, the lens should be approved and readily available to Canadians and Europeans within a couple of years of the outset of the final trials.