Understanding how Prokera eye preparation products work for pre-operative enhancement is key for a patient to take advantage of the best outcomes for cataract surgery. The fact is, cataracts are one of the most common problems with eyesight today and a top reason for age-related eyesight degeneration or blindness. Well over 25 million Americans have some level of cataract development, ranging from slight sight limitation to complete blindness with blurry vision.
Eye Cataracts are Not a Dead End Situation
The cataract condition, however, can be addressed and successfully cured with surgery, but doing so takes a lot of preparation of the eye for the best possible outcomes. This can be done using Prokera’s pre-cateract optimization process. One of the key difficulties in applying cataract surgery tends to be dry eye disease or related ocular surface problems. Without eye surface optimization prior to the surgery itself, the results of such a procedure can vary significantly in terms of less than ideal results. Dry eye conditions work against the adjustment of the eye after surgery, causing complications and difficulties in healing. The results end up creating problems and poorer results for patients.
Correct Measurements Impact Surgical Success
Why does ocular surface optimization matter so much? A good amount of work has to rely on the pre-operation measurements of the eye lens. If these turn out to be incorrect specifications, then the lens can end up producing the wrong vision output for the eye. That turns into an incorrect lens function, astigmatism, or toric lens that is aligned incorrectly. For the patient, it fundamentally means that vision through the eye is hampered and malfunctions. So, the primary goal of a surface optimization treatment is to make sure the lens measurements are as accurate and correct as possible. In addition to the above, it’s possible for a patient to have a worse eye surface condition post-operation. This creates an ongoing sense of discomfort for the patient as well as dissatisfaction with the surgery in general.
A Unique Approach with a Biological Basis
The Prokera surface optimization process has been developed and applied based on a significant amount of evidence and practical support for its usage. Specifically, the Prokera amniotic membrane application has been found to be far more effective than the alternative approach of using dehydrated tissues to offset the effect of dry eye disease. Instead, Prokera’s application and bio-tissue provides a very successful and highly receptive tissue approach that works well with biological application, avoids or controls inflammation successfully, and helps avoid scarring, a key problem with post-operative eye problems.
The amniotic tissue that is the fundamental material for the Prokera optimization process has been found to be extremely beneficial for eye structure and the overall healing process after a cataract surgical procedure is applied. Studies have repeatedly found it not only improves the healing outcomes, but the optimization process also shortens the necessary time for recovery as well.
Prokera for Early Preparation
was generally applied to patients that had severe dry eye disease and were obvious candidates for significant problems in and at post-surgery given their eye condition.
However, with application
and practice in repeat cases, many eye doctors are finding that the Prokera approach has been extremely useful and beneficial in enhancing the overall cataract procedure as well as improving results in patients of all levels of dry eye disease as well as reducing the number of complications in post-surgery recovery.
Time and Age Have Impacts As Well
Because patients oftentimes try to address vision issues through other means, time goes by before opting for a cataract surgery solution. That frequently means that dry eye conditions have developed to a greater degree and many times move a patient from a mild to a serious category of pre-surgery treatment and optimization need. This is a common scenario with older patients versus those at 30 or 40 years of age. While cataract surgery is still very viable for those patients, it does come with more challenging risks and complication possibilities. Again, the Prokera optimization process helps even the playing field considerably.
Institutional Preference is Changing
optimization approach was a critical case only or last-minute application for very serious patient cases by the first eye doctors that applied it to cases they treated. A whole assortment of other treatments is usually applied first to deal with dry eye disease before the above. However, what eye doctors and eye surgeons are realizing now is that Prokera works just as well and maybe even more so in earlier stage cases, significantly enhancing results in post-surgery. The same has produced a paradigm shift in the eye surgery medical world as a result. In short, Prokera works better for preparation as well as recovery therapeutics far better than past solutions and related procedures.
A Professional Groundswell in the Works
From those eye doctors who have pushed to the forefront of leading their industry, Prokera eye optimization works very effectively. At a minimum, new patients looking at the potential for their own cataract surgery should at least ask about Prokera’s process for dry eye treatment and amniotic surface preparation. The unique amniotic tissue approach has proven to be extremely successful and will likely become more and more of a standard for cataract surgery as an increasing number of doctors learn about Prokera and how to apply it to their patients.
