Light Adjustable Lens

Customize and Test-Drive Your Vision After Cataract Surgery

Customize Your Vision with the Light Adjustable Lenses

At Apex Eye Associates, we are proud to offer the latest innovation in cataract surgery technology - the Light Adjustable Lens. This cutting-edge lens allows for increased precision in vision correction, providing our patients with customized visual outcomes tailored to their unique needs. Experience the future of cataract surgery with us at Apex Eye Associates. Schedule your consultation today and see the world in a whole new light.

What’s so special about the LAL?

The RxSight™ Light Adjustable Lens is the first and only intraocular lens (IOL) that can be customized after cataract surgery. The Light Adjustable Lens is made of a special photosensitive material that can be adjusted with ultraviolet (UV) light. These adjustments are done by your eye doctor in the weeks following lens implantation through a series of non-invasive light treatments that take only a few minutes each. You will have the unique ability to preview your vision until it meets your personal desires and lifestyle requirements. The Light Adjustable Lens delivers superior vision outcomes that non-adjustable IOLs cannot match.

Light Adjustable Lens Fast Facts

  • Customizable

    The first and only adjustable intraocular lens (IOL) that allows your physician to customize your vision after your cataract surgery.

  • Increased chance for 20/20 vision

    Patients who received the Light Adjustable Lens followed by adjustments were twice as likely to achieve 20/20 vision at 6 months without glasses as those who received a standard monofocal IOL

  • Adjustable Lens Material

    The Light Adjustable Lens is made of a special photosensitive material that changes the shape and power of your implanted lens in response to ultraviolet (UV) light.

  • Light Treatments

    Light treatments that precisely reshape your implanted lens are delivered in your doctor’s office to adjust your vision to the desired target. Light treatments are painless, non-invasive, and last approximately 90 seconds.

  • Test-Drive Your Vision

    You will have the unique ability to preview and compare possible vision outcomes based on your preferences and lifestyle requirements.

  • # of Sessions

    You may need 2 to 5 total light treatments over a period of a few weeks to reach your vision goals.

  • UV protective glasses

    You will need to wear special UV protective glasses during all waking hours (from time of lens implantation until after the last light treatment is completed) to prevent exposure to indoor and outdoor sources of UV light that can cause uncontrolled changes to the Light Adjustable Lens.

The First and Only Lens That Can Be Customized AFTER Cataract Surgery

With traditional intraocular lenses (IOLs), your physician performs measurements before your surgery in order to select the best IOL to try to achieve your vision goals. Once your surgery is complete and the IOL has been implanted, your physician has limited options to adjust the lens power. With the RxSight™ Light Adjustable Lens, you and your doctor can now customize your vision after your eye has healed from cataract surgery. This is because the Light Adjustable Lens is made of a special photosensitive material that changes the shape and power of your implanted lens in response to ultraviolet (UV) light. You and your physician will have the unique ability to adjust and preview your vision until it meets your personal desires and lifestyle requirements.


The cataract removal and IOL implantation procedure is the same as if you selected a non-adjustable IOL. Then, in the weeks that follow, your physician will customize your vision through a series of non-invasive light treatments that take only a few minutes each. You may need 3 to 5 total light treatments over a period of 1 to 2 weeks to reach your vision goals. Once your vision is adjusted, a final light treatment is used to lock in the results.
The Light Adjustable Lens delivers superior vision outcomes that non-adjustable IOLs cannot match. In a clinical study, the majority of patients who received the Light Adjustable Lens achieved 20/20 or better vision at 6 months without glasses.