Hi, I live in Spain, I was interested in the vivity Clareon, but it seems that it will be available here at least second half 2023. I can not wait that long. . I visited another doctor, and he recommended me the IOL EDOF AST Asqelio. He said it is from a well known US Lab. I hardly find information about this lens, only the commercial info, and one clinical report about AST Asqelio Trifocal. Does anyone know these lenses? Is it really a well known Lab in US or in another countries? . It is also strange for me that nobody talks about it in this forum. . If you find or have info about clinical outcomes, etc, please, could you post some links? . thanks very much,
It is not approved for sale in the US. It is from a US company, headquartered near me, but I never heard of them before. From the company website: "Intraocular lenses and preloaded IOL delivery systems are CE marked only and are not available for sale in the United States. "
Thanks very much! I don’t know if I should trust the lens, it sound weird that they didn’t get the approval in US but sell them Europe… can it be that they doing the first trials abroad??
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thanks very much,
It is common. Example: The IC-8 was approved in Europe in 2014 and here in 2022 and is from a US company. Some are never brought here. We have many fewer choices and are typically 5 to 7 years behind Europe, my doctor told me. We have no toric lenses at all above 6 cylinder. In other countries there are many. I need a 9 so I will have to go to Canada. The FDA approval process is slow and costly, so companies are reluctant. In other countries there are even custom IOLs. I have not heard of that here.