alcon just released this today. US launch first and followed by world wide release.
US launch is in March!!!!
Global rollout of Clareon portfolio has started; U.S. to launch Clareon Monofocal, Clareon PanOptix and Clareon Vivity IOLs in March with additional countries planned throughout 2022
The Clareon monofocal is here now in Canada, and I have one in my left eye! Still no Vivity, Toric, or PanOptix. My understanding of how they release new lenses is that they are made available to "preferred" surgeons first for kind of a trial market release and then make them fully available to all surgeons later. If you want to be an early adopter of the lens you may have to call around to find who has them, or call Alcon to see if they will tell you.
alcon has a press release from yesterday that kind of says available in US in march. i have vance thompson in my city who do the fda trials and were the first to do panoptix. hopefully it is very good. i am targeting May for surgery.
I'm very very curious to know if the bench data for the Clarion Vivity is the same as the Acrysof Vivity… i.e. will there be any measurable image quality difference or is it mostly just about lack of glistenings and the new injector system.
thats a good question in case material is contributing to the vivity quality.
If you do a google search and read the various articles and press releases it sounds like it's 100% about coming out with a new material that can compete with J&J in terms of clarity and long life (non-glistening / haze-free). The new material is just as good or marginally better than the J&J material… which wasn't the case with the Acrysof family. . Of course my curiosity is about the infamous Vivity MTF50 data (contrast) but I suspect that is 99% optics (the shape of the optics) not material. Although this new material can't hurt!
it is very likely that alcon has hit the jackpot for now with the physics of the optics. vivity is an edof with no rings. thats fantastic. if they have solved glistening then it is really good bonus.
You could get some idea from the monofocal comparison in this paper. . Comparison of Visual Outcomes and Patient Satisfaction Following Cataract Surgery with Two Monofocal Intraocular Lenses: Clareon® vs AcrySof® IQ Monofocal Smita Agarwal Erin Thornell . The significant factors that I can see is the reduction in PCO probability due to the sharper edges and thanks to another contributor here the light transmission is significantly higher on the Clareon than the AcrySof. There appears to be less light loss in the newer material. . FWIW I have a Clareon in one eye and a AcrySof IQ in the other eye. I don't see any difference in optical quality or brightness. They are both amazingly bright and high contrast.
I had the vivity lens installed in one eye two months ago. I still need reading glasses and in fact the reading glasses I was using before surgery or not as good in allowing me to read as they were before surgery. My doctor was concerned about the results and in fact has not performed the surgery on the second eye until he figures out what’s going on with my results. He says I have a curvature on my cornea that may cause the ineffectiveness of the vivity the lens. I can see but they are not the results that I thought I was gonna get by spending more money on the vivity lens
Robert, have you had a refraction test on your eye to see where the distance vision ended up? Perhaps the surgeon missed on the target and you are in the plus territory for needed correction. That will reduce close vision.
Did some searching to see if there is any new data / charts on the Clareon version of Vivity. I didn't find anything, but I did find an article on CRS Today from a year ago talking about the then new Clareon monofocals (regular and toric) which had this to say:
Both models are made of a novel hydrophobic acrylic material that replaced the AcrySof material used by the company since 1994. The change was prompted by concerns about glistenings, which can reduce the modulation transfer function of an IOL and thus the patient’s contrast sensitivity.
So perhaps we can assume that the modulation transfer function (MTF50 aka contrast sensitivity) for the Clareon Vivity is the same as the Acrysof Vivity (I imagine if there were any significant vision quality improvements they would be touting them) but over the course of your lifetime the Clareon version will maintain the same image quality as day 1 decades later whereas the Acrysof version may degrade slightly (although the glistening issue w/ Acrysof has been dramatically improved in the past few years so it you just for the Acrysof version I certainly wouldn't worry about it). Basically a very minor / incremental material improvement.
l thought with vivity its normal to need glasses for reading , that it only promises good intermediate and distance vision without glasses. Is your intermeidate and distance good with vivity
l am having surgery with vivity at the end of this year, should l wait for the new vivity to come out, l dont care about the glistening , but l want the best possible distance contrast and best quality distance vision, should l wait for the new vivity , will it give me better contrast and vision then the old vivity
vivity clareon will be in US this month. i dont know how it compares to acrysof except it should have lower incidence of glistenings.
I think if the contrast had improved Alcon would be saying so. I assume the contrast is the same. The new material simply won't potentially LOSE any contrast over the decades as it's more robust (no glistenings)
im getting the clareon vivity in the morning. im a little nervous
good luck. let us know how it goes.
Hi RonAKA, I would like to ask you about the blue light filter. I guess both Acrysof and Clareon have it. How do you see the colours? do yo see the white color a bit yellowish? with my blue filter glasses I see everything as yellowish tinted, specially the white color, I dont like it al all. How is it with the Acrysoft and Clareon. I am considering the vivity lenses, probably acrysof because Clareon is not still availabe where I live, Spain