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...advanced cases, the patient is left nearly blind. As Hollywood Screenwriter Leonard Spigelgass, 68, who has had two lenses implanted, recalls: "Your lenses turn into agate, and you're forced to look through stone." Removing these shadowed lenses allows light to enter the eye but creates another problem. The lens of the normal eye focuses the light rays; without it, vision becomes hopelessly blurred. Under such circumstances, the patient has only a few options: thick glasses, contact lenses or the artificial lens implant. The special spectacles restore vision to normal levels but, in the process, magnify images...
...lens implant provides vision almost matching that of the natural lens without these troubling side effects. Moreover, the plastic lenses, available in a variety of designs and optical powers, can be chosen before implantation to correct other vision problems, including near-and farsightedness. By picking the correct power of the implant lens, New York Medical College Ophthalmologist Miles Galin, who has done more than 2,000 implants, is often able to reassure patients before surgery: 'You'll probably see better without glasses than you did before the cataract developed...
Growing use of the implant technique is partly a response to demand. Many women who discover that they have breast cancer are no longer willing to submit to disfiguring radical mastectomies, which involve the removal of the entire breast, underlying muscle and neighboring lymph nodes, even if they show no trace of cancer. Though mastectomies have been favored by U.S. experts as the surest route to survival in cases of breast cancer, some doctors are beginning to have doubts about them. Dr. Samuel Hellman of Harvard's Joint Center for Radiation Therapy points out that radical surgery...
...share his enthusiasm for the ankle, which costs $375, plus the cost of the operation. Ben Lujan, 35, a Los Angeles insurance salesman whose right ankle was immobilized after four operations to correct an old athletic injury, thought he would have to give up sports before he underwent an implant operation. "Letting Waugh put in the ankle was the best decision I ever made," he says. Lujan has reason to be enthusiastic. Two months after surgery, he was back walking a golf course. He also made his first hole...
...since 1969 there has been a dramatic improvement in the quality of breast reconstruction. One reason was the development by Dr. Thomas Cronin of Houston of an improved implant. Another is the introduction of a newer, though relatively little-used implant that overcomes most of the problems of earlier prostheses. It is divided into three compartments that reduce its tendency to shrink or collapse; the implant also has a fuzzy polyurethane covering that helps hold it in place against the chest wall. "It makes a dramatic difference," says Dr. Randolph Guthrie of New York's Memorial Hospital for Cancer...