Originally Posted by
pdlamb
For the optimum choice, gaze into your crystal ball and see how things go a year after your surgery. For a large fraction of prospective patients, #1 is all they'll need. (Myself included, I don't even need the astigmatism correction I had in my glasses!) #2 might be the optimum for most of the rest, if there are some lingering problems with the eye settling and the prospect of buying multiple glasses, even with the fancy in-eye measurement (my wife is in this group). I'm not sure what the clinical evidence you'd need #3 looks like -- personally, sounds like your ophthamologist may be paying for a sailboat.
Yeah, good points. To be clear... He isn't pushing hard for any particular choice. He was pretty objective on the merits of each. He likes the Vivity the best of the premium choices. The supposed advantage as I understand it is that it has an extended range without the diffraction rings that other earlier lenses used to do that. The diffraction rings caused flare and loss of contrast. So the Vivity is supposed to give a better chance for no or at least less need for glasses with less glare/flare issues.
I'll hopefully be living with whatever choice I make for a lot of years, if so $6k isn't all that much money when weighed against any improved results if they are really improved over the cheaper choices. I still have time to mull it over, but as I said I am leaning that way. I may flip flop a few times between now and then.