Artificial Bionic Lens Can Restore Eyesight, 8-Minute Procedure Promises Perfect Vision

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An optometrist claims that a new invented artificial lens will not only restore sight but also improve the patient's vision three times better than 20/20 vision.

Garth Webb, a Canadian optometrist created the Ocumetics Bionic Lens. CBC Canada reports that these artificial lens will help patients correct their eyesight and all it takes is an eight-minute surgical procedure to insert the lens into the eyes. The lens will correct the patient's vision in seconds "no matter how crummy your eyes are," Webb said.

Bionic Lens is for adults 25 years old and above who rely on corrective glasses and contact lenses.

"This is vision enhancement that the world has never seen before," Webb told CBC. "If you can just barely see the clock at 10 feet, when you get the Bionic Lens you can see the clock at 30 feet away." The surgery is considered to be painless and likened to a cataract surgery. According to UK Daily Mail the lens are folded into a syringe filled with saline solution and placed over the eyes.

Webb's invention was presented at the American Society of Cataract and Refractive Surgery's annual gathering attended by the top 14 ophthalmologists in San Diego.

Many surgeons from all over the world including Canada, Australia, United States, and Dominican Republic were awed by the Bionic Lens, according to Dr. Vincent DeLuise who is an ophthalmologist professor at Yale University and Weill Cornell Medical College.

"There's a lot of excitement about the Bionic Lens from very experienced surgeons who perhaps had some cynicism about this because they've seen things not work in the past. They think that this might actually work and they're eager enough that they all wish to be on the medical advisory board to help him on his journey," DeLuise said via CBC.

"I think this device is going to bring us closer to the holy grail of excellent vision at all ranges - distant, intermediate and near."

Webb is the CEO of Ocumetics Technology Corp., and has a foundation which he calls the Celebration of Sight, a group that gives financial aid to organizations that provide eye surgery in developing countries. DeLuise manages the foundation and says that some of the money will also be distributed to various eye research institutes.

Clinical trials on animals and blind human ways are underway and in about two years, the lenses could be available, Webb says via Huffington Post.