Multifocal Lenses in Vienna: Your Premium Solution for a Life Without Progressive Glasses

“Multifocal lens” is the general umbrella term for all multi-power lenses. Trifocal lenses (e.g., enVista ENVY, PanOptix Pro, ODYSSEE) are the most modern subtype: They have three fixed focal points (distance, PC, near). EDOF lenses (e.g., PureSee, LuxLife) have a smooth principle without rings. They offer excellent vision at distance and on the PC without halos at night, but you may need slight reading glasses for the finest print.

No. Your eyes are completely numbed locally with drops. During the surgery (which only takes 10 to 15 minutes per eye), you will only feel slight pressure, but no pain whatsoever.

Absolutely not. The premium lens is inserted with micrometer precision into the capsular bag of your eye. Since there are no pain nerves inside the eye, you will not feel the implant when blinking or rubbing.

The biocompatible high-performance acrylates do not decompose or become cloudy. The multifocal lens lasts your entire life and never needs to be replaced.

No! Since your natural lens, prone to clouding, has been removed and replaced with a crystal-clear artificial lens, you can never again develop cataracts in your lifetime.

Months or years after the surgery, the body’s own tissue capsule, in which the new lens sits, can become slightly cloudy (posterior capsule opacification). Vision becomes milky. We “polish” this capsule painlessly in our practice with a YAG laser in 60 seconds. After that, vision is crystal clear forever.

Since diffractive multifocal lenses project multiple images (distance, near) onto the retina simultaneously, your brain must learn through neural plasticity to focus on the currently needed image and suppress the others. This fascinating neurological learning process usually takes 3 to 6 months.

Halos are fine light circles that appear at night around bright light sources (e.g., car headlights) because light is refracted at the grooves of the lens. Through neuroadaptation, the brain learns to suppress these halos. For most patients, they are no longer bothersome in daily life after a few months.

Due to the physical splitting of light into multiple focal points, not 100% of the light energy reaches the retina for the near image (physical contrast loss of approx. 10-15%). In a dimly lit restaurant, a little more light (mobile phone flashlight) often helps to read the menu sharply.

Visual recovery is rapid. Most patients see excellently at a distance on the first day after surgery. The fine-tuning of reading near vision stabilizes in the following weeks.

Most patients are able to return to work and work on a screen 2 to 3 days after the operation. Heavy physical work should be avoided for 1 week.

Light exercise (jogging, cycling) is permitted after 3 to 4 days. Swimming (Old Danube, thermal baths) and sauna are strictly forbidden for 3 weeks to avoid severe bacterial infections inside the eye (endophthalmitis).

Absolutely not on the day of surgery. At the medical check-up the following day, Dr. Derhartunian will give you consent as soon as the legally required visual acuity is achieved.

FLACS (Femtosecond Laser-Assisted Cataract Surgery) is the robot-assisted premium method. A femto laser opens the lens capsule in a mathematically perfect circle. This guarantees the exact centering of the multifocal lens – a crucial factor, as decentration would massively reduce optical quality.

Make-up particles and cream vapors jeopardize the absolute microbiological sterility in the operating room. Come with a freshly washed, “naked” face.

Please completely refrain from eye make-up for at least 1 week to prevent dangerous infections from mascara bacteria.

Contact lenses deform the cornea and distort the AI-supported biometry values we need to calculate your multifocal lens with micrometer precision. You must remove soft lenses 1 week and hard lenses 4 weeks before the examination.

For lens exchange, we often prefer a gap of a few days to a week between the right and left eye. This allows us to optimally monitor wound healing and the brain’s initial visual response.

Yes, absolutely. We order multifocal lenses in a special “toric” version. These are precisely adapted to your axis and correct presbyopia and astigmatism simultaneously.

The risk of a severe complication leading to blindness is extremely low (far below 1:10,000). The greatest theoretical danger is infection. We uncompromisingly minimize this risk through highly sterile operating conditions (Class 1 OR) and strict hygiene protocols.

Myopic eyes are anatomically longer, and the retina is under mechanical tension. If we remove the body’s own, voluminous lens and insert a flat artificial lens, the vitreous humor moves. The risk of a retinal tear or retinal detachment increases significantly. We do not unnecessarily expose you to this risk (especially before the age of 60).

The tear film is the very first refractive layer of the eye. If it is rough and disrupted, light scatters on the cornea, which massively worsens the halos of the multifocal lens and distorts the AI measurement. We treat dry eyes beforehand (Ocular Surface Optimization).

To utilize the perfect advantages of both lens systems, we sometimes implant a halo-free EDOF lens (e.g., PureSee) in the dominant eye (for perfect night vision/driving) and a trifocal lens (e.g., enVista ENVY) in the non-dominant eye (for fine reading). The brain seamlessly blends both visual impressions.

Premium safety tolerates no haste. The optical AI measurement (Swept-Source OCT), pupillary dynamics analysis (pupillometry), endothelial cell count, and retinal examination with dilated pupils (cycloplegia) require time. In addition, there is the detailed consultation about the physical compromise of the lens.

The procedure with the very latest premium lenses (2026 generation) usually costs between 3,000 and 4,500 Euros per eye. The price reflects the high-precision AI customization, the use of the femtosecond laser (FLACS), and the enormous development costs of the global market lenses.

No. Public health insurance only covers a simple standard lens for medically pronounced cataracts. Lens exchange with multifocal lenses for glasses-free vision is considered a private service. However, you can deduct the costs for tax purposes in your employee tax assessment.

Yes, in cooperation with our reliable financing partners, we offer flexible installment payment models.

Yes. Since every body heals individually, in rare cases (approx. 2-5%), there may be a small residual refractive error. Here, our EyeLaser quality promise applies: We can usually perfect the optical result without problems with a fine laser touch-up on the cornea (e.g., with Trans-PRK).