Implanting permanent contact lenses, and other trail-blazing techniques, will be debated at the Royal Institution's 'Different Eyes, Different Worlds' event on November 19.
Open to all, the lecture is one of a series called Health Today, Science Tomorrow, and is sponsored by The Daily Telegraph.
Speaking to the national newspaper this week (November 4) on the initial operations to place internal contact lenses, Rosen said: 'This procedure is about as dramatic as they come.' The report stated that the procedure at Rosen's Manchester-based clinic costs £5,200, and involves a tiny incision made in the cornea before the surgeon 'unfurls' the lens over the pupil.
Another technique, to be discussed at the event, aims to delay the ageing process that leads to presbyopia. It has been performed on several hundred patients in America.
Deepak Chitkara, an ophthalmic surgeon at the Rosen clinic, explained: 'I place four tiny plastic stents, about the size of rice grains, into the cornea. They compress slightly and enable the muscles that hold the lens in place to work more efficiently.'
Only 14 people have been given the £3,200 procedure in this country, but the reports of its results are promising.
The lecture, which costs £8 to attend, will also discuss laser eye treatments and whether in the future spectacles will be a thing of the past.
As well as Moorfields' Professor Buckley, who will chair the event, and Rosen, who is clinical director of Boots Opticians Laser Eye Clinic, the lecture will hear from Mark Lythgoe, neurophysiologist at the University College, London.
For more details go to: www.rigb.orgEfforts to find the 'holy grail' of countering the eye's biological clock will be discussed by specialists Emanuel Rosen and Professor Roger Buckley at a special lecture this month.
Implanting permanent contact lenses, and other trail-blazing techniques, will be debated at the Royal Institution's 'Different Eyes, Different Worlds' event on November 19.
Open to all, the lecture is one of a series called Health Today, Science Tomorrow, and is sponsored by The Daily Telegraph.
Speaking to the national newspaper this week (November 4) on the initial operations to place internal contact lenses, Rosen said: 'This procedure is about as dramatic as they come.' The report stated that the procedure at Rosen's Manchester-based clinic costs £5,200, and involves a tiny incision made in the cornea before the surgeon 'unfurls' the lens over the pupil.
Another technique, to be discussed at the event, aims to delay the ageing process that leads to presbyopia. It has been performed on several hundred patients in America.
Deepak Chitkara, an ophthalmic surgeon at the Rosen clinic, explained: 'I place four tiny plastic stents, about the size of rice grains, into the cornea. They compress slightly and enable the muscles that hold the lens in place to work more efficiently.'
Only 14 people have been given the £3,200 procedure in this country, but the reports of its results are promising.
The lecture, which costs £8 to attend, will also discuss laser eye treatments and whether in the future spectacles will be a thing of the past.
As well as Moorfields' Professor Buckley, who will chair the event, and Rosen, who is clinical director of Boots Opticians Laser Eye Clinic, the lecture will hear from Mark Lythgoe, neurophysiologist at the University College, London.
For more details go to: www.rigb.org
Efforts to find the 'holy grail' of countering the eye's biological clock will be discussed by specialists Emanuel Rosen and Professor Roger Buckley at a special lecture this month.