Cataract surgery lens implant options have have changed over recent years to offers you more choice as to how to correct your vision after surgery. The only choice used to be a clear lens to replace the removed lens and coke-bottle glasses to be able to see well. Intraocular lens implants (IOLs) have changed that by allowing the surgeon to replace the clouded cataract lens with a corrective lens. There are also options as to what type of lens to use depending on what type of vision you want to have after surgery. Do you want monovision, monofocal, multifocal, accomodating, or Toric?

Monovision. Monovision is not a lens, but a type of correction. It means one eye is corrected for close vision and the other for far vision.Many people adapt well to this type of correction, especially if they have been wearing contact lenses with this type of correction previous to surgery.

Monofocal. A monofocal lens has one power of correction and is usually used to correct either nearsightedness or farsightedness, similar to contact lens correction.

Multifocal. Multifocal lenses have 2 different powers of correction, one in the center and the other power in the periphery so the eye can be corrected for both near and far vision. Similar to the concept of bifocal glasses.

Accomodating. Accomodating implants are made to change shape when you focus on something close up like reading. Similar to monofocal lenses in that they only have one power of correction.

Toric. Toric lens implants have 2 focus points instead of one, similar to multifocal lenses. These are used to correct astigmatism like your glasses, but within the eye itself. The Toric lens implant will not correct close or far vision unless set for monovision.

As you can see there are so many options for cataract surgery lens implants than there used to be. Talk to your eye surgeon about which option would work best for you.

Smelling great is easy with the abundance of perfumes, body sprays, deodorants, and lotions on the market. However, when it comes to making hair smell great, the number of choices is a lot more limited. This doesn’t make a lot of sense when you consider that the hair is very absorbent and bad smells seem to be drawn to hair like a magnet. If you are looking for ways to help your hair smell better, here is some advice.

Sweat is one of the more common contributors to bad-smelling hair. Throughout the course of a normal day, your scalp is not able to breathe completely because it is covered in hair. If you have dark hair or if you live in a hot climate, the smell of sweat can accumulate pretty fast in your hair. For people who exercise, this is a particularly big problem. If you don’t have time to wash your hair in the shower, you might want to try to use some powder in your hair like cornstarch to help absorb the sweat. Powder shampoo is a product designed to absorb the grease from your hair and make it smell fresh without having to use water and this can help you smell a lot better.

Some people who normally don’t have any issues with smelly hair find themselves scrambling for a solution after spending time at a smoky bar or club. Even staying in a house or car with a few smokers can be enough to leave your hair smelling like you are a chain smoker. The smell of smoke lingers in your hair long after you have changed your clothes and left the smoky scene, so you need to find a good way to get that smell out of your hair.

If your first instinct is to start spraying your hair with perfume, you should consider this: perfume is mostly alcohol and alcohol is very bad for your hair. Even just a little bit can dry out your hair and damage it. However, if you look around you can find a fragrance spray that is specifically designed for your hair. These sprays do not contain alcohol and do not damage the hair the way perfume does. You can also see if your regular perfume has a matching hair fragrance in the line.