Got Glaucoma? Let me take a selfie!

A tiny implant, attached to the synthetic lens implanted during cataract surgery, and your smartphone, with an app, can be used to monitor the pressure in your eyes. This is especially important if you have glaucoma. Glaucoma, a buildup of pressure in the eye that damages the optic nerve, is the second leading cause of blindness. An app and an implant could help save your vision by providing continuous, accurate monitoring of the pressure levels and these accurate pressure readings are crucial to the successful treatment of glaucoma. Once you have the glaucoma pressure sensor implanted on the affected eye, the downloaded app, and a special optical adapter added to your phone’s camera all you need to do is take a selfie which is then analyzed to calculate the pressure and can help you and your doctor monitor your glaucoma. So yep, here’s just one more reason to, you guessed it, Let me take a selfie!