The Best Lens for Cataract Surgery
Cataracts can make your vision look cloudy, blurred or dim. This can make it difficult to do everyday activities, including reading or driving at night. During cataract surgery, your eye’s natural lens is replaced with an intraocular lens (or IOL, for short). These lenses bend light rays as they enter your eye, which helps you […]
Benefits of Cataract Surgery
You’ve almost made your decision. You’ve read up on when to have it, what to expect during it, and now you want to understand the benefits of cataract surgery. Of course, that can seem like a rather obvious answer. After surgery, you should expect better eyesight, right? While the answer to that is certainly a […]
What to Expect During Cataract Surgery
As you age, you will become more susceptible to developing a cataract. In fact, half of us will have cataracts by our 80th birthday, according to Harvard Health. What exactly is a cataract? It’s a condition that causes your eye’s lens to slowly change from clear to cloudy and can begin to develop as early […]
Four Types of Intraocular Lenses
A cataract can cause your eye’s lens to become “cloudy,” like looking through a foggy windshield. During cataract surgery, your clouded eye lens is removed and replaced with a clear, intraocular lens. Similar to the function of your eye’s natural lens, the intraocular lens bends light rays entering the eye, which helps you to see. […]
When to Have Cataract Surgery
By our 80th birthday, half of us will have cataracts, according to Harvard Health. Cataracts are a condition that causes your eye’s own lens to slowly change from clear to cloudy. It typically occurs over time, but you don’t have to be in your senior years to be susceptible to it. In fact, it could […]
Choosing Multifocal IOLs
After the removal of the cloudy lens, the next step of cataract surgery is to restore the patient’s vision. For those who do not want to wear contact lenses or eyeglasses, multifocal IOLs are the next best choice. In the past, cataract surgery was aimed at restoring a patient’s vision for basic tasks. If someone […]
How to Prepare for Cataract Surgery
Cataract surgery is the best option to restore cataract damaged vision. With a 95% success rate, it is one of the most effective ways of restoring sight with minimal down time. The first step of the process involves running tests to determine the type of IOL (Intraocular Lens) to suit your eyes. The tests will […]
Different types of Premium IOLs
Premium Intraocular Lenses or IOLs are artificially created lenses that are used to replace the natural lens after a cataract surgery. Traditional IOLs only offer vision at one specific distance type and need to be used with contact lenses or eyeglasses for the other distances. As for modern premium IOLs, they come in various different […]
Complications of Cataract Surgery
Cataract surgery is one of the most common surgeries performed in the US. With a high success rate of 98% out of about 3 million surgeries each year, complications are almost unheard of. However, it is possible for things to go wrong during a cataract surgery for a number of reasons and it is best […]
Cataract Surgery for Infants and Children
Congenital cataracts and childhood cataracts are not very common. However, in the event that a child or infant has cataracts, it is not easy to predict how much their vision will be improved after the treatment. In most cases, children tend to have a reduction in vision even after the treatment. Cataract surgery is the […]
