What is a Cataract?
Cataracts occur because the eye’s natural lens becomes cloudy preventing light from being focused on the retina.
What causes Cataracts?
- Natural part of aging
- Long-term exposure to sunlight
- Diabetes
- Smoking
- Eye injuries
- Medications
What are the Symptoms of Cataracts?
- Blurry vision
- Distortion of colors
- Glare, halos
- Difficulty seeing at night
What is the Treatment?
There is no cure but to remove the cloudy lens and replace it with a man-made intraocular lens.
Cataract surgery is one of the most commonly performed procedures today at over 14.2 million surgeries annually.
- Ultrasound technology removes the cloudy lens through a microscopic self-sealing incision
- The lens is replaced with a new foldable man-made lens
Will I still need Glasses after Cataract Surgery?
- Monofocal lens: corrects nearsightedness or farsightedness for DISTANCE VISION
- Toric lens: monofocal lens that also corrects astigmatism
What is Presbyopia?
- As we age the natural lens loses its flexibility making it difficult to focus on objects up close
- Bifocal, trifocal, or progressive eyeglasses become necessary to see clearly at all distances
Multifocal Lens:
Corrects nearsightedness or farsightedness as well as presbyopia for less dependence on glasses at DISTANCE AND NEAR
Three options are available in Multifocal Lenses:
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