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CATARACTS

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What is a Cataract?

Cataracts are when your eye's natural lens becomes cloudy, causing your vision to decline, and is no longer correctable with glasses or contacts. Your vision with cataracts can be blurry, hazy, have a ghosted image, cause glare and light sensitivity, and make colors dull. Surgery is the only way to get rid of a cataract.

 

Cataract Surgery:

If you are deemed ready for cataract surgery (which will be determined at your initial exam,) we will bring you in to get measurements and go over your surgery dates and details. You will be scheduled at an outpatient or ambulatory surgery center. Day of surgery you will be put under light anesthesia to help you relax for the procedure. Your eye will be numbed and dilated with drops. Your natural lens will be removed and replaced with an artificial lens. There are a few different intraocular lenses to choose from depending on if you would like to see distance, close up, or both, or if you need an astigmatism corrective lens. Recovery time is usually about a week, but differs for everyone. Below are some IOL (intraocular lens) options.

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Laser (Bladeless) Cataract Surgery:

A new premium option for cataract surgery is to go bladeless, and use a laser to make a perfect incision, every time. Please ask our staff about this option.

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IOL Options

Standard IOL: This is the option that is covered by your insurance company. You can have both eyes fixed for distance, and may need glasses to correct any astigmatism or refractive error, and will need glasses to read.

PREMIUM IOL OPTIONS:

  • TORIC IOL: This is the best option for someone who wants to reduce the need for glasses for either fixed at distance or fixed at near, by correcting the the eye's astigmatism. 

  • MULTIFOCAL IOL: Allows the patient to see both up close, intermediate, and far away. It will reduce their need for glasses for distance and for reading. 

  • MULTIFOCAL TORIC IOL: Allows the patient to have crisp vision by correcting the astigmatism, and allowing up close, intermediate,  and distance vision, reducing the need for glasses for astigmatism, distance, and reading. 

  • BLENDED/MONOVISION: This method includes getting one eye for distance, either a standard or toric IOL, and one eye for near, either a standard or toric IOL. This reduces the need for reading glasses by having one eye that can see up close and one eye that can see at a distance. 
     

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