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Having a cloudy vision and vision loss that makes it harder to perform everyday activities like reading, driving, or watching TV is a good reason for doctors to suggest cataract surgery that aims essentially at treating cataracts, which are the world’s leading cause of blindness.
Cataract surgery helps you see better by removing a clouded lens from your eye and placing an artificial lens. The two main types of cataract surgery include phacoemulsification (phaco), which is known also as small-incision cataract surgery, and extracapsular surgery.
Cataracts are more common in older adults. In the United States, more than half of people over 80 have either cataracts or had undergone cataract surgery.
If you have cataracts, you must realize that cataract surgery is the only way to treat this problem and regain your normal eyesight once again. Scientists haven’t been able to invent any medicine or eyedrops that can treat cataracts. Hence, cataract surgery is a very effective and beneficial procedure that can bring benefits such as:
Obviously, you will be a good candidate for this surgery if you have cataracts. Doctors usually suggest the surgery for:
Doctors often perform cataract surgery in an outpatient facility, and the entire procedure takes less than 20-30 minutes to complete. Therefore, you don’t need to stay overnight at the hospital. In case cataracts were developed in both of your eyes, your doctor will suggest undergoing surgery on each eye at a different time with 4 weeks apart. The steps of the procedure include:
Your doctor will start the surgery by putting numbing drops into your eye to prevent unwanted pain.
Next, they will use special tools to enter your eye, break the lens, and remove it from your eye.
Your doctor will replace the clouded lens with a new artificial lens to treat cataracts.
Cataract surgery is a routine procedure and one of the safest surgeries. However, it comes with risks, such as:
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A cataract is a clouding that affects the natural lens of the eye and leads to blurry vision. To solve the problem, the doctor removes the clouded lens by ultrasonic suction from a very small opening in the eye, then implants a fitting lens inside the eye.
– A family history of cataracts.
– Some common diseases such as diabetes.
– Excessive exposure to ultraviolet lights or dazzling sunlight in open spaces.
– An eye accident.
– Unhealthy eating and smoking.
The right time for cataract surgery varies from person to person, each according to their visual needs and pace of cataract development. If the cataract is already affecting your daily activity, you should not delay the procedure.
The doctor uses anesthetic eye drop or local anesthetic agent in most cases.
The goal of lens implantation is to reduce dependence on glasses as much as possible.
But many people would benefit from small-sized glasses for reading and driving at night.
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