Cataract Surgery What to Expect During Cataract Surgery? Sandra Lora Cremers, MD, FACS Any surgery can be nerve racking, but surgery in your eye, can cause even the most austere to be more than a little anxious. Cataract surgery remains the most commonly performed surgery in the world and has the least complications by percentages […]
HOW LONG WILL IT TAKE TO HEAL AFTER CATARACT SURGERY? What do we mean by “to heal” in cataract surgery? This can mean different things for different people. Summary: Most routine cataract surgery cases “heal” in 5-30 days, depending on a patient’s age, cataract density, eye risk factors (ie, narrow angle, short eye, previous eye
Healing after Cataract Surgery: how much time does it take to heal? Read More »
Cataract Surgery after LASIK used to send chills down every eye surgeon’s spine! The dreaded fear of a possible “Refractive Surprise” had most surgeons on their knees praying prior to, during, and after surgery. Every surgeon has had one in a LASIK patient. And no matter how well we warn patients who have had LASIK
Cataract Surgery after LASIK Read More »
Name___________________________ Date___________ Cataract and Refractive Lens Exchange Questionnaire The term “cataract” refers to a cloudy lens within the eye. When a cataract is removed, an artificial lens is placed inside the eye to take the place of the human lens that has become the cataract. Occasionally, clear lenses that have not yet developed cataracts are
Cataract and Refractive Lens Exchange Questionnaire Read More »
This is still a big question in Ophthalmology: how will a patient who has had LASIK do after cataract surgery with a multifocal intraocular lens? The issues is that we have millions of patients who had LASIK to get rid of glasses. Now as they are getting older, many of these patients are developing cataracts
The question for all eye surgeons currently is, “What is the best IOL (intraocular lens) to use on my patients who had previous refractive surgery?” Here are some papers that are helping to answer this question. In short, it depends on how much remaining astigmatism is present. If there is more than 0.75D of astigmatism,