The goal of cataract surgery is to be as close to 20/20 vision for distance, intermediate, and reading without glasses. This can be a challenge if a patient has corneal astigmatism (the window of the ey is shaped like an American football than basketball), macular problems, optic nerve problems, a lazy eye, or other optical […]
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The goal of cataract surgery is to be as close to 20/20 for distance, intermediate, and reading vision without glasses, but this usually requires special implants, such as the Trifocal-PanOptix intraocular lens (IOL) and Femtosecond Laser Assisted Cataract Surgery which also helps decrease corneal astigmatism by making small microscopic cuts in the cornea. While there
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Residual astigmatism remains a key complaint of patients and surgeons alike after what seemed like “perfect cataract surgery.” The issue is that the cornea, the window of the eye, can have a curvature that is more like a football than basketball. And this curvature can change depending on age, genetics, history of eye rubbing, dry
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How to Best Treat A Corneal Ulcer: Standard Way But now there is a new way below.. While I have never had a patient have corneal infection or any other infection after LASIK, cataract surgery, or any other surgery to date (thanks be to God!), I see many corneal ulcers from patients who use contact
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Benefits of Laser Peripheral Iridotomy (LPI) for Narrow Angle Before Cataract Surgery The below papers give two reasons why it is likely better to have a Laser Peripheral Iridotomy (LPI) for Narrow Angle before Cataract Surgery. While Cataract extraction will get rid of the narrow angle, in many cases it is better to do the LPI
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When Should I Have Cataract Surgery? Should I Wait to Have Cataract Surgery? When I was a resident, my attendings would teach us to tell patients to wait to have cataract surgery until they could no longer drive or read. Many times they would tell patients that their cataract were not “ripe.” Many things have
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Why do Patients Prefer Laser Cataract Surgery? Femtosecond Laser Cataract Surgery or Laser Assisted Cataract Surgery (LACS) A few years ago, as of about 2010, no one had a real choice on what type of cataract surgery to have. The only options were: 1. Intracapsular cataract surgery: a very traumatic, archaic surgery requiring the surgeon
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Phaco Smash: My Surgical Technique and Great News This week I received great news: my surgical technique of Phaco Smash had the lowest CDE (Cumulative Dissipated Energy) numbers of all the surgeons in our surgi-center on both the LenSx femtosecond laser and the Catalys femtosecond laser. This is great news indeed. The term CDE is not discussed often with patients,
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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
The Costs of Cataract Surgery: 2014-2015 Sandra Lora Cremers, MD, FACS Visionary Ophthalmology, Rockville, MD Cataracts are still the leading cause of blindness in the world. Cataracts are also the leading cause of PREVENTABLE blindness in the world. Thus cataract surgery is the most commonly performed surgery in every country. A common question is, “Does