• The safest and most successful procedure performed today.
• Typically an outpatient procedure, only a few hours are required from the patient's time.
• Patients in general go back to their everyday lives quickly.

• The patient will feel minimal or no discomfort.

• First, a small incision will be made in the eye, which will allow the surgeon to use a small instrument (the size of the nib of a pen) to break down or wash away the blurry cataract.
• As soon as the cataract is removed, an intraocular lens will be inserted though the same incision and will be secured in its permanent position.
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• After the procedure, you will rest for a short amount of time before returning home.
• You will need eye drops, given with prescription, to protect your eye from a potential infection and to help with the healing of your eye. For a few days, you might need a protective patch, so as to avoid rubbing your eye.
• Typically, the doctor will examine the eye within 24 hours.
• The patient should know that he will start experiencing a new visual system. During the first postoperative stages, his brain will learn to use the new way of processing visual information.
  
   
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Cataract

Cataract Treatment Options

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