LASIK and Eye Surgery Blog - Clearview Eye and Laser Medical Center

In our San Diego, California Medical Laser Center, we offer cataract surgery to restore vision after cataracts have developed. It's a matter of removing the cataract-clouded natural lens, and replacing it with an artificial lens.

At first that might seem like a rather drastic step to take. But the alternative is drastic too: eventual blindness. There is no way of stopping or reversing cataract formation and removing the lens is the only way to remove the cataract.

Actually, it's a simple surgery and here's how it works.

Through a very small incision at the side of the eye, and using ultrasound (silent, fast, and gentle), Dr. Feldman breaks up the clouded lens. It is then easy to remove by gentle suction. The membrane which surrounds the lens is left in place.

The artificial lens (intraocular lens, abbreviated as IOL) is then inserted through the same incision and placed within the same membrane which enclosed the natural lens. There are four IOLs we offer, and they all give you clear vision at multiple distances. They each use a different technology to do that. One of them, Crystalens, is attached to the same little eye muscles which controlled the natural lens. Now they control the IOL.

Subjectively, you will not feel any difference having an IOL in your eye instead of its natural lens. There will be small differences in your vision that you will quickly become used to, and your vision will be very much clearer than it was with the cataract lens still in place. That increased clarity is noticeable at once and increases during the first week. You can resume your normal activities that same day or the next day.

You can read more about all this on our Cataracts page and Cataract Surgery Questions page. You might also want to take a look at the many enthusiastic Testimonials to Dr. Feldman’s skill.

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