Cataracts Surgery

Cataracts Surgery

We’ve tackled procedures and exams today. You should consider today but now we are going to open your eyes to one of the most common surgical procedures for adults. It’s cataract surgery. Now, a cataract is a clouding of the natural lens inside the eye, the leading cause of vision loss in adults over the age 35 across the world. Fifty percent of humans over age 65 will have cataracts, three million surgeries every year in the US alone.

Now, if you have clouded, blurred, dim vision, you may need to consider surgery. Now it’s come a long way. The surgeon simply remove the eye’s clouded natural lens replaces it with an artificial lens. It’s outpatient and get this, they can sometime do on 15 to 30 minutes. You can really go from blindness to seeing in that amount of time little or no pain, recovery is quick and you can also resume normal activities that same day over 95 percent success rate.


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