Richard went for his cataract check up last Tuesday. Everything is good and he can wear his scleral lens again. He's noticing a great improvement in his vision as well.
Modern cataract surgery is truly amazing. A cataract is a clouding of the lens of the eye. The clouding can be the result of congenital disease, trauma, medications, and most often, aging. Most everyone gets some degree of cataract as they age. In Richard's case, they were the result of steroid treatment for myeloma.
People with cataracts see like this:
To eliminate the cataract, a tiny incision is made in the cornea. An ultrasound probe is inserted to break up the lens. The lens is then extracted with suction. The new artificial lens is folded to fit through the tiny incision. After the lens is inserted, it unfolds and is left in as a permanent replacement. The outpatient surgery takes about 20 minutes and most patients leave in less than two hours. Find more detailed information
here and cool animation
here.
Richard went for his cataract check up last Tuesday. Everything is good and he can wear his scleral lens again. He's noticing a great improvement in his vision as well.
Modern cataract surgery is truly amazing. A cataract is a clouding of the lens of the eye. The clouding can be the result of congenital disease, trauma, medications, and most often, aging. Most everyone gets some degree of cataract as they age. In Richard's case, they were the result of steroid treatment for myeloma.
People with cataracts see like this:
To eliminate the cataract, a tiny incision is made in the cornea. An ultrasound probe is inserted to break up the lens. The lens is then extracted with suction. The new artificial lens is folded to fit through the tiny incision. After the lens is inserted, it unfolds and is left in as a permanent replacement. The outpatient surgery takes about 20 minutes and most patients leave in less than two hours. Find more detailed information here and cool animation here.