Category: Cataract

During cataract surgery, your cataract surgeon will remove your natural lens, which has become cloudy and hardened due to cataracts. Your natural lens is replaced by an artificial lens, known as an IOL or intraocular lens. An IOL cannot tarnish or change structure like your natural lens can with time. However, some people experience symptoms… Read More

Cataracts are a clouding of the natural lens in the eye that leads to blurred vision, difficulty seeing at night, and other vision problems that get in the way of normal activities. As cataracts worsen, they can significantly impact quality of life for those affected. If cataracts are impairing your vision, cataract surgery may be… Read More

A cataract occurs when proteins inside your eye’s natural lens break down and clump together. This process causes the lens to become cloudy, which can cause many visual symptoms. Often, cataracts develop slowly, so you might not even notice you have them until they’re more advanced. If left untreated, cataracts will eventually impact your vision… Read More

Cataract surgery restores clear vision by replacing your natural lens where the cataract is with an artificial intraocular lens or IOL. Although cataracts can’t grow back on this synthetic lens, you might develop posterior capsular opacification, also called PCO, after cataract removal. Although PCO can present similar symptoms to cataracts, the procedure to remove PCO… Read More