Category: Cataract Surgery

Cataracts have proven to be a common issue. A look at the statistics around the eye issue gives a perspective about what may need dealing with as a person ages. As reported by the Center for Disease Control here are the facts around American eyes: An estimation of 11 million Americans starting at age 12 […]

Clinics like the Houston Lasik Clinic look for ways to improve surgical techniques and processes. Evaluations of new products become part of that process as studies from other ophthalmologists and institutions report their findings in journals. About 2016 Alcon released a quadrifocal intraocular lens that functioned as a trifocal one named PanOptix. Described as innovative […]

As clinical studies roll in more information on what areas an intraocular lens can do the best begin to be collected and disseminated among ophthalmologists. The Asian Pacific Journal Ophthalmology in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania did a clinical review of the PanOptix intraocular lens. Branded AcrySof IQ, the model lens has a description as a one-piece aspheric […]

Wading in the shallows of a body of water often lists as one of many families pleasurable memories. If the shoal happens in the orb of the eye, the story changes and becomes one of obtaining a better visual outcome. The condition named high myopia can become caused by developing a shallow anterior chamber depth […]

Living your life, you begin to notice the sun does not seem as bright as it once was. As you do up close work things blur more than normal. Colors of your clothes, of your vehicle, and of your home seem faded. At night headlights from other vehicles form a halo making it hard to […]

If your eyesight does not seem to be like it used to be, you are right. The longer you live the more likely you will get “the cataract.” Look for these sign. You might have a cataract… If you are age 95 you have a 100 percent chance of getting the cataract If you are […]

As we age one of the natural processes that occurs becomes the stiffening of the lens. Nothing truly has occurred as far as disease. The body has a natural progression determined by genetics, and the eyes vision becomes slightly blurred around the 40s to 50s. It takes a moment to see with clarity the way […]

If we live long enough all of us have a good chance of having cataracts. In the USA about 3 million operations occur annually making cataract surgery one the most common eye surgeries. The reason it becomes so highly recommended has been it improves the vision dramatically if all that is wrong is a clouded […]

Cataract surgeries can be complex sometimes and ORA system can remove a substantial amount of guesswork out of these complicated cases. Cataract patients can now feel more confident than ever about their eye surgery as ORA system procedure will give them the vision they want. Latest technology called ORA or Optiwave Refractive Analysis is a […]

A femtosecond defines as one millionth of one billionth of a second. Femtosecond lasers perform surgery in those types of time frames. These types of lasers prove especially useful for cataract surgery which is surgery done on the lens of the eye. These systems offer computer guided laser precision on the eye making surgery possible, […]