Refractive Lens Exchange
Using a laser, suction and ultrasound, your surgeon removes the natural lens from your eye and inserts an artificial lens that replaces your glasses prescription.
What is cataract?
Your vision is blurry because the lens inside your eye is becoming cloudy.
What causes cataracts?
Most cataracts develop with age or sometimes injury. There are a few exceptions of inherited genetics disorder or sometimes past eye surgery.
Long term use of steroids can also cause cataracts.
If you have diabetes, you are more at risk of developping cataracts.
Signs of cataract
- Clouded, blurred or dim vision
- Increasing difficulty with vision at night
- Sensitivity to light and glare
- Seeing “halos” around lights
- Fading or yellowing of colors
- Frequent changes in eyeglass or contact lens
Good to Know
To slow down the appearance of cataracts, have a healthy diet; eat colorful fruits, vegetables and whole grains. Don’t smoke. Protect your eyes from the sun. Control your diabetes.
What are my options to correct my vision?
- Cataract surgery with multifocal lens
will correct reading, mid and far distance vision even when there is presbyopia, myopia, hyperopia and astigmatism
- Cataract surgery with Toric lens
will correct distance vision even when there is astigmatism.
- Cataract surgery with monofocal lens
will usually give good distance vision but will not correct astigmatism or near vision.
Cataracts will appear in most cases after the age of 65.
