Cataract Surgery Referrals
Dr. Green has personally performed pre and post-operative care on thousands of patients. Not only can he determine if you need cataract surgery, but he can recommend the perfect lens implant to suit your lifestyle and budget. There are several lens implant options that can give you independence from glasses. Dr. Green has referral relationships with many area eye surgeons to care for your cataract surgery needs.
Cataracts is a disease of the eye that results in the clouding of the lens of the eyeball. Cataracts prevent clear images from appearing on the eye’s retina; causing mild, moderate, even severe blurred vision.
Typically an eye disorder associated with aging (over half of the people in America over age 80 have either have a cataract or have had cataract surgery), cataracts generally occur later in life as the lens structure within the human eye changes and gets older.
What Does Cataract Surgery Involve?
Cataract surgery is the removal of the natural lens of the eye (also called "crystalline lens") that has developed an opacification, which is referred to as a cataract. Metabolic changes of the crystalline lens fibers over the time lead to the development of the cataract and loss of transparency, causing impairment or loss of vision. During cataract surgery, a patient's cloudy natural lens is removed and replaced with a synthetic lens to restore the lens's transparency.
Following surgical removal of the natural lens, an artificial intraocular lens implant is inserted. Cataract surgery is generally performed in an outpatient setting in a surgical center or hospital. Generally local anesthesia is used resulting in little or no discomfort to the patient. Well over 90% of operations are successful in restoring useful vision, with a low complication rate. Same-Day surgery, minimally invasive, small incision, no-stitch procedures with quick post-op recovery has become the standard of care in cataract surgery all over the world.
