What are the signs that show I need cataract surgery? “There are several key signs that someone may need cataract surgery,” ...
After conquering the areas of refractive surgery and corneal grafting, the femtosecond laser has entered the realm of cataract surgery. It holds the promise of being a second revolution in cataract ...
Lawrence resident Donald Ogburn lies still as a laser is lowered onto his right eye for cataract-removal surgery at Lawrence Memorial Hospital. As he got ready for cataract surgery on a recent day, ...
Last year, 70-year-old Phyllis Jackson thought something was wrong with her glasses prescription. Her eye doctor said the problem was cataracts – clouding that occurs in the lens of the eye. Typically ...
Patients often ask about having their cataract surgery performed with a laser. Until recently, this technology was not available in Central Mass. First, let’s discuss what a cataract is and how this ...
For many, cataract surgery is a fact of aging the same as gray hair or wrinkles. As the eye ages, often its usually clear lens grows cloudy. By age 80, more than half of Americans either have a ...
Cataract surgery is the most commonly performed surgical procedure in the world. There are approximately 19 million cataract surgeries performed annually, 3 million of which are performed in the U.S.
MILAN, Italy — A femtosecond laser system enables fewer exclusion criteria for cataract surgery and a rapid increase in patient volume, according to one surgeon. “We acquired the laser in December ...
CHEYENNE — Local patients seeking laser-assisted cataract surgery will no longer have to commute down south to Colorado after the first laser-assisted cataract surgeries began in Cheyenne last week at ...
NORWALK -- When Ophthalmic Consultants of Connecticut (OCC) introduced state-of-the-art laser eye surgery to New England in 2011, they became the first surgeons in the region to perform bladeless ...