If you need cataract surgery in both eyes and choose standard lenses, it is sometimes possible to correct one eye to see ...

Introduction Cataracts are an all too familiar ailment that affects millions, usually distorting vision and reducing people’s ...

The light-adjustable lens is the world’s first customizable intraocular lens after cataract surgery. Hartford HealthCare is providing an innovative treatment to help patients achieve optimized vision, ...

In fact, it was doctors at St Thomas' who were responsible for the first cataract replacement surgery in the world in the 1950s. 'Over the years, the type of material that is used in the lens has ...

For those who would like to avoid glasses or contacts, there are several replacement intraocular lens options. And, based on my personal experience (I have had cataract surgery on both eyes), the ...

[12] In ancient times, cataracts were treated with a technique called couching, which could only be performed when the lens had become completely opaque, rigid, and heavy to the point that the ...

Replacement lens - implanting artificial lenses is a recent development, and can be placed in front of the original lens, through a small cut in the cornea, to correct an eye defects. A cataract ...

Which part of the eye does cataract affect? There are three predominant forms of cataract depending on their anatomical location in the eye lens: cortical, nuclear and posterior sub-capsular (PSC). As ...

The treatment: Most of the contact lenses fell out on their own as doctors administered anesthesia in the eye socket. After removing the remainder, the doctors postponed the woman's cataract ...

TRICARE covers cataract surgery and related supplies and services. More specifically, TRICARE covers the standard intraocular lens (IOL), a fixed lens designed to target vision at a single focal ...