Cataract removal involves removing the eye's clouded natural lens and replacing it with a clear artificial lens called an ...

Cataract (Yarod in Hebrew) is the clouding of the eye's natural lens. Typically, the lens is transparent and assists in ...

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 ...

In addition, innovations in intraocular lens material have enabled ... relaxing incisions and toric IOL are options to correct corneal astigmatism during cataract surgery. Zonular-supporting ...

Microincision cataract surgery (MICS ... The use of the modern MICS intraocular lens (IOL) requires incisions of 1.8 mm. The increased availability of MICS IOLs allows to select the best IOL ...

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 ...

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 ...

75 years ago, on November 29, 1949, Dr. Harold Ridley implanted the first intraocular lens in an eye after cataract extraction at St. Thomas Hospital in London. The introduction of an intraocular ...

According to Dr. Ganesh, maternal infections, poor nutrition, diabetes, or substance use during pregnancy can increase the ...