Laser Cataract Surgery
Offers a Gentler Approach
When you visit The Eye Care & Surgery Center for a
cataract evaluation and decide to have cataract surgery to help improve your
vision, lifestyle and mobility, based on our eye examination and the health of
the delicate structures and tissue inside your eye, we may recommend using
laser cataract surgery to provide you with a more gentle cataract surgery and
lens implant procedure.
According to researchers reporting in the Journal of Refractive Surgery, laser
cataract surgery does indeed allow for a gentler cataract surgery procedure.
While there is really little or no difference between traditional or manual cataract surgery and
laser cataract surgery in uncorrected distance visual acuity, corrected
distance visual acuity, surgically induced astigmatism, and corneal aberrations,
the laser cataract surgery was gentler
on the cornea as it caused less loss of fragile endothelial cells and less
corneal swelling from the cataract surgery. This is related to the fact
that by using the laser energy to “presoften” the cloudy lens material of the
cataract we are able to use considerably
less ultrasound energy during the “phacoemulsification” portion of the
procedure making the overall procedure much gentler. In addition, the amount of time required for the more
intense phacoemulsification parts of the cataract surgery procedure-chopping,
fragmenting and removing the cataract are significantly lower with the laser
cataract surgery.
If
you or someone you know has a question about laser cataract surgery and lens
implants please call The Eye Care & Surgery
Center at 908-789-8999, visit The
Eye Care & Surgery Center, Google+ or
facebook.com/eyecareandsurgerycenter to schedule an appointment.
The Eye
Care & Surgery Center is located at 592 Springfield Avenue,
Westfield, New Jersey 07090, 10 Mountain Boulevard, Warren, New Jersey 07059
and 517 Route One South, Suite 1100, Iselin, New Jersey 08830, and is conveniently located for patients from throughout
central and northern New Jersey.
