Cataracts are one of the most common eye conditions affecting patients as they age. Like grey hairs or wrinkles, this is a natural process of aging that affects everyone. Cataracts can cause blurred vision, difficulty seeing at night, and other vision problems. They can even result in blindness if left untreated for years.
Inside your eye, you have a natural lens—kind of like the lens in a camera. When you're young, this lens is clear and flexible, helping you focus and see sharply.
Over time, the lens can slowly become cloudy, like a window that fogs up or a piece of glass that gets smudged. This clouding is called a cataract.
Cataracts make it harder for light to pass through clearly, which can cause:
- Cloudy or blurry vision
- Problems with night vision
- Sensitivity to light and glare
- Difficulty reading without bright light
- Seeing a halo around a light source
- Faded or yellowed colors
- Double vision in one eye
What Happens During Cataract Surgery?
Cataract surgery at Caruana Eye Care uses advanced technology and techniques to remove the clouded lens of your eye and replace it with a clear artificial lens. We offer cutting-edge technology such as laser cataract surgery and advanced-technology intraocular lens implants to allow patients to see well without needing glasses. Your surgery will be performed on an outpatient basis, with no hospital stay, and you return home the same day.
Patients typically start seeing better the very day following surgery and usually patients can return to driving within 48 hours. Full healing from cataract surgery should be complete after 4 weeks. Only one eye is treated at a time, so the second eye won’t be treated until the first eye has improved vision.
Contact Caruana Eye Care in our Oakland Park, FL office today to schedule your consultation and to find out if cataract surgery is right for you.
