Yes, Laser Cataract is the best possible remedy

Do you know how to treat cataracts? Regardless, cataracts are liquefied, extracted or zapped by a beam of radiation; laser cataract is one of the safest processes available with a high rate of success. Nonetheless, with the latest range of laser methods, surgeons might soon have to think twice about carrying out a surgery. 

It’s true that the emergence of femtosecond lasers has brought a new level of consistency, precision, and safety to the vital aspects of cataract surgery after a routine eye exam. Still, latest studies showed that the laser photolysis with femtosecond surgery can postpone cataract surgery by decolourizing the lenses. 

Yes, you heard it right. It is not the same process like decolourizing your hair, skin, teeth and clothes. In case of cataracts, the lenses are leached with light. The process of photobleaching includes utilizing a pulsed laser in the infrared spectrum to bleach the chromophores that accumulate within the natural human lens. By bringing the transparency to the yellow lenses caused by age through photobleaching, the requirement for cataract surgery may be postponed for 3 to 7 years.

There are various options to laser treatment, though it actually depends on the current eye condition. Nonetheless, laser cataract surgery is the most feasible option and a highly successful refractive lens exchange process. 

 As a matter of fact, by integrating the concept of photobleaching by the eyesurgeon, nillions of visually impaired people can be saved in developing countries, where the option of surgery is still not available.  However, more research is required to determine the effect of photobleaching on the refractive index of the lenses and whether it can create an asymmetric astigmatism. The future is waiting for wider concepts that will enhance the way surgeons handle cataracts these days, and eradicate surgery in the near future if possible.