Everything you should know about refractive cataract surgery

 A cataract is basically a clouding of the lens of the eye that may affect vision to a certain extent, depending on its seriousness. As it is considered to be a normal effect of aging, cataracts mainly affect older adults, although a family hereditary might put younger people at stake also. Your lifestyle frequently changes drastically if you start developing cataracts.

Refractive cataract surgery

Cataract surgery is here for quite some time now, and some things haven’t changed like the facts and there is no way of removing cataract from the lens without removing the lens itself. Therefore, during any surgery for cataracts, the natural lens of the patient will be replaced with a new clear lens. The refractive version of this surgery is meant to eradicate the cataract while also enhancing the overall vision of the patient.

Selecting IOLs

There are various versions of IOL available for the patients these days:

·     Technologies like ReSTOR, comes with concentric rings for multiple distance viewing. It can also be folded, thereby enabling the surgeon to insert it through a small incision. 

·         ReSTOR lenses come with concentric circles that enable the dry eye to see images clearly that are both far away and close.

Other advantages of the surgery

Eliminating the cloudiness associated with cataracts is, obviously the main goal of the surgery. But with the contemporary IOLs, refractive cataract surgery can also assist with farsightedness, nearsightedness, Glaucoma and also these conditions: 

·     Astigmatism: This condition is the main reason people used to require contact lenses or glasses after surgery. Lenses called toric IOLS are now available to cure astigmatism during surgery. 

Presbyopia: This is a condition impacting everyone entering the middle age, makes it harder to focus on objects closely. All the lenses mentioned above provide presbyopia treatment.