Question:
do most patients toss their
glasses after catarct surgery , DR. C ???
Answer:
Most patients still need some glasses after cataract surgery, mostly
for reading, occasionally for both reading and distance. Patients
with preoperative astigmatism are more likely to need glasses after
cataract surgery.
After the first cataract is removed, then the
patient becomes very aware of the change when comparing the vision in
the surgical eye with the eye that still has a cataract. I get
comments from my patients like, "Wow, I didn't realize how dim things
had become!" or "The colors are fantastic!" For the average patient,
cataract surgery is a breeze...it should take between 5 and 30 minutes
depending on the surgeons experience and the difficulty of the
cataract (on average it takes me 8 minutes to remove one).
