Cataract Surgery
Cataract surgery replaces a cloudy natural lens with an intraocular lens. Clear Vision San Antonio evaluates how cataracts affect your daily activities and explains lens options based on your eye health and visual goals. Surgery may reduce dependence on glasses, but results and recovery vary.
At Clear Vision San Antonio, Ricardo N. Sepulveda, M.D. is an ophthalmologist with fellowship training in refractive surgery and corneal diseases at the Cleveland Clinic Cole Eye Institute. View our San Antonio and Eagle Pass locations and confirm the appropriate office and clinician when scheduling.
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CATARACTS can happen at any age, but they most often happen in people over 60. It’s a clouding of the eye’s lens. It can easily be removed and replaced by a special lens during surgery.
When should I get cataract surgery?
When cataracts reach the stage where they are decreasing an individual’s vision, causing glare and color degradation, cataract surgery is called for.
In this common procedure, your eye surgeon removes the natural lens in the patient’s eye (crystalline lens), which is replaced by a permanent lens implant. The implant is made specifically to fit the patient’s prescription and eye length for each eye.
Cataract surgery is performed on an outpatient basis and requires no stitches. Patients go home the same day. We have the most advanced technology for pre-operative testing and intra-operative lens implantation. We are able to correct farsightedness, nearsightedness and astigmatism with a high degree of precision, which may reduce dependence on glasses. The amount of vision correction varies with eye health and lens choice, and some people still need glasses for certain tasks.
After the Surgery
The patient must wear an eye shield for the first 24 hours. During the immediate post-operative period, the vision will be foggy but it will improve as the days go on. Eye drops to prevent eye infection and inflammation are required in the recovery period. Cataract surgery is performed on only one eye at a time. Patients usually have useful vision day one after surgery.