I prefer to wear external glasses. Is Cataract surgery possible without implanting synthetic lens?
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Question by Police Officer: I prefer to wear external glasses. Is Cataract surgery possible without implanting synthetic lens?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cataract_surgery
During cataract surgery, a patient’s cloudy natural lens is removed and replaced with a synthetic lens to restore the lens’s transparency
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Answer by robin
No. Cataracts are a protien build up on the lens and they can’t take the natural lens out, remove the protein and then reinsert. I just had cataract surgery on both eyes and it is a pc. of cake! No pain at all and the surgery took 15 minutes. The lens can be ordered for near sighted or far sighted people and even installed with one lens designed for far away seeing and the other for close up. Before the surgergy I was almost blind. Now, after the surgery my vision is 20-25 and I don’t need glasses.
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July 27th, 2010 at 4:45 am
Do you realize what “cataract” glasses are like , without the implant ?
No one in their right mind would want to them instead of the implant. Not only do the lenses look terrible because of the high powers, but the magnification and much restricted field of view , really affected the quality of life for many people.
Back in the days before implants ( pre 1975) glasses were all that was available after surgery. Very thick + 11.00 and more was required to restore vision to an acceptable level, which was terrible compared to what the implants achieve. A + 11.00 or + 12.00 implant ( and higher ) give natural vision back after the surgery.
I kind of doubt you will find a surgeon who would agree to operate if you didn’t agree to the implant.
I presume you are over 40 , so you will need reading glasses after anyway , so you can still wear bifocals with possibly no correction at all at the top of the lenses, then your reading power at the bottom.
July 27th, 2010 at 5:18 am
a cataract is not “protein buildup”, & the implant is not a “contact lens”, its an IOL – intraocular lens. they’re not very similar.
and yes, one could, in theory, have cataract extraction w/o an implant…thats how they did it 40 years ago. the end result is you’re about +15.00 and you need super thick, super-heavy glasses or very thick, very uncomfortable contacts.
its not recommended. why would you not want an implant? this is a terrible idea.