What is a Cataract?
A cataract occurs when the eye's natural crystalline lens becomes cloudy. Imagine how an old headlight cover on a motor vehicle becomes oxidized and yellow. In much the same way, time takes its toll on the lens inside your eye, causing it to lose transparency. A cataract appears as a yellow-to-white cloudiness near the eye's pupil, and may interfere with vision by causing dulling of colors and glares/haloes around light sources.
Cataract surgery is the most commonly performed surgery in the United States. In the hands of a highly educated and experienced catarat surgeon, like Dr. Paul Cutarelli, cataract surgery has evolved into to a state-of-the-art medical marvel, involving no shots, no stitches, and no patches. Dr. Cutarelli's modern cataract surgery techniques offers a very low risk of complications. During the cataract removal procedure, the eye's natural lens is liquefied using phacoemulsification and gently vacuumed out through a micro-incision. The tiny replacement lens, called a lens implant, is then inserted in a folded position, which opens in its proper place inside the lens capsule.
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