Cataract Surgery Dallas / Fort Worth

Behind the pupil of your eye you have a lens.  As you age that lens eventually becomes cloudy, typically impacting vision after the age of 60.  Cataracts can form at any age as a result of eye injury, medications, and disease or, in rare cases, they can be present at birth. Cataract surgery can be performed when the blurring caused by a cataract begins to interfere with activities that you need to do or enjoy doing. As cataracts develop in the eye’s natural lens, all cataract surgery requires the placement of an artificial intraocular lens to focus light following surgery. 

A unique option is available for patients with astigmatism in addition to the presence of a cataract.  If you have an astigmatism and are concerned primarily with improving your distance vision following cataract surgery, toric intraocular lense implants are a good option.  The toric lens is designed to reduce or eliminate your astigmatism as a part of the cataract procedure, providing you with improved quality of vision and decreased dependency on your glasses for distance vision.

The traditional, monofocal lens implant incorporates unique optics to improve image quality and contrast after cataract surgery.  We will perform several tests to determine the best power lens to help improve your vision after surgery.  Patients without astigmatism generally achieve a decreased dependency on glasses for distance.  However glasses for near and possibly distance will be required following cataract surgery with the traditional lens.