Cataracts
Don’t Return or Regrow
From time to time we hear patients ask about
whether cataracts “regrow” after they have had cataract surgery. Sometimes
patients will tell us that a friend, neighbor or relative had a cataract
regrow. The fact is that cataracts do not come back after they are
surgically removed!
When your cataract surgeon performs cataract &
lens implant surgery, the cloudy natural lens of your eye is replaced with a
clear artificial lens that is placed within a thin membrane-called the “lens
capsule”-that is intentionally left in place to secure the new artificial lens.
The new lens does not become cloudy again. However, some people do develop what is called a “secondary”
cataract some time later after the initial surgery that occurs when the thin
membrane that holds the lens becomes cloudy. With a quick painless procedure
called a YAG Laser Capsulotomy, your eye surgeon can make an opening in the
cloudy capsule, allowing light to pass through again for clear vision. This YAG
procedure almost instantly restores clear vision with the entire procedure
taking less than 5 minutes and requiring no downtime.
If you or someone you is experiencing cataract symptoms such as cloudy foggy vision, glare or difficult night driving and would like to learn more about cataracts, cataract surgery and lens implants please call and schedule an eye exam at D’Ambrosio Eye Care at 800-325-3937, visit D’Ambrosio Eye Care, or Facebook so that we can help.
D'Ambrosio Eye Care provides eye care for patients throughout greater Boston, central and western Massachusetts with office locations at 479 Old Union Turnpike, Lancaster, Massachusetts 01523, 865 Merriam Avenue, Suite 119, Leominster, Massachusetts 01453, 100 Powder Mill Road, Acton, Massachusetts 01720, 413 Main Street, Athol, Massachusetts 01331, 74 Main Street, Gardner, Massachusetts 01440 and 255 Park Avenue, Suite 606, Worcester, Massachusetts 01609.
