With advances in surgical techniques, your 1-day postoperative surgery patients will walk into your office looking normal to the naked eye. Eye patches and eye shields are no longer required, and it ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . A thorough slit lamp exam and corneal topography are required before cataract surgery to diagnose irregularities ...

Saint Nicholas is said to have a twinkle in his eye, but there's a real health condition that creates a similar effect in ...

Although VA testing and slit-lamp findings, together with the patient's complaints, are usually the only parameters that lead to the decision as to whether a patient needs cataract surgery or not, ...

Dr. Greenstein answers the question: 'How Do Doctors Diagnose Cataracts?' Aug. 24, 2009— -- Question: How do doctors diagnose cataracts? Answer: Cataracts are diagnosed fairly easily in the ...

June is Cataract Awareness Month! Are you aware of this common and natural part of aging? Did you know, cataracts are the leading cause of blindness in the world? It’s true! In fact, in the U.S., ...

While the vast majority of those who develop cataracts are senior citizens, this vision-blurring condition is not always related to age. More than 90 percent of Americans have at least one cataract by ...

Three main types of lens opacity in age-related cataract are known: nuclear, cortical and posterior subcapsular cataract. Nuclear cataract is more commonly found in the elderly population and ...