Quality of Results after Cataract Surgery

As you grow older, your eye’s crystalline lens loses the ability to compensate for corneal spherical aberration. A spherical aberration is the blurring of an image due to a changing focal length created by deviations in the shape of your cornea.

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Cataract Surgery and Corneal Aberrations

A cataract is the clouding of your eye’s natural lens that happens over time. Cataract surgery can effectively remove this cataract and restore clear vision by replacing your eye’s natural lens with an implantable intraocular lens (IOL). Cataract surgery often changes a patient’s corrective prescription needs, so most people do not achieve optimal vision correction until they receive new glasses or contacts.

After cataract surgery, complications are very rare and patients may feel mild discomfort for a few days. Not only can you expect much clearer vision after cataract surgery, you are no longer plagued by the blurriness and halos associated with cataracts.

Changes in corneal aberrations can occur after cataract surgery. Optical outcomes after cataract surgery depend on two main factors combined to produce the fine retinal image: your eye's aberrations (modified by the surgery) and IOL-induced aberrations. Studies reveal that the size of the incision made during cataract surgery plays the greatest role on the optical aberrations induced by surgery. The smaller your incision the lower your corneal aberrations, and the better your quality of vision will be.

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