Most people are familiar with the term ”cataracts”, but don’t know exactly what they are.  Cataracts are normally an age related eye condition that results in clouding of the lens in your eye which also results in decreasing and blurring vision. Cataracts may be also caused by disease, drugs used to treat disease, environmental or genetic factors in any age group.

Laser cataract surgery has become safer and more predictable due to recent advances in laser technology. Femtosecond Laser Cataract Surgery is a recent development although the Femtosecond laser is not a new addition to the eye surgery arsenal of tools. The Femtosecond laser has been used for laser vision correction for some time. Femtosecond Laser Cataract Surgery is a recent development and Beverly Hills Vision Institute is one of the first practices in the Los Angeles area to use this groundbreaking technology.

It is enlightening to understand the process of cataract surgery, because the cloudy lens in the eye is removed and replaced with a new lens to correct the patient’s vision. Femtosecond Laser Cataract Surgery is performed with small, uniform and precise corneal incisions including Limbal relaxing incisions to correct astigmatism, and it also creates a precise circular capsule opening to the lens which allows the surgeon to remove the cataract. Femtosecond Laser Cataract Surgery provides precise lens power predictions long term and this means patients can get potentially improved visual outcomes.  Surgeons may also use Femtosecond Laser Cataract Surgery and Presbyopia correcting lenses to give more people better vision at all distances, which means patients no longer need glasses or contacts for vision correction at all distances.