Ophthalmologist Blog

Almost four million cataract procedures are done in the United States every year. The treatment involves removing an eye’s cloudy lens and replacing it with a clear intraocular lens (IOL).

Your eyes are delicate and complicated organs. They detect light and send signals along the optic nerve to the brain.

If you didn’t possess depth perception, you wouldn’t be able to discern the deepness, width and length of things. You couldn’t even perceive how far away something was.

The eyes of many people who are over 40 start to show signs of aging, such as cataracts. Each eye has a lens that sits behind the pupil, focuses light on the retina and sends it to the brain.