A common issue faced during the aging process is a gradual decline of vision, which is often due to clouding of the lens inside the eye, known as a cataract. This lens is the same one that starts to stiffen in your 40s, requiring reading glasses or bifocals due to worsening near vision. Although symptoms of cataracts might be minimal at first, as time passes, it can greatly … [Read more...]
How to Maximize Visual Outcome During Cataract Surgery
As you may know, a cataract is the clouding of the natural lens in the eye and is most commonly associated with aging. Other risk factors such as smoking, diabetes and steroid use can accelerate cataract formation. Cataracts affect almost 22 million Americans age 40 and over. By age 80, more than half of all Americans will have cataracts, according to the National Eye … [Read more...]