Are cataracts making it challenging to perform daily activities like reading, watching TV, or driving? It could be time for you to consider cataract surgery.
Cataract surgery is a safe and effective procedure that can improve your vision and quality of life. It not only offers relief from cataract symptoms but can open the doors to better vision than you ever had before.
Keep reading to learn more about what your vision will be like after cataract surgery.
What Will Your Vision Look Like After Cataract Surgery?
Living with cataracts is like looking through a constantly foggy window. Cataract surgery eliminates cataracts by removing your natural, cloudy lens and replacing it with an intraocular lens (IOL).
The new IOL helps you regain vision lost to cataracts and cannot develop cataracts in the future. Your vision can improve in many ways after cataract surgery, such as:
Improved Night Vision
Cataracts cause visual disturbances such as increased sensitivity to light, blurred vision, glare, and double vision. In addition, a cataract can scatter light inside the eye, causing halos around light sources.
These symptoms significantly affect your night vision. Increased sensitivity to glare can cause headlights from oncoming vehicles and street lights to appear overwhelmingly intense, temporarily blinding you when driving at night.
It may also become difficult to see traffic lights and read street signs due to halos, blurred vision, or double vision. These side effects can make driving at night dangerous to you and others on the road.
Cataract surgery can eliminate the symptoms of cataracts that cause poor night vision. After your procedure, you can get back behind the wheel and cruise safely even after the sun goes down.
Brighter, More Vivid Colors
The natural lens in your eye becomes yellowish or brownish when you have a cataract, adding brown or yellow to anything you see. Cataracts can also reduce the vibrancy and intensity of colors.
As colors become yellow and washed out, you may find distinguishing darker hues such as browns, purples, and blues challenging. Cataract surgery can help you reclaim a world of vivid colors.
Following your cataract procedure, you’ll likely notice that colors are much brighter and more brilliant. That’s because you’ll be looking at the world through a crystal-clear IOL.
You’ll also be able to differentiate shades more accurately and appreciate the wonder of color around you. Imagine how amazing it will be to watch fireworks and sunsets!
Clearer, Crisper Vision
When your natural lens is replaced with an IOL, light can more effectively enter your eye, causing images to become sharper and clearer than before. Depending on the IOL you choose, you could end up with better vision than you ever had before cataract surgery.
Premium IOLs offer greater visual independence than a standard monofocal IOL. Standard IOLs can only correct for one distance, meaning you will need visual aids to see at other distances.
While premium lenses are not typically covered by insurance and have an out-of-pocket cost, they can reduce or eliminate your reliance on glasses and contact lenses, allowing you to live your best life after cataract surgery.
Cheema MD Eye Care offers many advanced IOLs, including:
Synergy IOL
The Synergy IOL takes visual clarity to the next level. Its groundbreaking design allows for clear vision at all distances and lighting conditions, making it great for patients who enjoy an active lifestyle and activities like sailing, traveling, and playing sports.
This often provides complete freedom from glasses or contact lenses for many cataract surgery patients. The Synergy IOL leverages multifocal and extended depth of focus (EDOF) technologies, delivering a continuous range of vision without sacrificing vision quality.
The Synergy IOL can also correct presbyopia or age-related farsightedness. Correcting presbyopia with the Synergy IOL can give you increased freedom from visual aids after cataract surgery or refractive lens exchange.
Toric IOL
Toric IOLs are specially designed lenses that correct astigmatism. Many premium IOLs come in a toric version.
For patients with astigmatism, selecting a toric IOL can significantly decrease the need for visual aids after cataract surgery.
Vivity Advanced Lens
The Vivity advanced lens is an extended depth of focus IOL that can provide you with clear vision at far and intermediate distances and functional vision at close distances. Its unique non-diffractive design uses X-Wave technology to stretch light instead of splitting it, meaning you’ll experience fewer gaps in your vision and fewer visual aberrations like halos and glares.
This lens is great for active lifestyles as it allows for a smoother transition between focusing powers. If you spend a lot of time driving or working on a computer, this lens could be a good choice, as you’ll experience crystal-clear vision at intermediate and far distances.
PanOptix Trifocal IOL
The PanOptix trifocal IOL is the only IOL that provides clear vision across three distinct powers: near, intermediate, and distance. This means you’ll be able to see clearly whether you’re reading a menu at your favorite restaurant, watching a movie with your grandchildren, or playing tennis with your friends.
The PanOptix trifocal IOL is an excellent option for patients who spend a lot of time doing up-close activities, like using their phone, reading, or knitting. This lens can reduce or even eliminate your need for visual aids, giving you more freedom than ever.
Enhanced Vision with Cataract Surgery
If you’re struggling with poor vision from cataracts, cataract surgery can restore your sight. If you choose a premium IOL, you may never need to use glasses or contacts again!
Are you ready to live your life to the fullest with clearer vision after cataract surgery? Schedule an appointment at Cheema MD Eye Care in Kingston, NY, today!
