Does Cataract surgery cause dry eye... ask the cataract doctors at North Shore eye care in Smithtown New York in Long Island
November 18, 2009 @ 07:49 AM — by unknown
Cataract surgery has developed into one of the most successful procedures in the world. Cataract surgery is done by our board certified cataract doctors and cataract surgeons at North Shore Eye Care in Smithtown new York in Long Island in Suffolk County. In cataract surgery, our patients stay in their own comfortable clothes and get IV sedation to relax. Using only eye drops for anesthesia, we complete the cataract treatment in about 10 minutes and do not use stitches or an eye patch routinely. The cataract surgery is painless in most cases and patients are able to resume their usual activities quickly after surgery.
When cataract surgery is performed, we often here that patients feel some dry eye symptoms for a few months after surgery. Dr. Jeff Martin, Dr. Larry Zweibel and Dr. John Mauro understand that having any ocular surgery may temporarily make a dry eye situation slightly worse, but that the cataract surgery population tends to have a bit of dry eye to begin with. Dry eye is quite common in postmenopausal women, people on certain medications including blood pressure medications and antidepressants, and people of advancing age. Having cataract surgery makes these dry eye symptoms that may be not noticed prior to surgery become more apparent. After a bit of time, the symptoms usually resolve or resolve with minor treatment.
In cataract surgery, our board certified eye doctors use some of the most advanced implants available including accommodating implants like the crystalens, multifocal implants like restor, rezoom, and tecnis multifocal, and the astigmatism reducing acrysof toric implant. These premium implants aim at reducing the need for glasses for far, near, or both following cataract surgery.
In Long Island New York in Suffolk and Nassau County, we see patients from centereach, selden, coram , middle island, ridge, riverhead, stony brook, setauket, port jefferson, shoreham, wading river, patchogue, medford, brookhaven, bayport, bellport, mastic, moriches, shirley, manorville, calverton, eastport, quogue, westhampton, southampton, east hampton, sag harbor, hampton bays, old field, head of the harbor, belle terre, poquott, jamesport, cutchogue, mattituck, southold, miller place, mount sinai, rocky point, and many other towns.
When cataract surgery is performed, we often here that patients feel some dry eye symptoms for a few months after surgery. Dr. Jeff Martin, Dr. Larry Zweibel and Dr. John Mauro understand that having any ocular surgery may temporarily make a dry eye situation slightly worse, but that the cataract surgery population tends to have a bit of dry eye to begin with. Dry eye is quite common in postmenopausal women, people on certain medications including blood pressure medications and antidepressants, and people of advancing age. Having cataract surgery makes these dry eye symptoms that may be not noticed prior to surgery become more apparent. After a bit of time, the symptoms usually resolve or resolve with minor treatment.
In cataract surgery, our board certified eye doctors use some of the most advanced implants available including accommodating implants like the crystalens, multifocal implants like restor, rezoom, and tecnis multifocal, and the astigmatism reducing acrysof toric implant. These premium implants aim at reducing the need for glasses for far, near, or both following cataract surgery.
In Long Island New York in Suffolk and Nassau County, we see patients from centereach, selden, coram , middle island, ridge, riverhead, stony brook, setauket, port jefferson, shoreham, wading river, patchogue, medford, brookhaven, bayport, bellport, mastic, moriches, shirley, manorville, calverton, eastport, quogue, westhampton, southampton, east hampton, sag harbor, hampton bays, old field, head of the harbor, belle terre, poquott, jamesport, cutchogue, mattituck, southold, miller place, mount sinai, rocky point, and many other towns.