Cataract surgery recovery...ask the cataract experts at North Shore Eye Care in Smithtown New York in Long Island

Cataract surgery has been a very successful outpatient procedure for years.  A cataract is a clouding of the natural crystalline lens of the eye.  As the lens of the eye becomes more cloudy with age, patients complain of glare with headlights at night, glare with sunlight and general blurred vision.  When the cataract get to the point that it is interfering with quality of life, our board certified cataract doctors and cataract surgeons suggest cataract surgery.  Cataract surgery is performed at our Long Island New York eye surgical center.  Our patients from Smithtown and surrounding towns are able to stay in their own comfortable clothes and receive IV sedation to relax.  Our eye doctors and eye surgeons use eye drops for anesthesia and rarely use eye patches or stitches.  There are usually no needles around the eyes and patients are able to return home the very same day.  When the cataract is removed, we replace the defective lens with an intraocular implant or IOL.  This implant can be the standard type of a premium implant that allows for far and near vision without glasses.  Our long island patients have enjoyed accommodating implants like the crystalens and multifocal lenses like the restor, rezoom and tecnis multifocal.  We also use Acrysof toric implants to reduce or eliminate astigmatism.  To help with the cost of these more expensive implants, we offer zero percent financing for two years through Care Credit.

Recovery from cataract surgery is quite easy in most cases.  We have our patients use eye drops to prevent infection and reduce inflammation for a couple of weeks.  We tell our patients that they can return to normal activity after a few days, but can do almost anything right away.  Some of the premium implants take some time to get used to like a new pair of glasses, but our patients have been quite happy with the improvement in vision they have with Crystalens and toric.  Dr. Jeffrey Martin and Dr. Larry Zweibel have been voted Top Doctors: New York Metro Area by Castle Connolly ltd and North Shore Eye Care has been deemed a National Crystalens Center of Excellence by Bausch And Lomb.

In Long Island New york in suffolk and Nassau counties, we see patients from smithtown, nesconset, saint james, kings park, huntington, commack, northport, cold spring harbor, dix hills, melville, deer park, centerport, greenlawn, plainview woodbury, syosset, bethpage, massapequa, lindenhurst, sayville, bay shore, babylon, roslyn, great neck, manhasset, east meadow, merrick, rockville center, garden city, mineola, and many other towns including queens, brooklyn, new york city, manhattan, and many other towns.