Cataracts and dry eye...ask the cataract experts at North Shore Eye Care in Smithtown New York in Long Island

Cataract surgery is a very successful outpatient eye surgery that many people benefit from each year.  At North Shore Eye Care in Smithtown New York in long island, we specialize in advanced cataract surgery and laser vision correction.  Our board certified eye doctors and eye surgeons do the very best in cataract surgery and have an unconditional commitment to excellence.  In cataract surgery, our cataract surgeons use topical eye drop anesthesia with IV sedation.  In that way, we are not placing needles behind the eye.  We then use gentle ultrasound called phacoemulsification to remove the cloudy or defective lens and replace it with an intraocular lens implant or IOL.  This IOL can be a standard IOL that is used to see distance, but not near.  You can also elect to have a premium IOL that allows a patient to see far and near like the accommodating lens, crystalens or the multifocal implants like the restor, rezoom, or tecnis multifocal.  We also specialize in the toric implant that reduces or eliminates astigmatism.  North Shore eye care has been deemed a National Crystalens Center of Excellence and Dr. Jeff Martin and Dr. Larry Zweibel have been voted "Top Doctors: New York Metro Area" by Castle Connolly.

In many cataract cases, our patients already have dry eye.  Dry eye can cause a gritty foreign body sensation or blurred vision with effort.  When watching a movie, reading a book, or driving a car, vision begins to blur after about 15 minutes.  Patients may also have a red irritated eye, excessive tearing, and itching.  Dry eye is a change that many women get due to menopausal hormonal changes.  Aging is a cause of dry eye.  Certain medications such as blood pressure medications, anti-depressants, and others cause dry eye.  Environmental changes can cause dry eye as well as irritants in the air.  With all this, cataract surgery will make dry eye worse for  a short time.  It is often necessary to treat dry eye postoperatively  especially when using premium implants.  These more complex implants require a good ocular surface for best performance.  The eye doctors at our Long Island New York practice are experts at treating dry eye.

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