North Shore Eye Care has been a leader in cataract surgery for years in the Long island and greater new york areas.  Our board certified cataract surgeons and cataract doctors strive for excellence and continue to perfect their eye care and eye surgery.  Currently, our cataract patients stay in their own clothes and cataract surgery takes a few minutes.  Through a 2 millimeter incision, our board certified eye surgeons remove the cloudy lens or cataract using gentle ultrasound called phacoemulsification.  The cataract is broken into pieces and removed in a safe and efficient way without using stitches, needles around the eyes or even an eye patch.  Patients return to their regular activities almost immediately.  Dr. Jeffrey Martin, Dr. Larry Zweibel and Dr. John Mauro are trained to handle the standard cataract as well as more complicated cataract clinical settings. One cataract setting that can be more difficult is cataract surgery in the setting of pseu

  Monovision gives reference to the use of one eye for near vision and the other for distance vision. This procedure has great success for patients with presbyopia. The surgeon typically chooses the dominant eye as the distance eye and the non-dominant eye as the near vision eye. The surgeon will then give a trial of contact lenses to simulate what what the vision would be like. If the trial is successful, then the LASIK surgeon will perform laser surgery, correcting the stronger (dominant) eye for distance and the weaker eye (non-dominant) for near vision. Patients who already have mild to moderate myopia (nearsightedness) usually do well, sometimes not even needing a contact lenses trial. Monovision uses a process in the brain called neuro-adaptation. The brain has to get used to the fact that one eye is designed for near and the other for far, perceiving two simultaneous images and tries to blend them together. It could take upto 3-4 months for this process to occur, ty