On September 12 North Shore Eye Care will host it's second cataract seminar.  Topics to be covered will be indications for this procedure, methods of removal, and choices of lens implant replacement.

With all the new tecnology that has become available in recent years there are now many options available to patients.  This sophisticated surgical procedure is remarkable in that it can restore visual function to a higher level than even before the cataract formed.

Cataract surgery which was once performed for patients experiencing significant visual loss is now being performed sooner as indications for this procedure have expanded.  As recently as 30 years ago people still were having cataracts removed without the replacement of intraocular lenses.

Latest technology in cataract surgery available by the board certified surgeons at North Shore Eye Care in Smithtown, Long Island.  These surgeons not not only use the latest equipment with a dedicated outpatient staff that only specializes in eye surgery, but are also well versed in the very latest intraocular lenses that are used to replace your cloudy, cataractous lens at the time of surgery.  This is crucial for those who wish to achieve independence from spectacle wear.  Offered are Alcon's toric lens for the correction of astigmatism, Alcon and Abbott Medical Optics multifocal lenses, and Bausch and Lomb's accomadative lenses.