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Premium cataract surgery refers to cataract surgery with premium implants.  Our board certified cataract experts specialize in these special intraocular implants at our Smithtown new york office in long island.  North Shore Eye care is proud to have the determination of National Crystalens center of excellence.

The cataract surgeons at north shore eye care in smithtown new york in long island take special care with our elderly patients.  It is important with our patients with less vital tissues and healing responses to be very gentle and perform cataract surgery with safety and precision.  Our board certified cataract surgeons are always improving technique and technology toward that end.

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 pseudoexfoliation.  The lens of the eye is held to the wall of the eye by small connective tissue strings called zonules.  Zonules create a netting that holds the lens steady as well as the implant lens or IOL following cataract surgery.  In pseudoexfoliation, the zonule apparatus is weak and the lens can be more loosely adherent.  Cataract surgeons depend on zonule support to complete cataract surgery safely.  In cases of pseudoexfoliation, our cataract doctors are ready with more gentle cataract removal techniques as well as supportive technology such as iris hooks and capsular tension rings.  With advanced technology and technique, most patients with pseudoexfoliation are able to have a routine safe cataract surgery.

In long island in suffolk and nassau counties, we see patients from smithtown, nesconset, saint james, kings park, centereach, selden, coram, middle island, ridge, riverhead, stony brook, setauket, port jefferson, miller place, mt sinai, rocky point, shoreham, wading river, patchogue, medford, brookhaven, yaphank, shirley, mastic, moriches, bellport, bayport, manorville, calverton, jamesport, cutchogue, mattituck, southold, greenport, westhampton, eastport, hampton bays, quogue, southampton, east hampton, montauk, amagansett, and many other towns.

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.

In long island new york in suffolk and nassau counties, we see patients from smithtown, nesconset, saint james, kings park, commack, huntington, northport, greenlawn, centerport, dix hills, melville, deer park, bay shore, babylon, massapequa, lindenhurst, sayville, bethpage, plainview, woodbury, syosset, manhasset, garden city, east meadow, rockville center, merrick, levitttown , manhasset, jericho, muttontown, oyster bay, glen cove, port washington, farmingdale, farmingville, franklin square, mineola, roslyn, new york city, brooklyn, bronx, queens, and manhattan.

Macular degeneration is a widespread eye condition that causes loss of central vision in patients.  Typically, macular degeneration is an eye problem of advancing age and is more typical in fair skin and light eyed patients.  Macular degeneration runs in families and tends to occur slowly; therefore regular eye examinations are important.  The eye doctors at North Shore Eye Care in Smithtown new york in Long island examine many patients with this eye problem and typically see drusen or calcification in the macula, which is the center of the retina, as the first sign.  Patient complain of metamorphopsia which describes distortion of a visual image.  There are treatments for macular degeneration including eye vitamins, laser and possible injections for wet macular degeneration.  Macular degeneration is dry when there is no bleeding under the retina and wet when new blood vessels form and start to bleed under the retina.  As patients age, cataracts develop as well.  A cataract is a clouding of the natural lens of the eye.  When a cataract develops in a patient with macular degeneration, it can be difficult to determine whether vision loss is attributed to the cataract or the damage to the retina.

At North Shore Eye Care, our board certified cataract surgeons attempt to make sure that cataract surgery in the setting of macular degeneration will be helpful to our Long Island patients.  We have the retina evaluated by a retinal specialist and use highly technologic tests like OCT. Our cataract doctors do counsel our patients to make sure that expectations can be achieved.  We help our macular degeneration patients to understand that cataract surgery will have certain visual benefits, but may be limited based on retinal disease.  At times, we are pleasantly suprised with the visual performance after cataract surgery.  If you have macular degeneration and are told that you have cataracts as well, contact the cataract specialists at North Shore Eye Care in Smithtown New York for an eye evaluation.

In Long island new york in suffolk and nassau counties, we see patients from smithtown, nesconset, saint james, kings park, centereach, selden, coram, middle island, riverhead, ridge, stony brook, setauket, port jefferson, miller place, mt. sinai, rocky point, shoreham, wading river, yaphank, shirley, mastic, moriches, patchogue, medford, bellport, bayport, brookhaven, bluepoint, manorville, cutchogue, calverton, jamesport, mattituck, southold, eastport, remsenburg, westhampton, east hampton, quogue, hampton bays, southampton, sag harbor, montauk, amagansett, and many other towns.

North Shore Eye Care has been a leader in cataract surgery for many years.  The board certified eye doctors and eye surgeons at our smithtown new york office in long island are always trying to improve upon the state of the art outpatient surgery.  Cataract surgery is performed through a 2 millimeter incision using eye drops for anesthesia.  Our patients stay in their own clothes and return home the very same day.  We use IV sedation to keep our smithtown long island patients comfortable and our cataract surgeons perform cataract surgery in just a few minutes.  We specialize in premium implants that are designed to reduce or eliminate the need for glasses and contact lenses such as accommodating lenses like crystalens and the Acrysof Toric implant for the reduction or elimination of astigmatism.  We also use multifocal implants designed to make our suffolk county patients glasses independent.  The multifocal lens implants are the restor, rezoom, and tecnis multifocal. 

Some of our patients use blood thinners such as aspirin, coumadin, plavix or vitamin E for certain health problems.  These medications can be beneficial to blood flow and heart health, but they will make a patient bleed more freely.  In cataract surgery, there is usually no blood loss and therefore, stopping blood thinning medication is not a necessity.  However, our board certified eye doctors feel comfortable with stopping blood thinners if possible because there is always a small risk of bleeding.  That being said, Dr. Jeffrey martin, Dr. larry zweibel and dr. john mauro have performed cataract surgery on many patients on full anticoagulation without a problem.  It is important that you discuss blood thinners with your primary care doctor before stopping the use of these medications.

In long island in suffolk and nassau counties, we see patients from smithtown, nesconset, saint james, kings park, huntington, cold spring harbor, commack, northport, centerport, greenlawn, dix hills, melville, deer park, massapequa, lindenhurst, sayville, bay shore, babylon, farmingdale, plainview, bethpage, syosset, woodbury, roslyn, jericho, westbury, rockville center, garden city, east meadow, merrick, manhasset, glen cove, great neck, manhattan, bronx, brooklyn  and queens.

North Shore Eye Care was founded in 1962 by Dr. Sidney Martin in Smithtown New York in Long Island's Suffolk county.  Dr. Martin, a board certified eye doctor and eye surgeon started his eye care center to take care of Long Islanders with glaucoma, cataracts, macular degeneration, dry eye, uveitis, diabetes and diabetic retinopathy as well as laser eye surgery later in the 1970s.  The eye care practice grew quickly and Dr. Martin took on Dr. Larry Zweibel and later, his son Dr. Jeffrey Martin.  Recently, the eye care practice took in Dr. John Mauro, a comprehensive ophthalmologist who specializes in uveitis and intraocular inflammation.  North Shore Eye Care has been a leader in cataract surgery with their board certified cataract surgeons and cataract doctors for many years.  We perform cataract surgery by an advanced technique including no stitches, no needles and no eye patch.  We use IV sedation and numbing eye drops to relax our patients, who are able to stay in their own comfortable clothes and return home the very same day.  We use gentle ultrasound or phacoemulsification to remove the defective lens or cataract and then replace the cloudy lens with an intraocular lens implants.  The new implants have been a wonderful addition to our armamentarium including the premium implants that reduce the need for glasses and contact lenses.  We use the accommodating lens, crystalens as well as the multifocal lenses, restor, rezoom, and tecnis multifocal.  These lenses help patients to see far and near without the use of glasses or contact lenses.  We also use standard implants in many patients that desire good distance vision without glasses. 

Sometimes, the capsule that holds the new implant becomes cloudy over several months.  This is a normal part of healing.  Some patients heal and the capsule remains clear and others become only slightly hazy.  If the capsule clarity interferes with the quality of vision, we suggest Yag Capsulotomy.  With yag capsulotomy, we use a gentle laser right in the office to open up the central part of the capsule.  This is painless and takes about one minute.  About one third of patients that have cataract surgery require a yag capsulotomy.  If it is necessary, patients return to  normal activity immediately after the day of the laser.

In long island new york in suffolk and nassau county, we see patients from smithtown, nesconset, saint james, kings park, islip, islandia, hauppauge, lake grove, bohemia, ronkonkoma, sayville, lindenhurst, commack, northport, stony brook, setauket, port jefferson, centereach, nissequogue, head of the harbor, old field, poquott, belle terre, sound beach, fort salonga, and many other towns.

 North Shore Eye Care was founded by Dr. Sidney Martin in 1962 in Smithtown New York in Long Island.  As a board certified eye doctor and eye surgeon, he opened his eye care practice to care for patients with cataracts, macular degeneration, diabetes and diabetic retinopathy, glaucoma, dry eye, and lid problems.  He built the practice based on the principles of commitment to excellence in eye care and eye surgery.  Today, North Shore Eye Care is located in Suffolk County of Long Island and includes three more board certified cataract and lasik surgeons, Dr. Jeffrey Martin, Dr. Larry Zweibel, and Dr. John Mauro.  All of our eye doctors are committed to the very best in cataract surgery and lasik laser eye surgery.  Dr. Martin and Dr. Zweibel have been voted as Top Doctors in the New York Metro Area by Castle Connolly ltd and North Shore Eye Care has been deemed a Crystalens National Center of Excellence by Bausch and Lomb.

The cost of cataract surgery is considerable, but in most cases insurance companies and Medicare cover the majority of the cost.  A cataract surgery takes a few minutes in skilled hands and our patients do not have needles around the eyes, stitches or an eye patch.  Our board certified cataract surgeons have been on the cutting edge of technology and technique for years and Dr. Jeff Martin teaches cataract surgery to resident eye doctors at the Va hospital at Northport.  If you decide to have a premium intraocular implant with cataract surgery so that you do not need glasses for near or far, our doctors specialize in these implants.  We use Crystalens, the accommodating implant as well as Acrysof Toric to reduce or eliminate astigmatism.  Also available are multifocal implants like rezoom, restor, and tecnis multifocal.

In Long Island New York in Suffolk and Nassau Counties, we see patients from Smithtown, nesconset, saint james, kings park, centereach, selden, coram, middle island, riverhead, ridge, stony brook, setauket, port jefferson, shoreham, wading river, miller place, mt sinai, rocky point, patchogue, medford, farmingdale, farmingville, bellport, bayport, blue point, yaphank, brookhaven, shirley, mastic, moriches, manorville, calverton, jamesport, cutchogue, mattituck, southold, eastport, westhampton, east hampton, southampton, sag harbor, montauk, amagansett, hampton bays and many other towns.

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.

Cataract surgery is a very popular outpatient procedure and North Shore Eye Care is the place in long island new york that has been a leader in cataract surgery for many years.  Our patients from smithtown new york and beyond are made comfortable in our professional and warm environment from the first day that they arrive.  We fully examine your eyes and discuss your options and if cataract surgery is warranted, our board certified cataract doctors and cataract surgeons do the very best in cataract surgery.  We perform cataract surgery at a state of the art eye surgical center.  Our patients stay in their own clothes and receive IV sedation for comfort.  The cataract surgery takes a few minutes and we do not use stitches, eye patches or needles around the eyes.  Our board certified eye doctors and eye surgeons use eye drops to numb the surface of the eye and use small incisions to remove the cataract or sloudy lens.  This is done with gentle computer controlled ultrasound called phacoemulsification.  After the cataract is removed, we place an intraocular implant or IOL to restore your vision.  We use several premium implants including crystalens, restor, rezoom, tecnis multifocal, and acrysof toric.  These premium implants are designed to reduce the need for glasses and contact lenses for all activitied including near and far vision.  For those patients that desire premium implants, we offer zero percent financing for two years if it is desired.

So when is it time to consider cataract surgery?  The symptoms of cataract include glare with oncoming headlights at night, glare with sunlight, blurred vision, decreased contrast in vision or clarity and general reduced vision.  These symptoms tend to build slowly and eventually when the symptoms begin to bother our patients and their quality of life, we decide to do cataract surgery.  Although Dr. Jeffrey Martin, Dr. Larry Zweibel and Dr. John Mauro do many cataract procedures each year, it is the patient that decides when the cataract is bad enough for them.  Depending on your visual demands, cataract surgery is performed at different times in the development of cataract. 

In long island new york in suffolk and nassau counties, we see patients from smithtown, nesconset, saint james, kings park, islip, islandia, hauppauge, lake grove, bohemia, ronkonkoma, holbrook, holtsville, sayville, bay shore, babylon, commack, centereach, stony brook, setauket, port jefferson, nissequogue, head of the harbor, old field, sound beach, belle terre, poquott, and many other towns.

Everyone knows someone that has had successful cataract surgery.  The eye doctors and eye surgeons at North Shore eye care in smithtown new york see many patients each day that require cataract surgery.  A cataract is a natural aging of the lens of the eye that causes the lens to cloud up and cause blurred vision and glare.  Many of our Long Island patients complain of glare with oncoming headlights while driving at night and glare with sunlight.  Things that used to be easy to see become difficult like reading a book or seeing traffic signs.  When these symptoms become significant enough to cause a compromise in quality of life, the cataract surgeons and eye surgeons in our Long Island New York eye care practice suggest cataract surgery. 

Cataract surgery is performed by our board certified cataract surgeons, Dr. Jeffrey Martin, Dr. Larry Zweibel and Dr. John Mauro.  We perform cataract surgery through microscopic incisions using eye drops for anesthesia which allows us to avoid needles around the eyes.  We do not use eye patches or stitches during cataract surgery and our average cataract surgery takes a few minutes and is relatively painless.  We have worked hard to develop a cataract treatment that is so easy for our patients to go through.  Dr. Martin and Dr. Zweibel have been voted Top Doctors: New York Metro Area by Castle Connolly ltd and North Shore Eye Care has been deemed a Crystalens National Cataract Surgery Center of Excellence by Bausch and Lomb.  It is important that your cataract surgeon have vast experience and use the best in techniques and technology.  In our Smithtown New York eye care practice, we use the best in intraocular implant technology including Crystalens, Restor, Rezoom, Tecnis Multifocal, and Acrysof Toric.

In long Island new york in suffolk and Nassau county, we see patients from smithtown, nesconset, saint james, kings park, centereach, selden, coram, middle island, ridge, riverhead, stony brook, setauket, port jefferson, miller place, mount sinai, rocky point, shoreham, wading river, patchogue, medford, brookhaven, yaphank, mastic, moriches, bellport, bayport, shirley, manorville, calverton, jamesport, cutchogue, mattituck, southold, eastport, westhampton, east hampton, hampton bays, quogue, sag harbor, southampton, amagansett, montauk, and many other towns.

North Shore eye care in Smithtown New York in Long Island has been a cataract surgery leader in suffolk county for decades.  Dr. Sidney Martin, a board certified cataract doctor and cataract surgeon founded North Shore Eye Care in 1962.  Back then, cataract surgery was more invasive and more difficult for patients to experience.  Today, Dr. Jeffrey Martin, Dr. Larry Zweibel and Dr. John Mauro use the latest in cataract surgery technique and technology.  Our eye doctors and eye surgeons perform cataract surgery through a small incision using eye drops to numb the ocular surface.  Our patients receive IV sedation and remain in their own clothes.  There are no injections around the eyes, no eye patch and no stitches used in most cataract operations.  The cataract treatment takes about 10 minutes on average and our patients return home the very same day.  North Shore Eye Care helps close to one thousand patients each year with cataract to see better.

Many patients want to know what symptoms to expect as a cataract worsens.  We find that glare with oncoming headlights while driving at night is a very common symptom.  Patients complain that they can not drive at night like they used to drive when they were younger.  Glare with sunlight can be significant as well.  Patients often complain of blurred vision or loss of contrast.  Things do not look as clear as they remember.  At times, symptoms progress slowly to a point that patients do not recognize these differences.  Changes in eyeglass prescription can be a significant sign of cataract as well.

In Long Island New York in Suffolk and Nassau Counties, we see patients from smithtown, nesconset, saint james, king park, islandia, islip, hauppauge, lake grove, bohemia, ronkonkoma, holtsville, holbrook, commack, stony brook, setauket, port jefferson, sayville, bay shore, babylon, and many other towns.