North Shore Eye Care is giving a full day Optometric Symposium this Sunday May 15 in Huntington New York.  Our Smithtown eye care practice is having its third symposium that should be strongly educational and interesting for all.

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 al