LASIK Laser Eye Surgery in Long Island Tweet

Cataract surgery in our baby boomers has been very successful at our long island new york eye care practice in smithtown.  These patients seem to want more from their vision and have embraced premium lens implant choices like the crystalens, tecnis multifocal, rezoom, and restor.  Our baby boomers in long island want to be able to do the most activities without the burden of glasses and contact lenses.  Our board certified cataract surgeons have found this generation to be less tolerant of blur and glare caused by cataract.

Many patients ask us if we perform cataract surgery with laser at North Shore Eye Care in Smithtown New York.  Many of our Long Island patients think that the most modern way to perform cataract surgery would naturally be with laser.  Our board certified eye doctors and eye surgeons explain that laser is used for many things in eye care, but not cataract surgery itself.  A cataract is a clouding of the natural lens of the eye.  Using IV sedation and numbing eye drops, we use gentle computer controlled ultrasound called phacoemulsification to break up and remove the cloudy lens.  The capsule or skin of the grape that remains is used to hold the new intraocular implant or IOL.  Because the opening in the capsule we use to remove the defective lens is smaller than the implant (IOL), it remains stable for the rest of your life in most cases.  In our cataract treatment technique, we do not use stitches, an eye patch or needles around the eyes.  Our pa