Cataract Surgery
Restore clear, vibrant vision with fellowship-trained cataract & refractive surgeon Medi Eslani, MD, FAAO, serving Chula Vista, National City, Escondido, and El Centro.
Understanding Cataracts
One of the most common and successful procedures in medicine, performed by a surgeon who takes the time to get it right for you.
A cataract is a natural clouding of the eye's lens that develops gradually with age. Vision becomes blurry, dim, or yellowed, often with glare and halos. During surgery, the clouded lens is gently removed and replaced with a clear artificial lens (an IOL), restoring clarity for the vast majority of patients.
Advanced Technology Lenses
Your lens choice shapes your vision for life. Dr. Eslani will match the right lens to your eyes and lifestyle.
Your eye works like a camera. A camera can focus on things far away, things across the room, things at arm's length, and things up close. Your eye needs to do all four. We use our eyes at these four distances every day.
When you were young, the lens inside your eye changed shape on its own to focus near and far. It worked like a camera that autofocuses by itself. As we get older we lose that ability. That is why most people past fifty need reading glasses, bifocals, or progressive lenses just to get through the day.
This is a dependable lens option and is typically covered by insurance. However, after surgery, you should expect to need glasses for all four zones of vision: distance, intermediate, near, and fine detailed tasks.
It corrects astigmatism to provide sharper distance vision. This option is mainly designed to improve one zone of vision, usually distance, making you less dependent on glasses for far-away tasks like driving or watching TV.
It provides a smooth range of vision from distance to intermediate, which is excellent for driving and using screens. It gives you three useful zones of vision, less dependent on glasses. However, you may still need reading glasses for very small print or in dim lighting.
It provides vision at distance, intermediate, and near, giving you the most freedom from glasses. It is designed to help you function across all four zones of vision, including far distance, computer range, reading range, and closer near tasks, making you much less dependent on glasses.
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