Cataract Care

What is a cataract?

A cataract occurs when the natural lens inside the eye becomes cloudy. This usually occurs as a result of the normal aging process.

Normally, light passes through a clear lens and is focused onto the retina. A cataract or cloudy lens blocks the passage of light through the eye, causing distorted or blurred vision.

The most common form of cataract is age-related, usually starting after age 50, but sometimes they can begin at a younger age. Even though a cataract begins to form in your 50's, vision problems may not occur until much later. (90% of people 70 years and older have cataracts.)

Symptoms of cataract include:

Once a cataract has formed, the most effective way to restore vision is to surgically remove the cloudy cataract and replace it with a clear plastic lens implant. These clear plastic lenses inserted at the time of cataract surgery are called intraocular lenses.

With recent advances in cataract surgery equipment and techniques, vision can be restored safer and faster, allowing patients to resume normal activity within hours after surgery. Using these state of the art techniques, cataract surgery has a success rate greater than 98%.

Our specialists treat all types of cataracts, including:

The treatment techniques and equipment that Milwaukee Eye Care surgeons use, including new methods of lens implantation and “No Stitch” surgery, are the most advanced in the field.