Cataract is clouding of the natural lens, which initially leads to blurring of vision and later to blindness. The treatment is surgical removal of the cloudy lens and replacing it with a plastic lens called the intraocular lens. The cataract is removed through a very small incision using a process called phacoemulsification. A sophisticated machine is used to break up the cataract into extremely small pieces using ultrasonic power. The pieces are then washed out of the eye. The intraocular lens is folded and inserted through the small incision. It unfolds once it is in the eye.

The extremely small (2.2mm) incision allows the surgery to be completed without sutures and very fast recovery. The power of glasses required also is now very small.

The latest instrument used to calculate the power of intraocular lens to be implanted in your eye is the IOL master from Zeiss Germany. The accuracy of calculations is useful to get the least amount of glasses after surgery.

We have two highly sophisticated phacoemulsification Centurion and Infinity machines from (Alcon, USA.) The use of advanced technology in these machines has increased the safety of cataract surgery tremendously.

For the very latest in cataract surgery, blade free femto laser cataract surgery see the femtosecond laser section .