Cataract Surgery & Refractive Lens Surgery A Question and Answer Book with Uday Devgan, MD, FACS
Choose a Question from the List Below... 01. What are the reasons to operate on the lens? 02. How does the eye focus light? 03. What are common focusing/refractive problems? 04. What's the most common focusing problem? 05. How does the lens of the eye change with age? 06. When do you replace the lens of the eye? 07. What's the difference between refractive lens surgery and cataract surgery? 08. What focusing conditions does Refractive Lens Surgery correct? 09. Do I want Refractive Lens Surgery or LASIK? 10. What exactly is a cataract? 11. What are the types of cataracts? 12. What are the symptoms of cataracts? 13. Who gets cataracts? 14. How are cataracts diagnosed and treated? 15. At what point do I need cataract surgery? 16. How is cataract surgery performed? 17. So why don't all surgeons perform this Advanced Clear-Corneal method? 18. How is my surgical technique better? 19. What about "The Laser"? 20. What about waiting until the cataract is 'ripe'? 21. What about using eye drops, medications, or vitamins to treat cataracts? 22. Why do I need this man-made lens implanted? 23. What are the two basic types of lens implants? 24. What decisions do I need to make for cataract / refractive lens surgery? 25. Will my medical insurance cover the cost of cataract surgery? 26. Will my insurance medical insurance cover the cost of astigmatism treatment? 27. Will my medical insurance cover the cost of the multi-focal lens implant? 28. Which lens will you put in my eye? 29. How do you calculate what power lens to use? 30. Will I need glasses after the cataract surgery? 31. Can I do 'Mono-Vision' like I did with my contact lenses? 32. What about pre-existing eye conditions? 33. How successful is cataract/lens surgery? 34. What is the patient's role after the surgery? 35. How will my vision be better after the surgery? 36. What if I don't see perfectly after the surgery? 37. How long does cataract surgery take? 38. Does the surgery hurt? 39. Do I need to have an eye patch after surgery? 40. Where do you perform the surgery? 41. Can you re-do the cataract surgery that another doctor performed? 42. Can we do surgery on both eyes the same day? 43. What are my restrictions after the surgery? 44. Will the cataract ever come back? 45. Will my medical problems prevent me from having surgery? 46. What are your credentials and how many surgeries do you do? 47. Do you teach surgery to other surgeons? 48. Do you work with my current eye doctor? 49. Where can I find out more about you? 50. What other surgeries do you perform? 51. What if I have other questions? 52. What is my next step? 53. A picture is worth a thousand words. 54. What are the types of premium lens implants? List of important questions that Dr. Devgan will ask me at my pre-op consultation. Cataract Removal Multi-focal Lenses (ReZoom / ReSTOR) The Visian ICL Crystalens Glossary of Eye Terms Table of Contents
Cataract Removal Multi-focal Lenses (ReZoom / ReSTOR) Accomodating Lens (Crystalens) The Visian ICL