Cataract Surgery

First Performed - 1747

Inventor - Jacques Daviel (French ophthalmologist)

Operation - Expanding on the primitive practice of "couching" (pushing natural lens out of view without removal), cataract surgery is the process of removing a clouded natural lens from the eye and replacing it with a clear artificial intraocular lens. It boasts above a 95% success rate, requires a brief recovery (few days to few weeks), and has become the most common surgery in America.

Average Patient Treated - Typically older adults whose vision has been significantly impaired by age-related cataracts, but it is also performed on younger individuals when cataracts result from diabetes, eye injury, long-term steroid use, genetic conditions, or other medical causes.

Example of eye before and after cataract surgery.

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