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Cataracts

Evergreen Eye Center is a recognized center-of-excellence in cataract surgery. We have a dedicated cataract surgical facility staffed with caring professionals who are dedicated to anticipating your needs and providing a calm, low-stress surgical experience. Please contact us today at (800) 340-3595 to arrange your private cataract evaluation.

What Are Cataracts?
Age-Related Cloudy Vision

The term "cataract" refers to the eye's lens becoming clouded as a normal part of the aging process. This condition occurs because over time, natural proteins in the eye's structure clump together, interfering with the normal vision process and causing vision to become cloudy or hazy. Unfortunately, cataracts affect almost everyone in their 60's or beyond.

Signs that you may be affected by a cataract include poor night vision, dulled color vision, haziness, sensitivity to light, or halos around objects. However, some cataracts do not cause any symptoms until they are in their advanced stages, which is why the Eye M.D.s at Evergreen Eye Center recommend regular vision checkups.

Keeping Your Vision for Years to Come - Cataract Treatment Options

In their earliest stages, cataracts can be managed with stronger glasses or bifocals, magnification devices, and improved lighting during everyday tasks. For those whose cataracts have progressed beyond these early stages, however, there are a number of different treatment options. You may wish to consider surgery when your vision becomes moderately to severely impaired, or your vision changes are significant enough to affect your daily life.

Surgery to remove the clouded lenses is the only way to permanently treat cataracts and halt the decline in vision. New methods and materials have made cataract surgery one of the most common and effective surgical procedures in recent years. During the first phase of cataract treatment, your eye surgeon will remove the clouded portion of the lens. In the second phase, your surgeon will provide you with another way to maintain your vision, called implantable lenses or intraocular lenses (IOLs). IOLs are small, thin, plastic corrective lenses that are implanted in the eye, allowing you to see and focus clearly again.