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It is a condition occurring in the lens of the eye when proteins break down — usually due to age, physical trauma, or illness — and clump together. As these clumps grow and change, vision will become blurry; you may get double vision in one eye; your vision may turn yellow or become darker; or you may experience haziness like you are in fog. These protein clumps prevent light from passing through the eye as normal, so the images transmitted to the brain from the retina and optic nerve will be incomplete.
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Cataract surgery is an outpatient (A patient whose treatment does not require an overnight stay in a hospital or clinic) procedure that does not take very long.
Although healing can take several weeks and getting restored vision can take several months, the procedure itself is low-impact.
Your eye surgeon will make a small incision in your cornea, and then another small incision in the capsule containing the lens of your eye. Finally, they will break up the lens with a probe, either using lasers to soften the lens first or just using sound waves to break the lens up. The probe will remove the pieces of lens, and then your surgeon will replace the lens with an intraocular lens (IOL), an artificial lens made either of silicone or plastic. This lens will take the place of your damaged biological lens.
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