About one in six Americans age 40 and older will get a cataract. By age 80, more than half will have a cataract. Because everyone is different, some people may not notice a large change in their eyesight. Others will find it a challenge to enjoy even the simplest tasks and may find it harder and harder to stay independent.
A cataract is when your eye’s natural lens becomes cloudy. The natural lens bends light rays that come into the eye to help us see. As we age, proteins in the lens clump together and cloud the lens. As a result, light is unable to pass through this now cloudy lens. This makes your vision look cloudy, hazy, or less colorful.
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Worldwide, cataract surgery is the most common surgery performed, and the one with the highest success rate-over 98%! It has even been proven in a large scientific study that cataract surgery can increase your life span by lowering the risk of falling and sustaining a hip fracture! Dr. Shechter has performed more than 9,000 cases in her career.
At Phoenixville Eye Care Specialists, we pride ourselves in offering state-of-the-art technology in a traditional, highly personalized setting. Surgery is performed as an outpatient at one of our two facilities, Surgery Center at Limerick and the award-winning Physicians Care Surgical Hospital. Dr. Shechter is proud to be a founding physician of PCSH. Typical surgeries are painless and take about 15 minutes under mild anesthesia. Patients are back home in no more than a few hours and recovery is easy with minimal restrictions. Usually no preoperative lab work or testing is needed.
With today’s techniques, a majority of patients will find that they will have reduced need for glasses and often will only need reading glasses afterward. Patients with glaucoma are usually good candidates for surgery and studies have shown that patients often require less or no glaucoma medication after their cataract surgery.
Dr. Shechter uses the latest, state-of-the-art implants and equipment at both facilities and work with highly skilled OR staff and anesthetists. The doctors typically do all the postoperative care themselves but are happy to work with a patient’s own referring optometrist. Our surgical coordinator, Bonnie Ely x 134, is available to answer your questions at any time.
