Laser Cataract Surgery in Manhattan & Brooklyn NY

After your brief surgery, we’ll place an eye patch on your treated eye. We provide you with a protective shield to wear when sleeping for the next several days. Your vision will be blurry at first, but this rapidly improves in just a day or two. Your eye may itch somewhat, but you cannot touch the area at all. You also need to be cognizant of avoiding actions that increase blood pressure to your face. Things such as heavy lifting, bending over, and other actions that move blood to your face are out. We provide you with eye drops that prevent inflammation and infection. They also control the pressure inside your eye when healing. Full healing can take up to two months, but you can return to normal activity in just a few days. You may or may not require glasses for some tasks after your surgery. This depends on the replacement intraocular lens you selected. If your other eye also has a cataract, we usually schedule the second surgery one to two months after the first.

Lasers have three jobs in our cataract procedures. After the laser software creates a 3D image of your eye, we map the incision location with incredible accuracy. Then we use the femtosecond laser to create the incision in the cornea, removing the anterior capsule of the lens. This gains access to the cataract-clouded lens. Now the laser is used to make a series of cuts in the cataract-clouded lens. This laser scoring of the lens reduces the amount of ultrasound energy we need to use to break up the lens before suctioning it out. The third possible use of the laser is if you have astigmatism. We can use the laser to create peripheral corneal incisions. These reduce astigmatism. By using the laser for the entry incision, scoring the cataract, and making peripheral incisions, we never need to use a surgical blade.

These are painless, remarkably short procedures with Dr. Giyaur and our team. When you arrive for your surgery, we first give you a mild sedative to help you relax. After that sedative has taken effect, we place anesthetic drops in your eye to keep you from feeling anything. In most people the combination of the sedative and the numbing eye drops makes it hard for them to remember the procedure at all, despite the fact that they were awake the entire time.

In can seem impossible, but laser cataract surgery at New York Laser Vision takes just 30 minutes. This includes the time for sedation and placing drops in your eyes. The actual surgery takes just 10-15 minutes.

Complications after cataract surgery are very rare, and most of them can be successfully treated. These are the risks: Inflammation, Infection, Bleeding, Swelling, Drooping eyelid, Dislocation of the IOL, Retinal detachment, Glaucoma and Loss of vision.