Cloudy vision
Cataract surgery replaces the clouded natural lens with an intraocular lens.
Which lens you receive shapes your life after surgery.
When the natural lens turns cloudy, light can no longer reach the retina clearly and your vision becomes hazy, as if in a fog.
Because the lens itself has changed, new glasses cannot make your vision sharp again.
Step 01
Local anesthesia is given with eye drops.
Step 02
Instruments are inserted through a tiny incision.
Step 03
The clouded lens is broken up with ultrasound and removed.
Step 04
The folded lens unfolds inside the capsular bag.
Cataract surgery replaces the removed natural lens with an intraocular lens (IOL).
The type of lens you receive shapes your life after surgery.
The most widely used
A lens designed to focus at a single distance.
It is usually set for distance vision, and glasses cover near vision.
Covers multiple distances
A lens designed with multiple focal points.
Choosing it requires a separate consultation and examination.
Cells grow on the capsule that holds the IOL and make it cloudy.
This is not the cataract coming back.
If your vision was clear for a while and slowly became blurry again
It can be treated with a YAG laser
The lens is clear, yet your vision still feels blurry.
It is not clouding — some distances are simply not covered by the implanted lens.
If certain distances have felt blurry ever since surgery
Consider the 1stQ AddOn® lens,
added in front of your existing lens
Learn about the 1stQ AddOn® lens,
added while your existing IOL stays in place.
The usual guideline is when declining vision makes daily life inconvenient, and your doctor makes the decision.
Usually one eye at a time with an interval in between, depending on your doctor’s judgment.
Vision brightens right after surgery, but final vision is usually confirmed after several weeks to a few months.
Most people return to daily life within a few days, though recovery speed varies.
The removed lens cannot develop a cataract again; posterior capsule opacification is a separate condition.
Yes — a lens can be added while your existing lens stays in place.
