Cataract Surgery Cataracts are progressive and initially changing your glasses prescription might keep your vision clear for a period of time. However, cataracts will progress and at some point will start to negatively affect your daily life. Your quality of vision will decrease and activities such as driving will become limited or restricted by the vision loss caused by cataracts. This is when you need to consider cataract surgery. Cataract surgery is the only way to treat cataracts and stop the progressive loss of vision. Your ophthalmologist will recommend removing a cataract when it keeps you from doing things you want or need to do. Cataract surgery is a procedure to remove the lens of your eye and, in most cases, replace it with an artificial lens. That lens is called an intraocular lens (IOL). Your ophthalmologist will talk with you about IOLs and how
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