Cataract is an eye disorder that generally develops because of aging. In this disorder, clouding of lens occurs which leads to blurred vision. The disease develops slowly and almost 9 in 10 elderly people have to undergo cataract surgery at some point of time in their life.
Cataract reveals following symptoms in germinating stages:
If the above mentioned symptoms are revealed to you consistently for over few days, better book your appointment with an ophthalmologist as soon as possible. Cataract if not treated on time can cause blindness. Hence, it is better to examine your eye from ophthalmologist than to repent later.
Cataracts can be of different types - Nuclear cataract and Congenital cataract.
Nuclear cataract: Nuclear cataract is one of the most commonly occurring type of cataract in which color of iris may change from brown to yellow.
Congenital cataracts: Congenital cataract occurs since birth or may develop in baby's first year.
Surgery is the only remedy for cataract. Now-a-days, new techniques have been developed to keep the surgery as minimally invasive as possible. Multifocal cataract surgery is one of the type which is bit complex in nature. In this type of surgery, defected eye lens is replaced by intraocular multifocal lens (synthetic multifocal lens). Winning advantage of multifocal lens implant is that patient is able to view near, distant and intermediate objects without the need of glasses.
Cost of multifocal surgery is more than unifocal surgery because of use of advanced lens and complexity involved in surgical procedure. The procedure is quite safe.