ARE THERE ANY RISKS OR COMPLICATIONS OF HAVING CATARACT SURGERY?
Davidson Eye Associates uses the most modern method of cataract removal and lens implantation available anywhere in the world. However all operations carry some form of risk. Risk for cataract surgery can vary depending upon many circumstances such as the type of cataract, co-existence of other diseases (i.e.diabetic eye disease), the state of one’s overall health, the presence of other eye diseases, and one’s own eye anatomy. While most of the time cataract surgery is considered a low risk operation, no surgery is completely risk free. Even with modern technology in an outpatient setting, cataract surgery should never be trivialized. The most serious complication with cataract surgery is visual loss. This is very uncommon but could result from an intraocular hemorrhage, damage to the optic nerve with a retrobulbar injection (injection of numbing medicine behind the eye–rarely used by Davidson Eye Associates), postoperative intraocular infection, retinal detachment, macular edema (swe
