A cataract is clouding of the eye's natural lens. These pages cover the surgery that replaces it and the quick laser sometimes needed afterward.
Cataract Surgery
What a cataract is, when surgery makes sense, lens implant choices, the day of surgery and the four-week recovery, and what is different if you also have glaucoma.
YAG Capsulotomy
YAG laser capsulotomy: a quick office laser that clears the cloudy capsule that can form behind a lens implant after cataract surgery. With an animation of what the laser does and how vision changes, what the visit is like, and what to expect afterward.