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Laser Cataracts Cure

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    See how laser technology is giving patients with cataracts a new look on life

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I was saying to my golfing friends with the ball go.

That death could see that that far.

Eighty year old Mike music -- has been diagnosed with a cataract in both eyes.

And as compromising his vision.

Driving at night you -- -- -- -- kind of a halo effect and I would say to my wife now agent Eden -- Maybe you should drive at night I missed the music here -- Cataracts affect more than twenty million Americans are cataract.

Is -- clouding a person's natural -- aside -- lie.

And in the -- becomes cloudy the window into the -- becomes plotting the patient loses vision when the cataract becomes.

Large.

Patients can't do the things they want to do.

It is estimated that by the year 22 when he.

As baby boomers -- over thirty million we'll have this condition if tariffs on treated you can almost lose all of your vision.

But the good news is once you have them remove your version comes back so it's not an irreversible loss of vision.

It can be treated with -- answer this standard surgery requires ophthalmologists.

To cut into the -- with the blade -- then remove the affected lands within ultrasound device.

Now I doctors have another more efficient surgical option.

We're doing laser cataract surgery.

And it's like seeing the future today.

-- cataract surgery.

Involves using a special device -- found -- second laser.

That makes -- and TI it opens up the lens and divide the land and -- small squadrons so it takes care of the major steps of cataract surgery which would.

Before performed manually.

And now it's all performed with the precision of a laser.

Doctor Don -- -- says using a laser is more accurate and quicker.

Most patients can expect the faster recovery and better vision might have Lazard cataract surgery this July.

And says he is now -- better that -- ever.

At this point today I'm torn each morning and both -- No glasses I feel much more confident minority isn't particularly the driving was no glare that vision is excellent.

I'm Dr.

Manny Fox News.

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