Batıgöz Health Group, Eye Health and Diseases Specialist Op. Dr. Serkan Biliş stated that he did not need the needle, which is the biggest fear of the patients, in cataract surgeries, and that he performed the laser method, and heralded that the surgeries are now performed without needles, stitches and painless.
Batıgöz Health Group, Eye Health and Diseases Specialist Op. Dr. Serkan Biliş answered our questions about the Femtosecond Laser Phaco Method used in cataract and cataract surgeries. Stating that they perform cataract surgeries without the need for needles, which is the biggest fear of patients, Op. Dr. Biliş heralded that the surgeries are now performed without needles, stitches and painless. Kiss. Dr. Biliş said, “If you do not have any other ailments other than cataracts, your dependence on glasses, which reduces vision, can be greatly reduced or completely eliminated thanks to multifocal lenses.”
-Can you explain cataract in one sentence?
Cataract is a disorder that results in the loss of transparency of the lens in our eye, resulting in decreased vision.
-What are the causes of cataract?
Cataracts occur 90 percent of the time due to age. However, in systemic diseases such as trauma and diabetes, cataract may develop due to long-term use of cortisone.
-What are the symptoms of cataract?
Hazy and low vision is the most important symptom. Decreased color quality is also an important symptom of cataract. The increase in light discomfort at night, the deterioration of distance vision due to false myopia in some types of cataracts, the sudden improvement of near vision in contrast to distance vision, and the deterioration of near vision in a short time can be counted as the most prominent symptoms of cataracts.
How is cataract treated?
The only treatment for cataract is surgery. It is not possible to treat with drugs, and no contribution of drugs to the prevention or delay of cataracts has been determined.
-When should I have surgery?
When blurred vision starts to affect our daily lives, especially those who drive should not delay the surgery at all.
Especially in new surgical methods, removing the cataract before it hardens increases the success of the surgery. Because the operations of very advanced cataracts are more difficult and the recovery period can be longer.
How are surgeries done?
Cataract surgeries are treatments that can be performed without the need for hospitalization. One hour before the operation, eye drops are dripped into the eye and the pupils are enlarged. Instead of numbing the eye, which is the biggest fear of many patients, by using drop anesthesia, it both increases the comfort of the patients and minimizes their fears. There is usually no need for stitches after surgery. In other words, we can say that cataract surgery is a needle-free, suture-free and painless surgery.
What benefit does the use of laser in cataract surgery provide to the patient?
In today’s cataract surgery, after entering the eye through a small incision using the phacoemulsification method, the cataract is sucked in small pieces with ultrasound energy and taken out. There are many stages of phaco surgery. Femtosecond Laser Technology, which has been increasing in recent years, especially in eyeglass removal surgery, is frequently used and has proven its success, has also entered the service of patients in cataract surgery. We started to use this technology in our center simultaneously with the world.
Thanks to the femtosecond laser technology, the most important stages of phaco surgery are performed in a completely computer-controlled manner, without human touch. Therefore, the healing process is shortened and the possibility of complications can be minimized.
Another advantage of Femtosecond Laser Phaco Surgery is that the slot where multifocal (multifocal) and toric (stigmatism correcting) lenses, which we call specialty lenses, can be prepared in an extremely smooth and micron level security; so that the visual quality can be increased much better.
In which phases does the Femtosecond Laser Phaco Method help the surgeon?
The important stages of cataract surgery with phaco,
-Creation of the corneal incision with a laser beam without using a knife
-Making the opening (capsulorhexis) created in the anterior membrane of the lens with the cataract in the desired dimensions
– Separation of the cataract lens with the help of laser energy
Transactions are carried out completely privately and securely; It helps the surgeon by making the surgery safer and to the same high standard.
-Can you tell us about these multifocal and toric lenses?
With the standard single focus lenses used in cataract surgery, you should use glasses to see far and/or near after the surgery. However, if a multifocal lens is used (multifocal), if you do not have any other ailment other than cataract that reduces vision, your dependence on glasses may be greatly reduced or completely eliminated.
As a result of the developments in lens technology in recent years; The treatment of this disease, which seriously impairs the quality of vision, can now be done in our patients with astigmatism, thanks to astigmatic lenses.
-How long is the recovery period after surgery?
The time it takes for our patients to reach their normal vision after the operation varies depending on the difficulty of the operation and the hardness of the cataract, but a good vision point can be reached within 1 week to 15 days. A patient who came at the right time and had his surgery begins to feel the improvement in his vision even in 1-2 days.
Source: (BYZHA) – Beyaz News Agency
