Best Cataracts & IOL Info in Oak Brook, Hinsdale, St. Charles & La Grange

West Chicago Suburbs Cataract Surgery Specialists

The top West Chicago cataract surgery specialists offer the most advanced IOLs, including the AcrySof ReSTOR, ReZoom and Crystalens lenses. These IOLs can help patients regain a youthful vision that has been lost due to the development of cataracts and presbyopia. Cataracts cause a clouding of the lens that affects a very high percentage of the older population. Presbyopia is a condition that affects patients as they age. Once a person gets older than 40 years of age, he or she loses the ability to accommodate, or focus up close for reading or other near work. This condition is treated on a temporary basis with reading glasses or bifocal contact lenses.

Cataracts and Presbyopia

Cataract patients from Hinsdale, Oak Brook, St. Charles and La Grange can experience excellent near and distance vision at the hands of some of the best implant surgeons in the Chicago area. The surgical procedure can be used to remove the natural cloudy lens and replace it with an artificial lens or IOL. The premium IOLs can correct for near and distance vision, thereby treating cataracts and presbyopia simultaneously.

Clear Lens Extraction

Some patients who do not have cataracts, but want to have a permanent treatment for presbyopia, opt for implant surgery as well. This procedure is called "clear lens extraction" or CLE. Just as in cataract surgery, the procedure takes about 30 minutes or less. The best surgical procedure includes the "no needle, no stitch, no patch" technique. In this unique procedure, the cataract surgeon makes an incision at an angle, so that the natural pressure in the eye forces the incision closed after the surgery is completed. No stitch or patch is needed because the eye self-seals and heals on its own without the need to close the incision with a stitch or with a patch. Patients can often see clearly the next day.