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KENNETH MISELIS, MD: Cataracts are a cloudiness or haziness in the lens of the eye. They start naturally, as a part of aging for the vast majority of folks, and gradually get worse. They cut down contrast sensitivity. They cut down the ability to identify smaller detail, and they gradually get to the point where they just make any normal daily activities of visual need just impossible or difficult to do. So they just increase the work for the eye. They eventually will cause the vision to drop down to a level that will not pass a driver’s test or be able to read clearly and just provide for just problems in functioning normally throughout the course of a normal day.

ELYSSE: It used to be with cataracts, they only had one option: standard cataract surgery. And at that point, patients really wore glasses, they’d see good in one distance, maybe distance vision, and then they’d have to wear bifocals of the near and the intermediate. So there really wasn’t a whole lot of options back, you know, three or four years ago.

But doctor being certified to implant several different types of lenses that give patients this vision at all distances really gives them a lot more options.