Unlike the surgeries in my nursing school days, today’s procedure is done on an outpatient basis. It involves small incisions, removal of the cloudy lens, and replacement with an artificial ...

[13] The advent of topical anesthesia made this procedure more practical. The early techniques involved removing the entire opaque lens in one piece using an incision that went halfway around the ...

Also: Laser surgery - reshapes the cornea surgically. Common for myopia but can be used for some hyperopia conditions. Replacement lens - implanting artificial lenses is a recent development ...