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	Cataract Treatment Until recently cataract treatment has almost exclusively been treated by surgery. Cataract surgery improves vision in up to 95% of cases and saves millions of people each year from blindness. Quality of life is often greatly improved through successful cataract treatment. Surgery is carried out while you are awake with local anaesthetic and involves the removal of the cloudy lens. This is not done with a laser, but by a tiny probe that goes into the eye and dissolves the lens using very fast sound waves (ultrasound). This process is known as phacoemulsification. Usually a tiny plastic lens is put in to the place where the natural lens was at the same procedure. The whole process is very quick, often taking only 15-20 minutes.

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