The word Cataract can evoke undue concern and trepidation. Instead, Cataract Surgery should be viewed as an opportunity to regain lost vision and, in many cases, improve it. CataractPhiladelphia.com is committed to exploring the risks, benefits, alternatives and options for the most common and most successful surgical intervention of the modern era.

nanoFLEX™ DCB Near & Intermediate Vision

nanoFLEX™ is manufactured by Staar™ Surgical, a small high-tech company known for creating the field of small incision, sutureless cataract surgery.Their introduction of the first foldable intraocular lens in the early 1990’s was just one of their ground-breaking contributions to Ophthalmology.They developed the Staar Toric for the correction of astigmatism almost a decade before Alcon, the 800 lbs gorilla.Staar also developed the Visian™ ICL, an intraocular lens to compete with LASIK.

Last year Staar™ released an advanced aspheric intraocular lens.

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Meet Dr. James S. Lewis

Dr. LewisServing Bucks County, Montgomery County, Delaware Valley, Jenkintown, Abington, Northeast Philadelphia, Fort Washington, Elkins Park, Phoenixville, Conshohocken and Warminster. Member of the Wills Eye Surgical Network since 1996. Dr. James Lewis is a graduate of Princeton University and Thomas Jefferson Medical College where he won awards in Ophthalmology and Research. He served as chief resident during his third year at Duke University Eye Center where he was offered a faculty position. Instead he travelled to South Australia for subspecialty training in Corneal and Refractive Surgery. He returned in 1990 and became Director of Cornea and Anterior Segment Surgery at Hahnemann University, in Philadelphia. He also served as Corneal Consultant to the Pennsylvania College of Optometry.Philadelphia cataract surgeon speaks about the practice.

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3D Cataract Animations

    Dr. Lewis
  • Cataracts Description
  • Cataracts Symptons
  • Nuclear Cataracts
  • Cortical Cataracts
  • Subcapsular
  • Cataract Surgery (Phacoemulsification)
  • IOL Overview
  • Cataract Surgery (Microincision Phaco.)
  • Accomodative IOL
  • Multifocal IOL - Design 1
  • Multifocal IOL - Design 2
  • Toric IOL
  • YAG Laser

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Watch Cataract Surgery

Dr. Lewis explains the procedure. A cartoon filter is applied to make the visuals more palatable.
Cartoon Cataract

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Cataract Surgery Results

Greater than 99% of patients achieve driving vision following cataract surgery*

95% of cataract/aquaflow patients get off of one glaucoma eye drop**

50% of cataract/aquaflow patients do not require any glaucoma eye drops after surgery**

* this was the result of a retrospective study of 2500 consecutive cataract surgeries performed at the Pennsylvania College of Optometry between 2004 and 2007 with a visual potential (either pinhole or interferometry).
** retrospective study of 500 consecutive cataract/aquafow surgeries performed at t the Pennsylvania College of Optometry between 2003 and 2009 on at least one anti-glaucoma medication.