“Cataract surgery is the only treatment for cataracts, which is a very common condition causing clouding of the natural lens of the eye. What we do during the surgery is remove the lens, the natural lens of the eye, through a very small, two-millimeter incision and replace it with a brand new artificial lens that sits in the same physiological location where the previous lens used to be. This surgery is efficient and it restores the vision to what it was prior to the onset of the cataract. Now, there have been recent advancements in the cataract surgery, specifically laser assisted cataract surgery. During this process, we replace certain steps performed by microsurgical instruments with a laser that makes the surgery even more efficient and decreases surgical time. Recently, we’ve also had an expansion of the intraocular implants, which is the lens that we put inside the eye. The lenses that we now offer have a wide range of prescriptions that they are able to correct, ranging from astigmatism as well as what we call extended depth of focus lenses that offer correction of the wide range of refractive errors, including presbyopia.”
Maria Basile, MD, is a board-certified ophthalmologist specializing in glaucoma at Mount Sinai Doctors, seeing patients Monday-Friday. She specializes in small incision cataract surgery, as well as medical, laser, and surgical treatment of glaucoma, including the latest in micro-invasive glaucoma surgery. Dr. Basile is fluent in Spanish and Russian. Mount Sinai Doctors is an organization of clinical relationships and multi-specialty services that expand the Mount Sinai Health System’s footprint beyond the seven main hospital campuses into the greater New York City area.