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What are the treatment options for my cataracts?
Here Dr Ahmed Alnahrawy discusses treatment options for cataracts.
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How can we treat it? It's only treatable by surgery. There are so many companies and so many laboratories that have tried to develop some drugs that reverse the process but so far these have been very unsuccessful and the only approved method is actually by the cataract surgery. This is a picture about a patient who's having the surgery. So the surgeon is sitting to the side of the patient and the eye is inside it is there because we usually get a question will the eyes be popped out or taken out of my skull to do the surgery and the answer is definitely no nothing like that happens really it's very simple the eye sits very quietly where it is the eye is numbed by injection and then the surgery proceeds
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