Cataract a diffuse opacification of a normal crystalline lens has may causes say 1 age-related 2 traumatic 3 metabolic causes 4 radiations 5 congenital 6 secondary to intraocular inflammation. Whatever be the cause the treatment is surgical there were some situations where some people advocated that some eye drops can cure cataract it was a false perception. The treatment till today is surgical cataract is the leading cause of preventable blindness now it depends on what type of cataract is a patient having.
If it is uncomplicated in most experienced surgeons it should have very good results. Now let me take you decades back when ophthalmic surgery was so to say very primitive done by Sushruta which in ancient times in India was a great name in ophthalmic surgery. No sterilization, no instruments, however, he used to have a roundish pointed needle which he used to pass via limbus of…
