Cataract surgery is one of the commonest eye surgeries performed by ophthalmologists. All around the world and it is also one of the successful surgeries performed for rendering treatable ocular blindness. We know now a lot of recent advances have occurred in ophthalmology.
So are the recent advances in cataract surgery before that let go past and see what was done for cataract a past there was no at the time of Sushruta in India. There were couches these ones would call street surgeons who would dislocate cataracts lenses with a needle pushed at limbus. By this pupillary area would become clear and patient would see for some time and was happy before complications would arise Then came removal of cataracts lenses by forceps by the name of arrugas here one had to make 180 degrees corneo-scleral section by VG knife and intra or extracapsular extraction was done In young people as…