State-of-the-art, bladeless surgery to restore your vision

Cataract surgery has several steps: making an incision in the cornea, breaking up the old, cloudy natural lens, removing the lens, and correctly placing the replacement lens.
Although modern cataract surgery is considered to be one of the safest and most successful procedures performed in medicine today, Laser Cataract Surgery leads to more precise and reliable correction for low levels of astigmatism and can help better center the lens implant being used to provide even better outcomes and make Advanced Cataract Surgery at the St. Louis Eye Institute in St. Louis even safer.

Advantages of Laser Cataract Surgery

St. Louis Cataract Surgeon, Dr. Fedyk uses the state-of-the-art Femtosecond laser for laser cataract surgery. It has been used for a decade in LASIK surgery and is now available for cataract surgery. According to Dr. Fedyk, “Laser cataract surgery is like robotic surgery on other parts of the body. We can do precise, minimally invasive cataract surgery with the laser. A large cataract can be broken into tiny pieces with the laser and removed through an ultra-small incision.”

How Laser Cataract Surgery Works

Cataract surgery has several steps: making an incision in the cornea, breaking up the old, cloudy natural lens, removing the lens, and correctly placing the replacement lens. Laser Cataract Surgery uses the Femtosecond laser to do many of the steps currently performed by hand but is now bladeless, all computer-controlled and programmed by Dr. Fedyk

Although modern cataract surgery is considered to be one of the safest and most successful procedures performed in medicine today, Laser Cataract Surgery improves the precision of many of the key surgical steps to provide even better outcomes and make Advanced Cataract Surgery at the St. Louis Eye Institute even safer.

During the laser procedure, small incisions are made in the cornea of the eye with the laser. The laser is also used to break up the natural lens of the eye so it may be removed. The lens is then removed through the incisions and the procedure continues as the new intraocular lens is placed in the eye.