WHAT ARE CATARACTS?

Think you might have cataracts? Trust your eyes to the experts at Eye Associates of Texas, who have decades of experience treating cataracts, and restoring and protecting the vision of patients living with cataracts. So what are cataracts?

Inside our eyes, we have a natural lens. The lens bends (refracts) light rays that come into the eye to help us see.

If you have a cataract, your lens has become cloudy, like the bottom lens in the illustration. It is like looking through a foggy or dusty car windshield. Things look blurry, hazy or less colorful with a cataract. Click here to read more: https://www.aao.org/eye-health/diseases/what-are-cataracts

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