What is the most advanced treatment for cataracts?

Surgery is currently the most effective treatment for cataracts. There are three main types of cataract surgery: intracapsular cataract extraction, extracapsular cataract extraction, and cataract ultrasonic emulsification. So, which cataract surgery is the best? According to experts, cataract ultrasonic emulsification is the most advanced cataract treatment in the world. The surgery is characterized by small incision, fast speed, no pain, good effect and fast recovery. Cataract removal by ultrasonic emulsification involves the use of an emulsifying needle with ultrasonic vibration function, which is inserted into the eye through a very small incision. The emulsifying needle's regular high-frequency vibration breaks up the cataract inside the eye, and then sucks it out. This process can be done in a small incision of 2.8mm. The cataract is suctioned out by ultrasonic emulsification and then implanted with an IOL. Ultrasonic cataract extraction has advantages that are unmatched by other surgical procedures. The advantages of ultrasonic cataract extraction include the following three points: 1. Because the operation is performed under a small closed incision, the intraocular pressure fluctuation is small, and thus the risk of hemorrhage and dislodgement of ocular contents is greatly reduced. 2. 2、The use of small tunnel-type incision has good tensile strength and self-closure, the patient can move early after surgery, and most of the patients can be operated without hospitalization. 3、This surgical incision has very little effect on the corneal morphology and produces very little astigmatism after surgery, thus improving the visual outcome after surgery. In fact, the indications for cataract ultrasonic emulsion extraction are very wide, and all types of cataracts that are suitable for sight restoration surgery are suitable for cataract ultrasonic emulsion extraction, including senile cataracts, diabetic cataracts, concurrent cataracts, congenital cataracts, traumatic cataracts and so on (except for the very few over-matured cataracts with over-rigid nuclei). Technically speaking, the maturity stage and any period before it is suitable for cataract ultrasonic emulsification surgery, which can show the superiority of ultrasonic emulsification surgery more than the earlier cataracts.