Vitectomy
Can you remove the floaters in my vision?
Duration 0:42
Professor Andrew Luff, Ophthalmic Surgeon and Founding Consultant, explains how floaters can be removed in a routine and safe procedure that prevents them from returning afterwards. Floaters, or symptomatic vitreous opacity, don’t cause damage to your eye but can cause visual disturbances and difficulty seeing clearly under some conditions.
Professor Andrew Luff, Ophthalmic Surgeon and Founding Consultant, explains how floaters can be removed in a routine and safe procedure that prevents them from returning afterwards. Floaters, or symptomatic vitreous opacity, don’t cause damage to your eye but can cause visual disturbances and difficulty seeing clearly under some conditions.
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Floaters are removed by a procedure known as vitrectomy. Literally removal of the vitreous gel from within the eye, and this was first experimented with about 70 years ago, but now it’s become a very routine and safe procedure. This is done under a local anaesthetic through three very tiny incisions, and in the space of a few minutes, the floaters, the opacity, the vitreous gel is replaced with clear, salty water, and thereafter, your eye continues to make just salty water. The floaters can never reform.
