Cataracts

What’s the recovery after lens replacement surgery?

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Vaughan Tanner, a Consultant Ophthalmic Surgeons at Sapphire Eye Care, explains what you might need to do, or not do, for the first week after your lens replacement surgery.

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Vaughan Tanner, a Consultant Ophthalmic Surgeons at Sapphire Eye Care, explains what you might need to do, or not do, for the first week after your lens replacement surgery.

• Transcript

  Recovery from refractive lens exchange and cataract surgery are very similar and very quick in the majority of patients. Most people would be returning to normal activities after a week. I normally tell my patients that they shouldn’t drive for a week and most of them delight in telling me that in fact they were back in action before that.