Your exam, your surgeon referral, and your aftercare — in one familiar office.
A cataract is the gradual clouding of the eye’s natural lens: colors dull, night driving glares, and glasses stop helping. When it begins to interfere with your life, surgery replaces the cloudy lens with a clear implant. We manage everything around that surgery.
Our eye doctors in Los Angeles confirm the cataract, measure how it affects your vision, and help you decide when surgery is actually worth it — many early cataracts just need a prescription update.
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Referral and lens discussion
We refer you to a trusted cataract surgeon, send complete records, and explain the implant choices you will be offered, from standard lenses to astigmatism-correcting and multifocal options, in plain language.
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Post-operative care
After surgery, your follow-up visits are here: we check healing, pressure and vision on the surgeon’s schedule, manage your drops, and handle both eyes’ timing when the second eye is done.
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Final prescription
Once the eye settles, we finalize any glasses you still need and resume your routine care.
Also co-managed here
Surgical co-management goes beyond cataracts.
Pre- and post-operative care for LASIK and other refractive surgery
Corneal cross-linking for keratoconus
Corneal transplant aftercare and scleral lens refitting
No. Cataracts usually progress slowly. We monitor them and refer for surgery when vision interferes with your life.
A cataract surgeon we refer you to and co-manage with. Your pre- and post-operative care happens in our office.
Cataract care is medical eye care. We can often use medical insurance in lieu of vision insurance for exams; call 310-828-2010 to verify your plan.
Most people are completely healed 8 weeks after cataract surgery. You'll need someone to drive you home that day. For a few weeks you may need to avoid touching your eye, bending over and lifting heavy things, and you'll use eye drops that help it heal. Your follow-up checks happen here on the surgeon's schedule, and once the eye settles we finalize any glasses you still need. If you suddenly lose vision in the eye that had surgery, even if it comes back, call your surgeon right away, or 911 if you can't reach the surgeon; sudden loss in the other eye or both eyes is a 911 call. Call your eye doctor right away for any other loss of vision, pain that medicine doesn't relieve, a very red eye, or flashes of light or many small dark spots floating across your vision.
The two eyes are operated on at separate times, usually about a month apart, on dates your surgeon sets. In between, the checks on your first eye (healing, pressure and vision) happen here, and we coordinate the timing of the second eye with your surgeon.
Usually not. Numbing drops keep you from feeling the operation, which is almost painless. You're awake for it in most cases and may notice light or movement, and you can be given medicine to help you relax. Afterward the eye may feel a bit itchy, uncomfortable or sensitive to light; it should feel better after 1 or 2 days. Pain that won't go away even with pain medicine needs a call to your eye doctor right away.
