• What holds the new lens in place after cataract surgery?

I am a 64 year old female. I want to know what holds the new lens in place after cataract surgery?

3 Answers

  • Ophthalmologist
  • Southfield, MI

Lenses are flexible and compress and expand into the space they are placed and then develop adhesions which maintain them.

  • Ophthalmologist
  • Beverly Hills, CA

The lenticular capsule and the zonules are holding the haptics of the IOL.
The whole complex is being held by ciliary muscles.

  • Ophthalmologist
  • Rochester Hills, Michigan

The lens goes into the same capsular sac the cataract was in and the sac wraps around it and scars down.

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