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"My first impression was, when I was told that you're in a penthouse office suite, "Oh, boy! This is really going to be first-class." It turned out to be that. Then, when I met Dr. Richardson, I thought, "Wow! What a handsome, good-looking doctor I have." Everyone was very warm and friendly and welcomed me. I felt very comfortable being here.

I tried to read as much as I could about cataract surgery and familiarize myself as to what will be happening. I subscribed to a lot of health publications. I read several articles about it. So I really felt like I'm in good hands.

When the doctor asked me what my expectations were after the surgery, I just said "I expected to see a lot of improvement in my sight and that I hoped that I would be very pleased and excited." So my spontaneous response, when the bandages and all were taken off, was when I looked in the mirror and could see the letters quite well, and I said, "Wow! I feel like the doctor put HD in my eyes, just like my new TV set that my son picked for me." I realized the difference between the old TV and the new HD TV I got. So that really told me that I did feel the difference and enjoyed having the improvement in my eyes.

During the surgery on the first eye, and later I had surgery on the second eye, I did ask the doctor if he could increase the anesthetics on the second experience, because I said "I felt every little move that was made on the first eye," and when I told myself, "Oh, the old lens is coming out now, and the new lens is going in now." I knew exactly what was happening, and I said, "I would rather not know these things." He accommodated me, and on the second eye, I just didn't feel any of those activities going on in my eye, and I was much more comfortable with that.

So I felt like [Dr. Richardson] listened to me and accommodated me and tried to make me as comfortable as possible. I just was happy with, as I said, every step of the way. From the day I walked in the office, and all the appointments I had and meeting the rest of the staff and the people behind the receptionist counter and such and those who helped me in preparing for each examination, I just felt like this is a first-class place.

Then, even when I expressed concern about how I was going to be billed, about the cost, and that my Medicare and supplemental insurance would accommodate the invoices, and I never had to be concerned after that. Everything was handled in such a professional way, and I had no negative feelings that I can remember. So I would recommend your services to anyone who needs to go through the same kind of cataract procedures I had. Thank you! "

-Kiyoko Komai

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Eye Anatomy: How We See
• The human eye consists of a series of lenses that refract (bend) light rays to focus light images on the retina. These images are then transferred via the optic nerve to the brain where we “see” them.
• The two primary focusing lenses of the eye are the cornea (outside lens of the eye) and the natural crystalline lens (inside lens of the eye).

Cataracts
• A cataract occurs, usually gradually, as the natural lens of the eye becomes clouded or discolored.
• This clouding of the natural lens of the eye causes light entering the eye to scatter prior to reaching the retina. This causes hazy or blurred vision (See image at right).
• If left untreated, cataracts can cause blindness.
• The only treatment for cataracts is removal of the clouded natural lens of the eye and replacing the natural lens with an artificial intraocular lens implant (IOL).
• According to the Eye Surgery Education Council, “About 60 percent of those older than 60 years and 70 percent of those older than 75 years have cataracts.”
• As the Eye Disease Prevalence Research Group reported in Archives of Ophthalmology, an estimated 20.5 million Americans older than age 40 have a cataract in either eye and the total number of persons who have a cataract is estimated to rise to 30.1 million by 2020.2
•Approximately 2.7 million cataract surgery procedures are performed in the United States – 14 million worldwide3 – each year to restore vision loss due to cataracts making it, according to the Eye Surgery Education Council, the most commonly performed surgical procedure.