Patient Testimonials
| "Hello, my name is Robert Rajotte. I'm a very satisfied customer ?? and I mean that; I'm not just saying that, or I'm not paid to say that ? of Dr. Richardson's. He did a wonderful job on my eye. Let me tell you a little story. I've had glasses probably for the last eight, nine, ten years, and my optometrist discovered I had high apostolic pressure in my right eye. He suggested that I went to the doctor. Of course, being a guy I ignored it for a couple of years. It spiked a little higher, and finally I went to my mother's doctor, which happens to be Dr. Richardson. And my mother also, of course, is happy with his services.But a long story short. We had laser surgery, brought the pressures down, got a handle on that. I think it's called "argon lipoplasty laser surgery, " [Argon laser trabeculoplasty] and it was painless. It was a five minute procedure, and my pressures are perfect. Well, I had a secondary problem. My right eye needed a much greater correction than my left, which I believe is called "anisometropia." I've learned a lot, as you can see also, through this process.Anyway, with some consultations with Dr. Richardson, he suggested I probably could use an intraocular lens implant, I believe is the term, and I ended up with a [toric] lens, which also corrected my [astigmatism]. Long story short, the lens was implanted and everything went well.Three months after surgery, you go get your other glasses. Three or four months, I can't remember the exact amount. But, anyway, my optometrist, Dr. Grant Paul, of Eye Care One in San Dimas on Lone Hill, has my charts from day one when I started getting glasses. He looked at the correction I had after Dr. Richardson had done, and he stopped. He paused, and he was baffled. He goes ? seriously ? he goes, "This guy's good." He said it three times. "This guy's good."He goes, "You have almost no astigmatism. We'll call it zero. You're barely near?sighted, " and I have almost no correction. He goes, "Your eye is like perfect, and your pressures are perfect." Testimony to Dr. Richardson's skill and education, and I recommend him to anybody. Come here.I was satisfied, and I'm sure you will be. He's professional. He's got the steadiest hands I've ever seen in a human, and when he touches your eye, it's unbelievable. He's a gifted surgeon, and I recommend you come. Robert Rajotte ? pleased customer." - Robert Rajotte |
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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.
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