Curing Blindness Can Only Take 5 Minutes, Thanks to This Revolutionary Method
A dedicated team of eye doctors are on a mission to rid the world of preventable blindness, one incision at a time. How Eyes Evolved to See the World Differently ...
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Eyes are incredible and complex creations. To see, light is focused by the cornea, passes through a clear lens and is encoded by the retina, which sends electrical impulses to the brain. But if you have a cataract, proteins on the lens start to cloud together, creating blurry vision. For over 20 million people, this is how they see the world. Cataracts are the leading cause of blindness globally. “Blindness affects your life expectancy. You become a hangout, you become an appendage for the family. And then you become an economic burden.” But thanks to a revolutionary surgical method, sight can be restored in just under five minutes. The small incision surgery is generally a very cost effective, and simple manual technique to remove cataract and still give the patient comparable...
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Eyes are incredible and complex creations. To see, light is focused by the cornea, passes through a clear lens and is encoded by the retina, which sends electrical impulses to the brain. But if you have a cataract, proteins on the lens start to cloud together, creating blurry vision. For over 20 million people, this is how they see the world. Cataracts are the leading cause of blindness globally. “Blindness affects your life expectancy. You become a hangout, you become an appendage for the family. And then you become an economic burden.” But thanks to a revolutionary surgical method, sight can be restored in just under five minutes. The small incision surgery is generally a very cost effective, and simple manual technique to remove cataract and still give the patient comparable...
