Eye Health Journal

A week-by-week guide to cataract surgery recovery: what is normal in the first days, the first week, weeks two to four, and beyond, plus the symptoms that should prompt a call to your eye team.

A plain-language guide to your cataract consultation: the tests and biometry involved, how your surgeon decides whether surgery is the right step, the lens options you will discuss, and the questions worth bringing.

Whether eyelid surgery is covered by OHIP depends on one thing: is heavy upper-lid skin blocking your vision? This guide explains the functional-versus-cosmetic line and how vision obstruction is measured.

How the light adjustable lens is fine-tuned with light treatments after cataract surgery, who makes a good candidate, what the adjustment and lock-in process involves, and its honest limits.

Monofocal, toric, multifocal, EDOF, and light adjustable lenses explained in plain language, with the honest trade-offs of each so you can choose the intraocular lens that fits how you live.

A plain-language guide to eyelid surgery (blepharoplasty): what the procedure removes and reshapes, upper versus lower lid work, functional versus cosmetic surgery, who it suits, and the honest limits of what it can do.

A plain-language guide to ReLACS (Laser-Assisted Cataract Surgery): which steps the femtosecond laser performs, how it compares with manual surgery, who benefits most, and what recovery involves.