Cataract Surgery Complications Are Rarer Than You Think #health #facts

Added: 2026-05-23

[00:00:00]Myth number six, cataract surgery is risky  and you might go blind. Cataract surgery is one of the safest surgeries performed in modern  medicine. Period. The serious complication rates, so things like severe infection or  significant vision loss are well under 1%.

[00:00:24]And if you look at studies, some of them even  put it closer to one in a thousand or even lower with experienced surgeons and surgical  centers. But this doesn't mean it's riskfree.

[00:00:38]No surgery is. There are complications,  sometimes minor, sometimes major, but the minor ones are more common like temporary  pressure spikes, mild inflammation, and the posterior capsular opacification I mentioned  earlier. Those are usually easily managed.