Very often when one is diagnosed as having a cataract, the next question is “How long can I wait before getting this procedure done?” OR “Doctor is mine an emergency situation? Do I need to get this done immediately?”

Most cataract surgeries and procedures are elective ones. In that they can be planned and conducted when it’s convenient for the patient and doctor. In rare cases , when one waits too long, the cataract   gets over ripe / matured and can theoretically “burst” / leak proteins into the eye causing adverse reactions like inflammation and high eye pressure.

Those hyper mature cataracts are the situations when the cataract needs to be done immediately.

In majority of cases, the deciding factor of the right time to get the surgery done is when the patient feels his visual activities are being hampered in any way. Due to the decreased vision, glare or visual disturbances caused by the cataract,