I'm having cataract surgery and will have to put a lens. Is it for life?

In a cataract operation, the implantation of a lens inside the eye is definitive, and ophthalmologist Filomena Ribeiro explains that it is a simple process:

Yes, cataract surgery is a surgery that stays for life, so once the cataract is operated on, it does not come back, and the lens that is implanted is a biocompatible lens that will stay for the rest of your life.

Sometimes it's necessary to have a laser to last the transparency of the capsule, which is the structure where the lens will be supported, but it's really a surgery that stays for life. In fact, the lens remains intraocular, and therefore does not give any type of symptom or pain. And the surgery itself is a surgery that nowadays is performed only with topical anaesthesia, that is, with drops of anaesthetic. It is a surgery that is not painful. Obviously, you will feel some pressure that we will warn you about, but it is not a painful situation.