Cataract surgery time

Cataract surgery has two ways, one is called small incision cataract extraction, there is a surgical method is phacoemulsification cataract extraction. Small incision cataract surgery is suitable for all cataract patients, but its operation time is relatively long, from the beginning of the operation to the end of the operation, about half an hour, the real operation time in 15 minutes to 20 minutes. Phacoemulsification is the most popular and widely used cataract surgery at this stage. The total operation time is about 15 minutes. The actual phacoemulsification surgery usually starts in 5 to 10 minutes. Some well-known experts can complete cataract extraction in less than 3 minutes.