Table Comparing various surgeries and lenses

Surgery Type

Description

Surgery Cost

Remarks

Manual
Small Incision  Surgery

Evolution
over the earlier Extracapsular surgery, with smaller incision of 5-6 mm
rather than 10-12mm. The wound is sutured with heat, as opposed to being
stitched in case of Extracapsular.

Rs.6000-Rs.7000

As
effective as Phacoemusification; However recovery time is 1 month. The wound
is sutured by heat.

Phacoemulsification

Incision
size is 3 mm. Here the lens is emulsified with ultrasonic frequency
instrument. Also nucleus of lens is fragmented. A dual irrigation probe is
used to aspirate the remaining cortical material. A foldable lens is inserted.

Rs.
15000

Recovery
time is 1 week. The wound is self healing.

Phacoemulsification
with branded lens

Branded
lens such as Activa, Zeiss

Rs.
20,000, Rs 30,000

Normal
Indian lens used with Phacoemusification may be just as good.

Micro
Incision Cataract Surgery(MICS)

Very
similar to above described Phacoemusification surgery. The incision size
reduces from around 3 mm to around 2 mm a reduction of 0.6-0.8 mm

Rs.
40,000

Medical
opinion on this is divided. Some doctors cite advantage such as less astigmatism,
some point to the fact that size of incision does not reduce much and there could
be irregular healing and rough edges. May not be such a big leap over
Phacoemulsification with a big jump in cost

MICS
with multifocal lens

Multifocal
lens reduce spectacle dependency

Rs.
70,000

Apart
from leap in costs, multifocal lens reduce clarity with less contrast
sensitivity and haloes

These costs for normal for profit
hospital/clinic in Mumbai. Costs may vary from town to town.