Mission Hill, South Dakota - Demographics. 1  As of the census [3] of 2010, there were 177 people, 69 households, and 51 families residing in the town.
A: Tremendously. In the early days of cataract surgery, the only thing that surgeons could do was remove the cloudy lens. Without a lens inside their eye, patients had to wear very thick âCoke bottleâ glasses to see.The most important change has been the development and improvement of artificial replacement lenses.: Tremendously. In the early days of cataract surgery, the only thing that surgeons could do was remove the cloudy lens. Without a lens inside their eye, patients had to wear very thick âCoke bottleâ glasses to see.
In this interview, Dr. T. Hunter Newsom talks with Dr. Steven Vold about cataract surgery as an option for managing narrow angles and acute angle closure. In some cases, they bypass laser peripheral iridotomy and go straight to cataract surgery alone or in combination with endoscopic cylcophotocoagulation.