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Developing a cataract is one of those unfortunate things that befall most of us as we age. Between the ages of 52 and 64, you have a 50% chance of having a cataract, but you probably won't experience any problems with
your vision until about 65. By 75, just about everyone has a cataract; and 50% of the people between 75 and 85 have lost some vision as a result.

Many generations have accepted poor vision in later years as an inevitable consequence of aging. But refinements incataract surgery procedures and technological advances in lens replacement have changed this assumption dramatically, at least in the United States, wherecataract surgery is the number one therapeutic surgical procedure performed on Americans 65 and older. Medicare pays $3.4 billion a year for 1 million of the 1.3 million cataract procedures performed annually.