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EP 648: Vision Clouded by Age-Related Eye Conditions? See Your Options Clearly with Dr. Ravi Patel of Eye Associates of Central Texas

• Dr. Sandeep Mistry and Donna Lee

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In this episode, Dr. Mistry and Donna Lee are joined by ophthamologist Dr. Ravi Patel to discuss some of the most common age-related eye conditions and the cutting edge treatments he uses to help restore his patients' vision. Whether you have advanced cataracts and aren't sure what your options are, or have dry eyes and don't understand why eye drops aren't helping, this episode is for you! Dr. Patel explains which patients are good candidates for laser eye surgery, the difference between wet and dry macular degeneration, what to expect from a corneal transplant, and more! To contact Dr. Patel, call Eye Associates of Central Texas at 512-244-1991 or visit them online today. 

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Dr. Mistry is a board-certified urologist and has been treating patients in the Austin and Greater Williamson County area since he started his private practice in 2007.

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Speaker 1:

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Speaker 2:

Welcome to the Armor Men's Health Show with Dr. Mystery and Donna Lee.

Speaker 3:

Hello, this is Dr. Mystery host of the Armor Men's Health Show. Joined every week by my co-host Donna Lee.

Speaker 4:

That's right. You know, I can do this show without you. Sometimes

Speaker 3:

You do the show without me. Sometimes <laugh> , and I think they get more listeners maybe.

Speaker 4:

But you're so busy sometimes, and you have all the six children and two grandchildren. I mean, and you're a surgeon. I'm

Speaker 3:

An amazing person. <laugh>.

Speaker 4:

And you see children.

Speaker 3:

This is a men's health show. I'm a board certified urologist. And this show is brought to you by the practice I started in 2007. N A u Urology specialist. Mm-hmm. <affirmative> . We have four physicians growing to six. Soon we have six advanced practice providers, two physical therapists, a nutritionist, a sex therapist, and a strong commitment to taking care of you from your nipples to your knees , to your knees , to your knees. Knees . Donna, how do people get ahold of us and make an appointment with us if they want to get their holistic urology appointment? That's

Speaker 4:

Right. Holistic urology. I love it. It's 5 1 2 2 3 8 0 7 6 2. Our website is armor men's health.com. And you know what? We got a really busy podcast.

Speaker 3:

We do have a really busy podcast. So you can listen to them , can catch up on previous episodes.

Speaker 4:

That's right. Spotify, iHeartRadio, all the podcast sites. Listen to wherever you listen to free podcasts.

Speaker 3:

So I became a urologist because I like playing with balls. Yeah.

Speaker 4:

And penises. And the peepees

Speaker 3:

And Peepees. People always wonder, do I really enjoy playing with balls? You really do. And the answer is, I love operating and I love operating on testicles. I

Speaker 4:

Think we scared away half the audience at this

Speaker 3:

Point. That's right. But you know, there are a couple of balls that I don't play with.

Speaker 4:

I know. Wha what

Speaker 3:

Kind of ball is it ?

Speaker 4:

Eyeballs.

Speaker 3:

Eyeballs.

Speaker 5:

Oh man , <laugh> .

Speaker 3:

So today we're joined by one of our newest friends, Dr. Ravi Patel. He's with Eye Associates of Central Texas. Dr. Patel. Uh , so sorry that you didn't know what to expect, but welcome.

Speaker 5:

Oh , thank you for having me. Actually, I knew to expect that 'cause I've listened to a bunch of your podcasts at this point.

Speaker 3:

Well ,

Speaker 4:

That's great. He's not scared . That's great.

Speaker 3:

So , so, Dr . Patel, you're an ophthalmologist. First of all, can you spell ophthalmology? <laugh> .

Speaker 5:

There's uh , two H's in there, actually at three. I mean , uh, do you actually want me to spell ophthalmology? There's two Hs.

Speaker 3:

Yeah , go ahead. Let's

Speaker 5:

See. Oh , okay. <laugh> , O P H T h. Most people forget that First H after the p. Mm-hmm . <affirmative> , then all , I mean A l m o l o g i S D. Nice . That's

Speaker 3:

Pretty good. He , he passed the test spelling b . Nice job. So , uh, an ophthalmologist is an actual medical doctor, is that correct?

Speaker 5:

That is correct. I think

Speaker 4:

An eye dentist .

Speaker 5:

Okay . Yeah , that a lot of my friends call me an eye dentist . We're fairly far removed from the rest of general medicine, but yes, we are in fact medical doctors.

Speaker 3:

How is an ophthalmologist different than an optometrist in terms of education and scope of work?

Speaker 5:

Yeah, okay. That's a good question. So , um, yeah, ophthalmologists go through medical school and then we still go through a , a year of general , uh, year training, either internal medicine or surgical residency, and then finish a three year , you know, medical surgical residency. Whereas optometrists , uh, once they graduate from college, they can go straight into optometry school where they focus a lot on, I , I think they'll, they would call it general eyecare, if you will. So a lot of that is glasses and contacts. And then there are some routine medical things they'll do. Optometrist, schools are changing though that I think there're starting to do like this additional year of , I think they call it a residency actually, where they'll do a little more in depth on the medical side. 'cause it's depending on the school, they may not get as much of that.

Speaker 3:

So after medical school, you did four years of residency and then you went beyond. You, you didn't go to Baylor College of Medicine, correct? I

Speaker 5:

Did . My partners did, but I did not go to Baylor . I will still listen to you a

Speaker 4:

Little bit. Boy . Hey, I have a quick question. Do ophthalmologists make fun of optometrists?

Speaker 5:

No.

Speaker 4:

'cause there's more letters in there .

Speaker 5:

No, we're definitely not. We gotta play nice and capable . They're equal . Okay. Sorry,

Speaker 3:

Go ahead . Yeah . Yeah . That's not nice. No . The eyes' is a very small place to fight. <laugh> . Yeah , that's right. That's right. <laugh> . So , um, after residency you also went to , um, an amazing place for your, your, your fellowship. Bascom Palmer , uh, eye Institute is where I took my own son to get his , uh, posis surgery fixed when he was , uh, just a little kid , uh, to tell us about that place and what it was it like doing your fellowship there.

Speaker 5:

Oh, wow. I'm surprised you know what that is. Uh, yeah. So Bascom Palmer we're

Speaker 4:

Professionals, sir .

Speaker 5:

Yeah, I read my bio then . Well, I guess you've been there. So <laugh> . Um , yeah, it's a very, very big eye hospital in Miami. You think an eye clinic could be a small like room, but this is actually a sixth floor building with each <inaudible> having its own floor. And so it's the sort of the mecca of tertiary care , um, beyond Florida, people flying in all over the place to get some sort of zebra diagnosis managed there. Uh , so, and

Speaker 3:

It's because Florida has a lot of old people and old people have lots of eye problems.

Speaker 5:

Well , that is true.

Speaker 3:

So I wannas talk about, I wanna talk about, we should, we should combine mm-hmm . <affirmative> . That's right.

Speaker 4:

The eye in penis clinic featuring Dr . And Dr. Patel. That does

Speaker 3:

Remind me of a funny story. My son needed a circumcision at the same time. And so I asked the bascom Palmer guys, if somebody come into a circumcision, they were like, our operating rooms are not equipped with circumcisions, <laugh>, <laugh> . We just do eyes here. Uh, so , um, uh, what , as people age , uh, why don't you tell us some of the most common eye conditions of aging that , that you're gonna see in your clinic? Yeah,

Speaker 5:

So , um, I would say there's probably five main things , uh, that we sort of start seeing as we get older. One was more related to a medical diagnoses, but just to list them , there's cataracts that unfortunately happens to all of us just as we get older. It's just the nature of the lens.

Speaker 3:

That's , that's when the lens inside your eye gets kind of fuzzy. Right, exactly.

Speaker 5:

Right. The protein starts to cloud up and it slowly causes a blurriness to your vision.

Speaker 3:

So a as you're looking at bright lights or driving at night, maybe you're gonna see it le less, less focused and more blurry.

Speaker 5:

Yeah. One of the first symptoms people will get is difficulty driving at night because the lights themselves sort of causes light scattered in the eye. And so you would interpret that as glare and the lines and stuff might be harder for you to distinguish. It's actually probably one of the earliest symptoms people get. And , uh, one of the bigger reasons we do cataract surgery. 'cause cataract surgery, fortunately is fairly good at fixing that problem.

Speaker 3:

What

Speaker 5:

Else? Um, yeah , so also see things like mac degeneration. Now not everybody gets that one, but that's a condition where your retina starts to deteriorate as you get older. Um, that affects, you know, millions of Americans. Actually,

Speaker 3:

My, my , my , my grandfather had macular degeneration. There's a wet kind and a dry kind. What's the difference between the two? Yeah,

Speaker 5:

So , uh, most people , everyone really, everyone starts off with the dry kind. I'd say maybe 90, 95% stay in the dry kind , but a small percentage do convert to the wet kind . And effectively what that means, that these blood vessels in the back of the eye kind of break through the retinal layers and they start either leaking fluid or sometimes even blood into the retina, which causes a significant drop in one's vision. Mm-hmm . <affirmative> ,

Speaker 3:

This ruined his life because he couldn't read and do the things that he wanted to do. But, but there are treatments now for both dry and wet macular degeneration that wouldn't have been in existence 15 or 20 years ago. Is that right?

Speaker 5:

Yes, that is true. So , uh, there've been , uh, treatments for wet macular degeneration for a while now. Uh, they're all effectively injections at this point that cause regression of those blood vessels. And by those sort of leaving the retina, you get an improvement in the amount of fluid, which should improve vision. Now it doesn't get you back to being a normal, you know, 2020 type patient, if you will, but it does improve the vision. The , the downside is, unfortunately you have to keep doing those injections. In a lot of cases, if you were to stop the, the fluid would just return.

Speaker 3:

If I had to take a poll . Do you think a man would rather have an injection into his eyeball or his real balls?

Speaker 5:

Hmm . Oh, eyeball. Eyeball. Yeah .

Speaker 3:

I don't , I don't know why. I don't know , man. I don't know. If I

Speaker 4:

Had a penis, I'd want you to go into

Speaker 3:

My balls. That sounds frightening. Don't mess with my eyes. I hope you just turn off the lights before you inject. Please . <laugh> .

Speaker 5:

You , you don't want your surgeon to look <laugh> , you

Speaker 3:

Don't crap. That's right. You have to see you all . So you named two of them . What else? What are the other three?

Speaker 5:

Uh, so , uh, glaucoma's another big one that, again, it doesn't happen to everyone, but can happen as we get older.

Speaker 3:

And that's too much eye pressure, right? Because there's too much fluid in there. Well ,

Speaker 5:

Sort of , uh, but you know , pressure's sort of a loaded piece of glaucoma. It's the only modifiable piece of glaucoma. Um, and so you can have normal eye pressure and still have

Speaker 3:

Glaucoma. I didn't know that. Okay.

Speaker 5:

Yeah, that one's called normal pressure glaucoma. Yeah , that's , so they got really creative with that name <laugh> . But yeah. Uh , pressure , basically the idea is that high eye pressure translates to sort of pressure on the optic nerve, which damages it over time. And those nerves start dying, which leads to, at the beginning, peripheral vision loss, but ultimately can lead to central vision loss and blindness.

Speaker 3:

Is that the puff of air that the guy will puff into my eye? Yeah,

Speaker 5:

They're checking your eye pressure. Hopefully they're not doing puff of airs anymore. Most people

Speaker 3:

Sort of , they , they aren't. No, no .

Speaker 5:

Usually people like numb your eye and do what's called application where this device touches your eye to actually really?

Speaker 4:

That was so 2010. Really ? Oh my god. I mean, they don't do that

Speaker 3:

Anymore . I think my optometrist is just giving me like some messages. Yes .

Speaker 5:

Are you still getting a puff of maybe , maybe they are , maybe optometrists still doing puff of airs ? Most

Speaker 3:

Of us are . Well , I think that's hitting on me. Okay . <laugh> , uh, well what are the other two? They're puffing your penis. Uh , Betty's not doing, he's a penis puff . If you're going to the optometrist and you have to take off your pants, there's something wrong . There's something wrong .

Speaker 4:

Wrong .

Speaker 5:

Yeah .

Speaker 3:

Yeah . Um , or right.

Speaker 5:

I guess another one, and this is actually born prominent in Texas, is actually just dry eyes. Um , that's actually extremely common. It's actually common in younger age groups as

Speaker 3:

Well. I think you're just making that crap up now.

Speaker 5:

Dry eyes. Well, I think everyone else thinks it's made up too, actually . Yeah .

Speaker 3:

Yeah . I think I , you're just making up.

Speaker 5:

Yeah . I'd say most people complain when those people complain about some discomfort of their eyes. It's usually just dryness and they just need to put drops in. But I mean, dryness can be severe. It can actually also be a blinding problem, but that's very, very rare. You'd need some sort of underlying like medical condition like wrappers association like that.

Speaker 3:

So , so what you're saying is that, is that there are people that have a medical level of dry eyes and there are both all over the counter as well as prescriptive eyedrops for that kind of thing, right? Oh

Speaker 5:

Yeah, yeah, absolutely. So, you know, my cornea training, maybe I've sort of gathered a lot of dry eye patients. I would say this is the main medical condition I treat in my clinic, actually just because of my background training. But dry eyes is actually a really, really tricky , uh, condition to treat because all the treatments out there aren't really curative and I would say they're not all the most effective. Um, and so it ends up being a very complicated puzzle to try to get the right treatment going for a patient to get their symptoms stabilized. Even then , it's what they understanding that as they get older, it's likely gonna start getting a little worse. A little worse.

Speaker 3:

Yeah . What's number five? Gosh ,

Speaker 5:

I now I'm like having to think back . What did I say? Oh, diabetic retinopathy, <laugh> . Okay. So that's what I meant by medical condition. It's pretty common as you get older. Just, you know , diabetic retinopathy usually isn't a function of your acute control. It's actually more correlated to how long you've had the condition. Just that long term of having the fluctuation of the blood glucose , damage , blood and

Speaker 3:

Vessel , it can make you blind, right?

Speaker 5:

Yeah, exactly. Right. Yeah. And so I'm sure , uh, diabetes actually probably plays a role in your clinic as well with Ed and the heart doctors getting , you know,

Speaker 3:

You just stay in your lane, buddy. <laugh> , you stay with your eyeballs, you eye dentist . Don't you worry about your,

Speaker 5:

I gotta show up . I know more than just about eyes, right? I can't be an eye dentist here .

Speaker 3:

Well, Dr . Ravi Patel, you're with Eye Associates of Central Texas. How does somebody make an appointment with you?

Speaker 5:

Yeah, so they , they can obviously just call our number during our , uh, office hours. It's 5 1 2 2 4 4 1 9 9 1 . Or just go to our website, i associates texas.com.

Speaker 3:

Well, thank you so much for joining us. And Donna, how do people get ahold of us? You can

Speaker 4:

Call us at (512) 238-0762 or visit our website, armor men's health.com and check out our podcast wherever you listen to free podcasts.

Speaker 3:

Hello and welcome to the Armor Men's Health Show. I'm Dr. Mystery , your host, board certified urologist and very proud purveyor of knowledge when it comes to men's health. But I couldn't do without my lovely co-host Donnel Lee , who

Speaker 4:

Knows nothing about men's health. Hello everybody.

Speaker 3:

<laugh>, you've made a lot of men's lives. Terrible though. I

Speaker 4:

Have because I make them go to the urologist

Speaker 3:

<laugh> . That's right. <laugh>. Donna, you're one of our most important spokespeople and you communicate a lot with the patients and listeners that , uh, try to contact us for appointments and things like that. Mm-hmm. <affirmative> , um, you , we've, we've gotten great feedback. And what's some advice you'd give to somebody out there that's contemplating visiting a urologist? Uh,

Speaker 4:

To pick the provider with the smallest hands if they're having prostate issues? That's

Speaker 3:

Correct.

Speaker 4:

And to come with an open mind. I think we educate our patients really well through the show and through marketing that they're going to , um, be connected with a holistic provider. More times than not, we're gonna talk about lifestyle management supplements. How's your sleep? We're gonna do all these amazing, fun things that other urology groups might not do. And

Speaker 3:

I think that you should know, you know, as a patient that not all doctors are made the same. There are, you are certainly going to get a different level of care depending on the expertise and the interest level of the doctor that you're going to see. And so if you're dissatisfied with your urologic care, we would love to see you as a second opinion. If you've been diagnosed with prostate cancer, you certainly should always consider getting a second opinion. If you are go undergoing a major prostate surgery for an enlarged prostate, or you're , uh, dissatisfied with your ED or testosterone therapy, we would love to see you as a second opinion. Donna, how do people get ahold of us?

Speaker 4:

You can call us at (512) 238-0762 . I've been asked to slow that down. You know , uh, our website is armor men's health.com and you can find any of our podcasts on the topic that you'd like. So let's say you wanna talk about enlarged penis. You can google enlarged penis , um, armor Men's health show, and you'll find the podcast.

Speaker 3:

Ironically, they're gonna see my picture and

Speaker 4:

They'll <laugh> . There's Dr. Ger , this huge penis <laugh>.

Speaker 3:

We we're joined once again by one of our good friends, Dr. Robbie Patel with I Associates of Central Texas. Dr. Patel, thank you so much for joining us. You're welcome. Thank

Speaker 5:

You for having me. So ,

Speaker 3:

Um, as I'm getting older and I , I , I've had glasses for, for many, many years, and I feel like increasingly , uh, a life of wearing glasses is something that's going to be kind of in the past. Mm-hmm . So , uh, I'd love to talk to you a little bit about , uh, vision correction surgery, whether it be Lasix or as you get older , uh, kind of lens replacement surgery and kind of what's new out there. And , uh, le let's talk about LASIK first. So Lasik's been around for a while . Ha Has it really changed at all? Uh,

Speaker 5:

There are some new iterations of , uh, laser eye surgery coming out. Um, there's a new procedure called SMILE that some practices are starting to adopt. It's, you know, with , with lasik what we're doing is we're cutting a flap into your cornea, lifting that flat up, and then doing the actual second laser. Do the corrective procedure to reshape your cornea and lay the flap back down. What

Speaker 3:

Is the cornea?

Speaker 5:

The cornea is the clear structure in front. Uh, it's like a clear dome in the front of your eye. It's over the iris in the pupil. That's where the majority of the refractive power of your eye comes in, is actually in the cornea. What's

Speaker 4:

The flap?

Speaker 5:

So the , when we have a corneas, it's about 550 microns or so. Uh, you know, the, the layer, the surface layer is called the epithelium. That's kind of constantly being replaced, but that's not making natural shape of your eye. Mm-hmm. <affirmative> . And so the stroma , the structure underneath is, and so what we have to do is cut a flap to remove that top layer. We get to the meat of the cornea, and then we laser it to reshape the whole cornea to whatever your prescriptive power should be. And that when that flap lays down on top of it, it just takes on that shape giving you your new shape and your new vision. Oh ,

Speaker 4:

Nice.

Speaker 5:

Um,

Speaker 3:

And so , uh, how long does the procedure take? Oh ,

Speaker 5:

Probably about 10 minutes. An eye. It's, that's , it's not very long actually . Wow.

Speaker 3:

And that's what she said . So , uh, the procedure itself does not take a , a , a long time. And, and who , um, who benefits the most from a LASIK operation , uh, versus something more invasive? Say.

Speaker 5:

Yeah, good question. So lasik uh, procedures are definitely much more beneficial to the younger crowd. So when I say younger, I mean like probably around 18 to 35 to 40 or so. And the reason that is, is that when you're younger, your , your eye has a lens inside of it that can still change shapes. It's in a process called accommodation. So resting state, your eye should be focused out fully to the distance. We say 20 feet and beyond. And then when you , you put your hand in front of you, the , the muscles in your eye change the lens shape to focus up close. If I do LASIK and get rid of your glasses, set you perfectly to the distance when you're younger, I expect you to have a full range of perfect vision really. But let's say you to try to get LASIK done in your fifties where your lens has gone through a change now where it's losing that ability to accommodate, it's losing the ability to change its shape. And so if I set your vision perfectly, the distance, you'd probably be happy with your distance vision, but you'll no longer be able to read up close and you'll have to get reading glasses. And so LASIK won't necessarily get people out of needing glasses at older ages. Thus it becomes a little bit less

Speaker 3:

Effective. And so , um, you know , uh, there , there were concerns in the past about buzziness or other kind of complications from lasik. What are the, the top complications you educate your patients about when they're contemplating LASIK surgery?

Speaker 5:

Oh , mainly dry eyes , actually. That's the number one thing. You know , a lot of folks after they get LASIK duct , we'll complain about dry eyes for about a year or so. There's a lot of studies showing that as they age, they're much more likely to end up with more significant dry eyes than a person who had never had LASIK done in their thirties. And , and just my background, I end up seeing a lot of folks with dry eyes. Some of that can be really difficult to treat. And so I, I definitely spend a long time talking about dry eyes with any patient prior to doing any kind of refractive

Speaker 3:

Procedure. And you won't do it in anybody under 18 or will you do it in like teenagers as well?

Speaker 5:

No, it's not FDA approved for that. Um, but also I would, I actually don't do it anyone under like low twenties actually. Really? Okay. Because the idea is that at 18 you're not necessarily done shifting in terms of your overall prescription. And so you don't wanna be doing a permanent procedure, if you will, on a moving target. Mm-hmm . And so one of the things that qualify is showing stability in neuro fraction, but just statistically speaking, you can be stable for a year or two but then not be stable two years down the line. And so I like to wait really in the early twenties or mid twenties before I start offering lasik. Probably early twenties if I'm being honest about that. But yeah, so I think waiting a little bit's probably beneficial just 'cause you get , in my opinion, a longer lasting result out of it.

Speaker 3:

Is there any way to test whether or not your lens can still accommodate to see if even an older person would be a candidate for lasik?

Speaker 5:

Yeah, I mean , um, I get if you put contact lenses in, or even with your glasses, if you just get single vision distance glasses, if you're still able to read up close with them on, that means you still can't accommodate. 'cause your , your prescriptive power is really meant to give you perfect distance vision unless you're wearing a bifocal or progressive glasses or a multifocal contact lens. So for most folks, if you have single vision , uh, correction, you're actually setting your eyes for distance. And if you're able to read through that, you actually all are still accommodating. But , uh, just know it's a , it's a time bomb, meaning in the sense that as you get older in your forties, you're gonna start losing that ability.

Speaker 3:

So now I think it's a little unfair that my dad doesn't have to wear glasses <laugh> .

Speaker 5:

Oh , because ,

Speaker 3:

Because he got his eyes fixed when he got his cataracts done . Oh . So why don't you talk to us about like the new generation of cataract surgery because I feel like with an aging population, everybody's getting their cataracts fixed nowadays and all my surgical or time is being taken up by you people that are taking it up, doing 40 cataracts a day. So talk to us about cataract surgery.

Speaker 5:

Yeah. Okay. So with cataract surgery, what we're effectively doing is going in your eye, taking a cloudy lens out and replacing it with the clear plastic lens. And I'd say most of the advances happening in the space are actually happening with what type of lens implant we're placing back in one's eye. Traditionally, there's been this paradigm of having to choose between quantity or quality of vision. What I mean by that is that the, you know, the traditional basic lens implant is a monofocal lens, meaning you get one focus point. And so we can set you a , as an example out for distance again, but that lens implant also isn't flexible. So in when the standard lens implant, you'd be forced to wear reading glasses. You'd have high quality vision, but low quantity in terms of range. Hmm . Um, and so what folks have been doing to try to give more qua quantity is what's called the multifocal lenses . I, my guess is that's what your dad probably got, but that's a lens that effectively splits the lighter , you know , it's called defractive optics and it gives you a distance , uh, focus point, mid-range and near. And so more or less you can get the whole range of vision. But to achieve that, you have to sacrifice a little bit of the quality of your vision. And I think most people will notice that at nighttime when they're driving car headlights would start having this starbursting glare pattern coming off of it. And that's just the physics and of the optics of that lens. Uh, but newer lenses are coming out to try and maintain the quality of the vision and still provide more quantity if you will .

Speaker 3:

Now a lot of these things are covered by insurance and some things are not covered. So, so if somebody's out there and they're thinking to themselves that they're gonna go get cataracts and come out with perfect vision and uh, uncle Sam's gonna pay for it, that they may be a little bit surprised.

Speaker 5:

Yes. No, uncle Sam will only pay for that first option that I talked about. They, they view all the other nicer lens, if you will, as cosmetic. 'cause they know there is a base option that will give you excellent vision with glasses in terms of the rest of your range. And so they won't cover any of what we call premium IOLs. Those can range . That's

Speaker 4:

Just the man keeping us down.

Speaker 3:

<laugh> man's keeping us , but luckily they still cover penile implants and our Viagra Shut up. <laugh>

Speaker 4:

Just shut up with

Speaker 3:

That. <laugh> . So <laugh> , when it comes to cataract surgery , uh, h how long is the surgery? Uh, and how, how quick is the recovery?

Speaker 5:

Yeah, the surgery probably only takes me about five to maybe it's a tough case . 10 minutes to do. It's a pretty quick procedure. He's

Speaker 4:

Got a tough life . He has these five minute procedures all day. Trust me.

Speaker 3:

<laugh> no real surgeon considers an ophthalmologist a surgeon, <laugh> .

Speaker 4:

Oh, I opened that story . Well ,

Speaker 5:

We do like 20 to 25. We do a lot of 'em . That to take up , take up your or time <laugh> . Oh

Speaker 3:

No's lot . Still making a , a one o'clock due time . <laugh> ,

Speaker 5:

That would be true. <laugh> . Um, yeah, but the recovery's fast. Most people see better the next day. Actually sometimes it can take two to three days or so, but when we say the full heel time's about a month. Um , but the visual recovery is very, very quick.

Speaker 3:

And how long will you wait between eyes?

Speaker 5:

I only wait a week between eyes actually. Hmm . Um, you can't do 'em on the same day. There's some risk associated with that and I , I don't think insurance would even cover that truthfully. So most people wait either one to two weeks between eyes .

Speaker 3:

And how much can somebody , uh, expect to pay for that premium i o l to look and feel Great ?

Speaker 5:

Yeah . Varies by practice truthfully , but can be generally I just ballpark to a few thousand dollars. Mm-hmm .

Speaker 3:

<affirmative> . Okay. Well thank you so much. Uh , Dr. Ravi Patel with I Associates of Central Texas. If people are looking to look better and feel better, how do they get an appointment with you?

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Yeah , um, they can go to our website, i associates of texas.com or just give us a call during business hours. Our number 5 1 2 2 4 4 1 9 9 1.

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And if you have problems with your other balls, your non eyeballs mm-hmm. <affirmative> , how do they get an appointment with us? Donna,

Speaker 4:

You can call us at (512) 238-0762 and visit our website, armor men's health.com.

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