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Name: don meissner
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Date: Around 1993
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Is there any other treatment for cataracts of the eye lens besides taking the lens out surgically? I thought I had heard about some chemical intervention that dissolved the opacity.


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I think I have heard of that too but I am not sure of how well it works and technically it would still be considered a surgical procedure since I think a needle is still required to inject the chemical into the lens.

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