What to Expect in Your Cataract Surgery Consultation

Updated: December 23, 2025

At ICON Eyecare, we’re committed to delivering high-quality cataract care tailored to your needs. When you begin your cataract surgery journey with us, you’ll experience a welcoming environment, patient-centered care to support your comfort and safety, and highly skilled eye doctors trained in advanced technologies and cataract surgery techniques to deliver outcomes you deserve 

Here’s what will happen during your cataract surgery consultation. 

Cataract Care That’s Tailored to Your Needs

When you visit ICON Eyecare for cataract and LASIK surgery in the Denver metro area to see if you’re a good candidate for cataract surgery, you get a higher standard of care. You might come for our patient-centric care that ensures you get the services and answers you need from all our staff in a welcoming and comfortable environment. Or, you may have heard about our eye doctors in the Denver metro area who employ advanced ophthalmological technologies and techniques for your comfort and excellent results.

Answering All Your Questions

For our cataract surgery patients, the excellence of our top eye doctors in the Front Range shows when you visit for your consultation. An initial cataract surgery evaluation involves talking with one of our top eye doctors in the Denver metro area and exchanging information that makes your eye surgery the best it can be. Vision correction surgeons, or ophthalmologists, want to know about your medical history, family medical history, vision problems, results from recent vision and diagnostic tests, and any eye conditions you have. In some cases, timely cataract surgery will enable other doctors to see and treat conditions such as retina issues. We’ll also ask about how your vision impacts your lifestyle.

When Our Doctors Work with You, It’s Easier to Relax and Look Forward to Great Results

As the doctor gets to know you, it’s an opportunity for you to ask about the procedure, consider any choices such as the type of lens that’s implanted in place of the cloudy natural one that’s removed, and become familiar with the things you need to do to prepare for surgery and recover well afterwards.

Specifically, What Will Happen at a Cataract Surgery Consultation?

Cataract surgery is typically brief, about 20 minutes, with only local anesthesia. In preparation, the doctor checks your eye health with familiar tests commonly used in a comprehensive eye exam.

Typically, these tests are performed before vision correction surgery during your cataract evaluation:

• Medical history review — Checking your health, both specific to your eye and your overall health, before surgery.
• Visual acuity test — Reading the chart of letters, or an equivalent test.
• Slit-lamp exam — Illuminated examination of your eye’s structures, such as the cornea, iris, lens, and space between the iris and cornea.
• Retinal exam — A dilated eye exam that includes examination of your eye’s lens, which, in the case of cataracts, will be cloudy.
• Tonometry testing — A check of your internal eye pressure.

You’ll talk with the doctor about your eyes and vision outcome goals and expectations. These days, several types of replacement lenses, called intraocular lenses (IOLs) because they replace your natural lens in the eye, are available in addition to the standard artificial lens. They’re all comfortable and provide great and clear vision, but there are different options for focal ranges that can limit the amount of time you need to wear glasses, whether it’s for reading or golf.

After this consultation, you and your cataract surgeon will begin developing a treatment plan and your surgeon will discuss possible complications associated with cataract surgery before the actual outpatient procedure.

Enhancing Seniors’ Vision for Enjoyment of Life

Vision correction surgery for cataracts is one of the most common surgeries performed each year in the U.S. and is proven to be safe and effective. Our team of top eye doctors in the Front Range looks forward to serving you. 

Take the Next Step Toward Clear Vision:

Take our cataract self-test to see if it’s time for an evaluation.

Schedule your cataract surgery consultation with Colorado’s cataract experts today.

Let’s help you restore your vision and enjoy life to the fullest.